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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 …
Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 34
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
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
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 …
Tags:CPUs| Huawei| IFA 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 33
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
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 …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| OLEDs| Samsung| Smartphones| Testing| Vol 24 - Issue 32
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 …
Tags:IHS Markit| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Teardowns| Vol 24 - Issue 31
by Bob Raikes
Samsung held its much previewed launch event for the Note 8 and started by acknowledging the problems with the Note 7 and highlighting the positive feedback it got from many Note 7 users – …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 31
by Bob Raikes
Global sales of smartphones to end users reached 366.2 million units in the second quarter of 2017, a 6.7% increase over the second quarter of 2016, according to Gartner. In the smartphone operating system …
Tags:Gartner| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 31
by Bob Raikes
Filings with the FCC have confirmed that HTC will be making the smaller version of the Google Pixel 2 smartphone. The phone is also expected to have a feature called “Active Edge” which is …
Tags:Google| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 31
by Bob Raikes
Andy Rubin, one of the founders of Android (and who lead the project for eight years), is building a phone called “The Essential Phone”. We spotted an early brief review of the phone that …
Tags:Android| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 31
by Isaac Oburu
In a competition between other smartphone producers such as Samsung, Huawei, Sony, Honor and LG, Hangar18, a firm from Koprivnica, Croatia has won a prestigious award for the EISA Best Buy Smartphone 2017-2018. This …
Tags:Awards| Smartphones
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