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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 …

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 …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

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. …

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 …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

Oppo Beats Gionee and Adds Motors to N Series

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China’s Gionee’s S5.1 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 39) didn’t hold on to its title of ‘world’s thinnest smartphone’ for long. Domestic rival Oppo has beaten the 5.1mm phone with its Oppo R5, which …

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

China Works to Replace Windows, OSX and Android

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The People’s Post and Telecommunications News, of China, says that an OS to rival those from Microsoft, Google and Apple could be deployed by October. The paper quoted the head of an official OS …

LG Snips Features for Lower Price

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A new variant on LG’s G3 smartphone is now available in the USA. The G3 Vigor (on AT&T) loses several features, such as the replaceable battery, DLNA and wireless charging, for a smaller form …

Samsung Warns of 60% Fall in Profit

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Samsung says that it expects third quarter operating profit to be approximately KRW4.1 trillion ($3.8 billion), 60% lower than Q3 of last year and the fourth consecutive quarter of declines. Revenue for the period …