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Laibao Looks to Smartphones

by Raverstead

Laibao Hi-Tech, a Chinese firm, currently produces glass-based touch panels. Next year, it has said that it will extend this production to film-based units for smartphones. The company is targeting monthly shipments of 2 …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Touch| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Low-End Smartphone Panels to See Rising Demand

by Raverstead

Asian sources say that panel makers are expecting high demand for smartphone panels with 960 x 540, 800 x 480 and 854 x 480 resolutions next year. Chinese vendors seeking to improve their low-cost …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 48

G Flex Mini’ Spotted in Factory Visit

by Raverstead

A journalist from Israeli website YNet recently visited LG’s phone factory in Korea, and appears to have spotted an unannounced model. The reporter wrote that it “seems like the G Flex…only smaller”. LG did …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 44

HTC Sees Bright Q4

by Raverstead

HTC’s sales in October dropped 5.8% sequentially but were 5% higher year on year at NT$15.7 billion ($513.3 million). Last month’s results brought sales so far this year to NT$155.8 billion ($5.1 billion), down …

Leak Shows ‘Microsoft Lumia’ RM-1090

by Raverstead

Microsoft has dropped the Nokia branding from its Lumia smartphones, and now images of the first ‘Microsoft Lumia’ handset have appeared online. Posted on Chinese social network Weibo, the images show a device referred …

SGP Chooses Extenso

by Raverstead

SGP Technologies has chosen Extenso Telecom to distribute its Blackphone Android smartphone in France.

Tags:France| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 49

Leaks Point to New Thin Phone

by Raverstead

News of a new Samsung phone, the Galaxy A7, has been leaked after being approved by China’s Telecommunication Equipment Certification Centre. According to the leak, the A7 – code-named the SM-A7009 – will have …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 48

Sony Mobile Ends Agora Partnership

by Raverstead

Agora DMT is no longer distributing Sony smartphones in the Czech Republic.

OnePlus Breaks Half a Million Sales on Sub-$500 Budget

by Raverstead

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has been hailed as 2014’s success story. Since launching its first device, the OnePlus One, in April, more than 500,000 units have been sold, co-founder Carl Pei told Forbes. These …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 44

TCCM Takes BenQ to CEE

by Raverstead

BenQ smartphones are now being distributed across the Central & Eastern Europe region by TCCM.

MDM Product Roundup Vol 21 Issue 43

by Super User

Various firms have confirmed Android 5.0 (Lollipop) will be arriving on their devices soon. The OS will be available on HTC’s One and One M8; Motorola’s Moto G (2013 and 2014, Moto X (2013 …

Kyocera Proteus: a “Wearable and Collapsible Smartphone”

by Helen Vince

Smartphones – It is easy to become fascinated by some of the high tech product concepts seen at exhibitions. The best of these are a blend of highly creative industrial design and technology that …