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Is a Wide Color Gamut the Wrong Thing?

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent press release Corning and Healthe announced their collaboration on protecting eyes against damage from digital device blue light exposure. This collaboration is based on Healthe offering Eysafe covers for smartphones, tablets, …

Tags:Blue Light| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 40| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

The MovieMask Portable Cinema HMD

by Arthur Berman

MovieMask (Oslo, Norway) is developing the next offerings in the company’s “portable cinema” line of HMD products. The original idea behind the MovieMask was the thought that “today’s media consumption is more and more …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 40

Android Oreo has Colour Profile Support

by Bob Raikes

Android 8.0 (Oreo) has been released on the Pixel 2 (and will come on other devices). There has been a big change ‘behind the scenes’ to the architecture to use the same version across …

Tags:Android| Colour Management & Processing| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 39

ZTE Adds Dual Screen Phone

by Bob Raikes

ZTE has launched an unusual device, the Axon M which has dual 5.2″ IPS LCDs, each with FullHD, making an overall 6.9″ 1920 x 2160 resolution display. The screens are protected by Gorilla Glass …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 39| ZTE

Xiaomi Aiming for 90 Million Smartphone Shipments in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

Xiaomi has another target that it wants to achieve before the year is out. Following a statement earlier this month that Xiaomi is aiming to ship 30 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, CEO …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 39| Xiaomi

First Shipment of iPhone X Leaves Foxconn Factories

by Andrew Fenn

Foxconn is reported to have begun shipping the iPhone X. Chinese publication Xinhuanet.com reported that the first batch of 46,500 units is now en route to the Netherlands and United Arab Emirates. However, another …

Tags:Apple| Foxconn (Honhai)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Huawei Mate 10 Uses LCD, Mate 10 Pro uses OLED

by Bob Raikes

Huawei showed the Kirin 970 processor at the recent IFA show (IFA 2017: Huawei unveils Kirin 970) and has now released its first phones based on the chip, the Mate 10 and Mate 10 …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 39

TCL Communications Sells Off Half of Its Business

by Andrew Fenn

A year after its privatisation and less than a year after its manufacturing deal with BlackBerry, TCL Corp has announced it will sell 49% of its smartphone unit shares to three strategic investors for …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| TCL| Vol 24 - Issue 38

Apple Investigating Swollen Battery Issue on iPhone 8 Plus

by Andrew Fenn

Early adopters of Apple’s new iPhone 8 Plus have reported an issue involving the smartphone’s battery. Batteries are apparently swelling, causing the handset to split apart after a short period of use. The first …

Tags:Apple| Batteries| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 38

Microsoft Gives Up Windows Mobile

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has effectively abandoned the Windows Mobile operating system, with Joe Belfiore, a Microsoft executive responsible for Windows 10, has joined Bill Gates in adopting a phone with an Android operating system, citing the …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 38| Windows

Falling Asleep by Reading Books or Watching Videos?

by Kenneth Li

You might have heard many times from many people that reading a book is the best way to fall asleep. I am not a consistent book reader and I fall asleep quite easily with …

Tags:Blue Light| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 38

Asus Signs Excusive with Verizon

by Bob Raikes

Verizon in the US has done a deal with Asus to exclusively offer a new smartphone that has a dual curved edge 2.5D Gorilla glass design and features a 23 MP rear camera. The …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 38