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Samsung Receives Environmental Product Declaration for Galaxy S8 Panel

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung Display has announced that the OLED display featuring in its Galaxy S8 smartphone recently obtained an Environmental Product Declaration for the use of carbon, water, acidification and eutrophication. The declaration is part of …

Tags:Environment| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 13

LG G7 to Come in OLED and LCD Versions?

by Andrew Fenn

The LG G7, the company’s next flagship smartphone, will apparently come in two different models when it launches later this year according to Korean sources —one featuring an OLED screen and one with a …

Tags:LCD Panels| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Oppo Phones Use OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Oppo has released two new phones in China which both have 6.28″ FullHD+ OLEDs with full screens. The R15 has a MediaTek Helio P60 processor while the R15 Dream Mirror Edition uses a Snapdragon …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Apple

GS Reduces iPhone Forecast

by Bob Raikes

Goldman Sachs has downgraded its forecast for iPhone sales and expects 53 million sales in Q1 (down 1.7 million) and 40.3 million in Q2, down 3.2 million from its previous forecast. Over the whole …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Huawei Mate RS Flexible OLED Display Came from LG

by Andrew Fenn

Huawei has switched ithe supply of flexible OLED panels to LG Display for its new Porsche Design Mate RS smartphone, according to ET News of Korea. The new device runs Android 8.1 and features …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Huawei| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 13

US Consumers Deprived of Best Smartphone?

by Bob Raikes

We’ve published a day early this week as we have a public holiday on Friday in most of Europe. This week, there wasn’t one big story that dominated the news. Still, we managed to …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Security| Smartphones| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 12

LeEco Failure Hits Truly Profit

by Bob Raikes

We have reported on the struggles of LeEco to survive (LeEco Still Struggling to Survive) and now Truly Semiconductor has said that it will have to right off $71 million because of a doubtful …

Tags:Financial Data| LeEco (formerly LeTV)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Huawei P20 Pro Camera Impresses

by Bob Raikes

Huawei’s Consumer Business Group announced the P20 Series smartphone which features the world’s first Leica triple camera. There are two versions with 5.8″ (P20) and 6.1″ (P20 Pro) displays, both with 1080 x 2244 …

Tags:Cameras| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Camera Impresses DxOMark

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has launched its Mi Mix 2S Android smartphone that is based on a 5.99″ IPS LCD with 1080 x 2160 resolution (18:9) and using Gorilla Glass 4. The processor is a Snapdragon 845 …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 12| Xiaomi

Apple

Apple to Launch Foldable OLED Smartphone in 2020?

by Andrew Fenn

Apple may be working towards a 2020 launch for its own foldable OLED smartphone, according to Wamsi Moham, an analyst with Merrill Lynch, who met with the company’s suppliers in Asia recently. Moham reports …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 12

DSCC Releases Latest OLED Forecast

by Damir Lokas

DSCC released the forecast slides for the Q1’18 issue of its Quarterly OLED Shipment and Fab Utilization Report and said that it has revised the outlook for 2018 down by 22%, but still expects …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 11

IDC: APeJ Mobile Spending Expected to Be Over $540.7 Billion in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Spending on mobility solutions in the Asia Pacific excluding Japan region (APeJ) is expected to grow 5.3% year-on-year in 2018, reaching more than $540.7 billion, according to IDC. This growth is expected to continue …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 11