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LG Sees Hexagons as Battery of the Future

by Tom Allen

LG Chemical has shown off a hexagonal battery, for smartwatches, which it says will bring up to four more hours of lifetime every day. The idea is that the shape will enable larger batteries …

Tags:Batteries| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Second Apple Watch to House Video Camera

by Tom Allen

‘Sources familiar with the matter’ have said that Apple Watch 2 will be launched in 2016, with a video camera supporting Face Time. Rumours also say that Apple will integrate a new chipset that …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 26

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 26

by Tom Allen

Apple has discontinued the original iPad Mini – the last iOS device that the company made without a retina display. Densitron Displays and ‘Papirus’ have created an electrophoretic display for the Raspberry Pi, called …

Smart Wearables Will Dominate in 2016

by Tom Allen

With new vendors – including Apple – preparing to introduce new wearables, the market continued to grow in Q1’15. A new forecast from IDC estimates that 72.1 million wearable devices will be shipped worldwide …

Huawei ‘Confirmed’ as Google Partner

by Tom Allen

There have been repeated rumours that a Chinese maker would build Google’s next Nexus smartphone, and now Huawei has won that honour. A source, apparently a Huawei UK employee, has told IB Times that …

Nokia’s Unfinished Smartwatch Hits Tumblr

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeA Nokia smartwatch, which was axed by Microsoft after the company’s takeover, has been revealed. Known as ‘Moonraker’, the unreleased smartwatch was said to be close to launch when Microsoft scrapped it. …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 25

by Tom Allen

A very thin smartphone has been launched in China. The Coolpad IVVI is 4.9mm thick and uses a 5″ AMOLED display (1920 x 1080). Running Android 4.4.4 on a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor, the …

Wearable Software Ecosystem: Diversity or Monoculture

by Phillip Wright

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on Software for Wearables with speakers from Mozilla, Intel, and Runtastic. At this point in the penultimate session of …

AUO Wins Award and Impresses

by Bob Raikes

AUO started by showing us its 1.3″ (320 x 320 – 257ppi 350 cd/m²) plastic AMOLED and its 1.4″ “Full Circle” (400 x 400 – 287ppi 350 cd/m²) OLED which won the SID Best …

A Smartwatch Developer’s View on Wearables (WF7)

by Phillip Wright

The Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at SID’s 2015 Display Week featured a presentation by Andrew Witte, Founder and CTO, Pebble Technology. The Pebble smartwatch (pictured below) initially funded through crowd funding …

Samsung Teases About Round Smartwatch

by Tom Allen

Click to enlargeAn image shared by Samsung on Twitter hints at a round smartwatch. The image, from the Samsung Exynos Twitter account, shows a circular heart-rate graphic. It was accompanied by the words, ‘Using …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Special Wearables Address on Android Wear and Google’s Wish List (WF1)

by Phillip Wright

The opening presentation at the Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference organized by IHS at the 2015 SID Display Week was delivered by Sidney Chang, Head of Business Development for Android Wear at Google. Chang opened …