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Strategy Analytics UX Expert Review: ZTE Nubia Z17

by Bob Raikes

Strategy Analytics has made a review of the latest premium flagship smartphone from ZTE, the Nubia Z17, which comes with fashionable bezel-less design and high-end specifications for its hardware. The Nubia has a 5.5″ …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 37| ZTE

Xiaomi Updates Mi Mix and Mi Note phablet

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has a new Mi Mix smartphone and a new Mi Note phablet. The new Mi Mix follows the same design concept as the previous version and uses an 18:9 display in a 6″ …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 34| Xiaomi

Samsung Note 8 Pre-Sales Highest Ever for Product Line

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung’s forthcoming phablet, the Note 8, is enjoying the highest pre-order figures the product line has ever seen, achieving 650,000 sales in five days, according to Reuters. Ahead of its release this Friday, the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 34

Chinese Handset Makers Look to LGD for OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Business Korea reports that four Chinese smartphone makers are planning to adopt flexible OLEDs from LG Display in new smartphones in 2018. Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi are all said to have confirmed plans …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 34

Moto Z2 Force: A Smartphone Without Gorilla Glass

by Ken Werner

Note: I am delighted to yield most of my space today to the distinguised technology journalist Barbara Krasnoff. I will return briefly after Barbara has had her say. — Ken Werner “Corning’s Gorilla Glass …

Tags:Glass| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 34

The Waiting’s Over:Apple Shows the X

by Bob Raikes

Much of the news from the Apple press event this week was not a surprise as there have been an uncharactertistic number of leaks. However, there were some surprises from the company in the …

YouTube HDR Now Available for Mobile

by Andrew Fenn

It’s been a year since YouTube added support for HDR through its apps for enabled Smart TVs — now smartphones are joining the club. Any smartphone that can decode Google’s VP9 Profile 2 is …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 33

Motorola – Shatterproof Display but Scratchproof, Not so Much

by Norbert Hildebrand

Don’t drop your smartphone was a very good advice if you didn’t plan on replacing your display prematurely, My family has a history of supporting a small business industry making their living by replacing …

Tags:Glass| Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 33

IFA 2017: Huawei unveils Kirin 970

by Milos Pavlovic

Huawei gave a keynote and had a big booth at the show, but the company told us that there were no new finished products on the booth. However, there was a new component, the …

OLED Panel Shipments Continued to Rise in Q2

by Andrew Fenn

OLED panel shipments for smartphones and televisions continued to rise in the second quarter of 2017. According to Ubi Research, smartphone panel shipments increased by 0.6% from the previous quarter, rising to 96.3 million …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Note 8 Pushes the State of Display Art Forward

by Bob Raikes

Last week, Samsung launched its much anticipated Note 8 flagship smartphone and our friend, Dr. Ray Soneira of DisplayMate, got an early chance to look at the display on the new handset and confirmed …

Note Could Push Phone Prices to $1,000

by Milos Pavlovic

IHS Markit analyst, Wayne Lam, has said that if the margins on the Note 8 are the same as previous Samsung Note phones, the retail price could be nearly $1,000, given the increase in …