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Project Ara Prototype On Show in January

by Super User

Project Ara is a modular smartphone concept; it was initially devised by Motorola and is being worked on by Google (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 48). Project lead Paul Eremenko has announced (http://tinyurl.com/mev2rvr) two …

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Rumour: Sony Developing Metal-Body Smartphones

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Sources in the Taiwan supply chain claim that Sony is developing smartphones (plural) with a metal-alloy chassis. These phones will be produced by Foxconn, with the chassis likely to be supplied by Foxconn Technology. …

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Flexible Phones Next Year, Says Smartkem

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Flexible smartphones will be available by ‘late 2015’, according to UK-based organic semiconductor materials supplier Smartkem. Mike Cowin, head of strategic marketing, told Mobile Today that this year’s fixed-curve models are “just the beginning… …

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Lenovo to Set-Up Online Phone Firm in China

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Lenovo says it will establish a dedicated mobile phone company in China to sell its devices online. The new company, which will not carry the Lenovo brand or name, will become operational on 1st …

Rumour: Sony Changes Flagship Introduction

by Super User

Recently (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42), it was said that Sony Mobile was looking to withdraw from the smartphone business in emerging markets. Now sources in the Taiwan supply chain say that the …

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Eyedak Uses Smartphone as Screen

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Eyedak, a company based in Scotland, is developing a VR headset called Vrase, to compete with the Oculus Rift and Sony’s Morpheus. Like Samsung’s (rumoured) Gear VR headset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 28), …

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HTC Will Extend M8 Brand to New Flagship

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A new HTC flagship smartphone, the M8 Life, will be launched in Q4’14, Chinese media claims. The phone will apparently feature a 5.5″ display with 2048 x 1536 resolution and a 2.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon …

960 x 540 is New Nokia Resolution

by Super User

A dual-SIM Windows Phone smartphone from Nokia has passed through the USA’s FCC. The ‘RM-1090’ (or possibly RM-1091) is roughly the size of the Lumia 830, with a 5″ display and 960 x 540 …

Sharp’s UltraHD Smartphone Display Ready by 2016

by Super User

Sharp is developing an UltraHD smartphone display, according to China’s Tech Feng website. According to the source, demand from Chinese manufacturers is behind the move. The panel or panels, in 5″- 6″ sizes, will …

Google Preparing for Android One?

by Super User

A launch of Google’s Android One initiative, which aims to unify the fragmented OS in entry-level smartphones, may be approaching. Invitations have been sent to an event in India on 15th September. Google has …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 36

LG to Use In-House Processor

by Super User

A 5.9″ smartphone, using an application processor developed in-house, will be announced by LG before the end of the year. The claim comes from a Korean-language article in Money Today.

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Blackberry Returns to Classic Form Factor

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A leaked image, apparently of the Blackberry Classic smartphone, shows a return to the company’s traditional physical keyboard form factor. Image source N4BB claims that the phone will have a 3.5″ LCD screen; 720 …

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