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Entry-level Smartphone Chip Sales Weak

by Bob Raikes

Reports from Asia say that orders for chips to be used in entry level phones have been dropping, while there is continued growth in demand for mid-range and higher end phones. This is the …

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Samsung May Try Folding Phones Before Flexible

by Bob Raikes

ETTimes of Korea has reported that Samsung is preparing two different approaches to the development of foldable smartphones, one with dual separate displays and another that uses a single flexible OLED. The separate display …

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Blackberry DTEK60 Ships

by Bob Raikes

Blackberry is now shipping the DTEK60 smartphone, an Android-based device with a 5.5″ OLED display made by TCL. (BlackBerry DTEK60 Launched)

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SA Photonics Shows High Brightness See-Thru Module

by Chris Chinnock

High performance HMD maker SA Photonics showed their range of monocular and binocular head-mounted Displays (HMDs) at I/ITSEC 2016. Of note was their new monocular see-thru module that features a new OLED panel from …

Nokia Brand Back in Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

The Nokia brand will appear on smartphones that will be run by HMD Global, under a deal that will last for ten years. The phones will appear in 2017 in two ranges and the …

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OLED to Move Down in Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

The ET Times of Korea reports data from UBI Research that forecasts that OLED penetration will reach 62% of the smartphone market by 2021 with LCD dropping back each year. Samsung is reported to …

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Ingram Micro Distributing TP-Link Smartphones

by Isaac Oburu

Ingram Micro has started to distribute TP-Link Neffos smartphones in France.

HTC Flat in Sales in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Reports from Taiwan say that HTC is not expecting increased sales revenues in 2017 because it is struggling to ramp up demand for the HTC Vive headset. Although it has signed up with Sprint …

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Developments in the Use of a Smartwatch to Detect Gestures

by Arthur Berman

A research team within the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pa) is developing a means to detect hand gestures through the use of an “instrumented smartwatch.” The smartwatch is enabled with …

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4G To Hit 1 Billion in 2016 Says IDC

by Bob Raikes

IDC said that it expects worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to reach 1.45 billion units with a year-over-year growth rate of 0.6% in 2016, down a long way from the 10.4% growth seen in …

Pegatron Ready for Surface Phone

by Bob Raikes

The Chinese language Commercial Times said that Pegatron is preparing to make trial production runs of a new Surface phone from Microsoft. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the Australian Financial Review that Microsoft plans …

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Synaptics Chips for Samsung?

by Bob Raikes

Chinese sources say that ASE and VisEra Technologies have won orders to package under-glass fingerprint sensors from Synaptics, to be used in the Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone. The FS4500 chip is reported to be …