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by Bob Raikes
Bullit Group which licenses the Kodak brand has announced the Ektra smartphone (named after a historic Kodak camera) which is optimised for around for photography. It has a 21 megapixel main camera uses a …
Tags:Europe| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 42
by Bob Raikes
IHS said that the the share of displays with 300 pixels per inch (ppi) and higher resolution is 50% of the smartphone display market in 2016, and it will rise to 70% by 2023. …
Tags:IHS Markit| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 41
by Bob Raikes
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 625 processor which is built using 14nm technology and adds UltraHD HEVC encoding, allowing capture of UltraHD content at 30fps. Other features include an octa-core 64-bit CPU, an integrated X9 …
Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Smartphones| SOCs| Vol 23 - Issue 41
by Bob Raikes
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), today announced it is issuing an emergency order to ban all Samsung Galaxy …
Tags:Samsung| Smartphones| USA
by Bob Raikes
The US Department of Transportation (DOT), with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have banned the carriage of Samsung Note 7 devices in aircraft because of the problems of the phone catching fire. Flight crew …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 41
by Bob Raikes
UBI Research of Korea, which is specialising in OLED research, said that it expects new types of flexible OLEDs to be used in smartphones including full screen foldable and rollable. The company also confirms …
Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 40
by Bob Raikes
ETNews of Korea has put together rumours about the next Galaxy (S8?) from Samsung. It has forecast that the home button will disappear as a physical button, so that the whole front of the …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 40
by Bob Raikes
Nikkei reports that Sharp is to exploit its ownership by extending its sales of smartphones in Japan from the Aquos high end models that it currently sells to lower priced models.
Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 40
by Bob Raikes
ETNews has reported that Qualcomm has committed to supply all of its 10 nanometre production of its next Snapdragon 830 application processor to Samsung for the next (S8?) Galaxy smartphone. The paper reports that …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 39
by Bob Raikes
I’m fond of saying that ‘A display without a person has no purpose’. However, I can get through quite a lot of time at display technology events without anyone talking about perception or vision. …
Tags:Automotive| Human Visual System (HVS)| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 39
by Bob Raikes
At Ceatec in Japan, Sharp has shown an LCD based on an IGZO backplane that has reached a pixel density of more than 1000 ppi. The panel was 2.87″ in diagonal with 1920 x …
Tags:Ceatec 2016| Free Form Displays| IGZO| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 39
by Bob Raikes
Google announced two new smartphone models as well as a VR system. The phones are called the Pixel and Pixel XL and will be sold only under the Google brand and not via a …
Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 39
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