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Will Royole Try to Make a Tablet?

by Bob Raikes

Royole, the headset and OLED developer is reported to have developed a tablet/phablet of around 6″ to 7″ that will use an OLED display. Analyst Comment We were unable to find any definitive confirmation …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 46

IDC: Tablet Shipments Slow Down in Western Europe in Q3

by Andrew Fenn

According to the latest figures published by International Data Corporation (IDC), the tablet market in Western Europe decreased 5.0% year-on-year this quarter. In total, 7.8 million devices were shipped in the region, which shows …

Tags:Europe| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 43

Round-up at Fujitsu Forum

by Bob Raikes

At the Forum, German company, Witech, was showing a ‘wireless desk’. I remembered seeing something before from Fujitsu at CeBIT some years ago, and it seems that this was around five years ago. The …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Fujitsu Forum 2017| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| tablets| Thin Clients| Vol 24 - Issue 42| Wireless Charging

IDC: Tablet Market Declines 5.4% in Third Quarter

by Andrew Fenn

The third quarter of 2017 closed with 40 million tablets shipped globally, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation. Growing demand for smartphones combined with the lengthening replacement cycle of tablets and …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 42

Ergo Partners with Fleet Ad on Taxi Tablet Advertising Campaign

by Andrew Fenn

Insurance group Ergo has extended its Emoji campaign until mid-December, in collaboration with taxi advertising specialist, Fleet Ad. Via in-car passenger tablets, Ergo’s campaign uses icons and what-if scenarios to educate users about accident …

Tags:DOOH| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Transport| Vol 24 - Issue 40

Is a Wide Color Gamut the Wrong Thing?

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent press release Corning and Healthe announced their collaboration on protecting eyes against damage from digital device blue light exposure. This collaboration is based on Healthe offering Eysafe covers for smartphones, tablets, …

Tags:Blue Light| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 40| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Samsung Adds Mounts for Rugged Tablet

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has introduced a rugged tablet for industrial environments, the Galaxy Tab Active2. Suk-Jea Hahn, Executive VP of Samsung Electronics’ Global Mobile B2B Team said: “The Samsung Galaxy Tab Active2 was built based on …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Samsung| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Android Oreo has Colour Profile Support

by Bob Raikes

Android 8.0 (Oreo) has been released on the Pixel 2 (and will come on other devices). There has been a big change ‘behind the scenes’ to the architecture to use the same version across …

Tags:Android| Colour Management & Processing| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Tablet App Processors Grow in Value

by Bob Raikes

Strategy Analytics has said that the value of the market for tablet Application Processors has returned to growth and was up 5% in the first half of 2017, after two years of decline. The …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 38

Fujitsu Stylistic V535 Tablet Has PalmSecure F-Pro

by Bob Raikes

Fujitsu Frontech in the US announced the Windows-based Stylistic V535 Tablet which features an 8.3″ PCap touch IPS LCD display and the company’s newest and smallest palm vein biometric sensor. The panel has 1920 …

Tags:Fingerprint Recognition| Fujitsu| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 38

Analogix Has DP/USB Compatibility Checker

by Bob Raikes

Analogix has published an online matrix showing the features available and implemented in mobile devices that is intended to help with decisions about how to exploit connectivity via USB Type-C or Micro-USB.

Tags:Back Panel| DisplayPort| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Smartphones| tablets| USB| Vol 24 - Issue 37

Business Smartphones and Tablets Show Recovery

by Alan Spencer

For business smartphones and tablets, the second quarter of 2017 was a buoyant quarter, as the market showed signs of a rebound according to Strategy Analytics. Business smartphone shipments grew 14.8% compared to the …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 35