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LG Donates Smartphones to Help Fight Ebola

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2,000 smartphones are to be contributed to the UN, for use in combating the ebola outbreak in West Africa, by LG. The phones will be provided to UN healthcare and other key personnel in …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

Huawei’s Honor Brand Charges in to Europe

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Huawei’s Honor brand is available online only. Savings from this business strategy are said to be passed on to consumers directly. A new addition to the lineup is the Honor 6, available through Amazon …

Tags:3G & 4G| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Tesco Cancels Hudl Smartphone

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Tesco’s Hudl tablet was wildly popular last year, but the company has cancelled plans for a 4G smartphone under the same brand. Since the phone, apparently capable of challenging the Galaxy S5, was first …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Tesco| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Vivo IV Recognised as World’s Thinnest Phone…

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The Vivo IV, by Blu, was temporarily the world’s thinnest phone, certified by the Guiness Book of Records. Measuring just 5.5mm, it is on sale in the USA now. It was not developed solely …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

HTC Takes The Needle to a Smartphone

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A limited edition HTC One M8 has been created, in partnership with tattoo artists Lal Hardy and Cally-Jo Pothecary. HTC and the artists designed the phone to celebrate the company’s sponsorship of the MOBO …

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ZTE Aims to Climb Within USA Top 5

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Cheng Lixin, CEO of ZTE North America, has said that the company aims to double sales in the US market this year. That would put total device sales at 20 million units. The intent …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| ZTE

Vivo…Until Gionee Revamped its Own Product

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China’s Gionee has gone and outdone itself, beating its previous S5.5 smartphone (holding the record for the world’s thinnest model) with the 5.1mm-thick ELife S5.1 (thinner than my mousemat! – TA). Like the S5.5, …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Asus Expects Double Shipments Next Year

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Asus expecys to ship 16 million handsets next year, say supply chain sources: double the expected eight million shipments in 2014. Almost three million were shipped in Q3. The sources say that smartphone profits …

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Motorola Makes Big Battery Claims With Droid Turbo

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A new smartphone has been added to Motorola’s line of premium Droid-brand smartphones. The Droid Turbo will be available exclusively through Verizon in the USA, with a major selling point in its battery life. …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Smartphones| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Blackberry Porsche Design Raises Premium Partner Flag

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Meet Blackberry’s answer to the Note 4 and iPhone 6: the Porsche Design P’9983. Boasting a glass-weave rear, ‘glass-like’ keys on the keyboard, a sapphire lens on the rear camera and the Porsche logo, …

Tags:BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21

Gestures Detected Through GSM Reflections

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A research project at the University of Washington, called Sideswipe, demonstrates a way to control smartphones through gestures – without adding power-hungry components. Some smartphones today use cameras for 3D gesture sensing. However, they …

Tags:Gesture Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Competition to Cause Panel Price Drop

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According to reports from Asia, handset panel module prices are expected to fall more than 10% in Q4. The slump will be caused by competition for Chinese orders between vendors from Taiwan, China, Japan …

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