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Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro Has 5.7″ OLED

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has launched a new phone that will start to sell in China and has a 5.7″ FullHD Super AMOLED display. The phone uses an Octacore Snapdragon 625 with 4GB of RAM, and 64GB …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Samsung Refreshes A Series Phones – boosts QD Monitors

by Bob Raikes

Samsung refreshed its A3/A5/A7 range of smartphones at CES. They all have Super AMOLED displays in 4.7″ (HD), 5.2″ (FHD) and 5.5″ (FHD) and feature 3D glass with a metal frame. They use A-53 …

Tags:CES 2017| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Samsung To Explain Combustible Note 7s

by Yvette Raikes

Samsung was forced to recall its Note 7 handsets when some started catching fire. Initial replacements also proved combustible, so eventually there was a global recall and Samsung disabled all non-returned devices (Samsung Bricks …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 02| warranty

Global Handset Panel Shipments To Reach 2.93 Billion

by Yvette Raikes

Global handset panel shipments were 2.93 billion, up 4.9% YoY, according to a recent report from Shanghai, China-based Cinno Research. Of these 2.11 billion were for smartphones, up 16.4%, while the remaining 820 million …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Small & Medium Displays| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 02

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Asustek Smartphone Shipments to Double

by Yvette Raikes

Following the recent launch of the high-end ZenFone AR and ZenFone 3 Zoom at CES, Asustek plans to increase its smartphone shipments to between 35 and 40 million a year, which would give it …

Tags:Asus| CES 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Qualcomm Moves to 10nm with 820/821

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm held the first press event of the 2017 event, just before the ‘official’ opening event by the CTA. Keith Kressin started by saying that Qualcomm started by moving the mobile phone from analogue …

Tags:CES 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Semiconductors| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Smartphone Opportunities and ‘Price Gravity’

by Bob Raikes

The most important consumer device is now the smartphone, not the TV, and that means that there are lots of ways to exploit the investment of buyers. At CES, I saw a couple of …

Tags:Pricing| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Ingram To Sell Moto in Switzerland

by Milos Pavlovic

Ingram Micro in Switzerland will start to sell Lenovo’s Moto smartphones according to IT Reseller Schweiz.

Tags:Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 01

New Nokia 6 To Arrive in China

by Bob Raikes

The first launch since HMD Global acquired the rights to the Nokia brand for smartphones (Nokia Brand Back in Smartphones) will be called the ‘Nokia 6’, will be made by Foxconn and will be …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Samsung Plans 10 Million Galaxy S8s

by Bob Raikes

The ET News in Korea reports that Samsung is expected to make 10 million of its new S8s (tentative name) smartphones which are expected to be launched at MWC in February in the first …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Samsung to Upgrade Galaxy A Series with 12-Mp Front Camera

by Bob Raikes

ET News of Korea said that Samsung’s Galaxy A series (models A5 and A7) will be upgraded to include 12 megapixel front cameras and that the cameras will be significantly better. The A3 will …

Tags:Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 01