Vol 21 – Issue 50 – Page 5

The Prynt Picture Printer Turns a Smartphone into a Polaroid Camera

by Arthur Berman

Since last January, start-up hardware company Prynt SAS (Paris, France) has been working to develop a product that can turn a smartphone into the modern day equivalent of a Polaroid camera. The device consists …

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Stronger Shadow Masks Raise OLED Yields

by Bob Raikes

Korean Inha University researchers have developed a new shadow mask production method, which may raise high-resolution (500ppi+) OLED yield rates. It is possible that the new technique could entirely replace the existing etching process …

Square Trade Releases Tablet Scores for Tablet Durability

by Bob Raikes

Square Trade, the independent insurance company for mobile devices, has released a ranking of tablets by their durability. The company rated each device based on its breakability, durability, water resistance and slide and drop …

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Sony’s Single-Lens Display Module is Glass Competitor

by Bob Raikes

Sony has announced an augmented reality headset based on a single-lens OLED display module, similar to the Google Glass headset. Sony announced the SmartEyeglass device and the software development kit earlier in September 2014, …

Smartphones Rise but Samsung Falls, Says MIC

by Bob Raikes

Mobile phone shipment volume will reach 529 million units in Q4’14, according to Taiwan’s MIC. Of this number, 373 million units will be smartphones, representing a 12.7% QoQ rise. Despite the shipment rise, Samsung …

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Sharp to Supply Free-Form to Nintendo

by Bob Raikes

Sources have told The Japan Times that Sharp is likely to supply its Free-Form Display (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 25) to Nintendo. The FFD has a minimal bezel and does not need to …

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Royole Achieves Thinnest OLED

by Bob Raikes

Royole, a start-up with operations in China and the USA, said that it has developed a flexible OLED display with a thickness of just 10µm. The full-colour unit has a bend radius of 1mm …

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Qualcomm’s New Flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 810

by Bob Raikes

Qualcomm Technologies (QTI) first publicly mentioned the Snapdragon 810 in April 2014, and positioned it as Qualcomm’s new flagship application processor (AP). It featured a new GPU design, and a half dozen new firsts. …

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Low Mobile Result Causes Samsung Cancellation

by Bob Raikes

The development of a new range of smartphones has been postponed or cancelled by Samsung. According to internal sources, the ‘U Series’ – a high-end super-slim line – has been scrapped due to falling …

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IDTechEx Discusses Flexible Barrier Technology and Market for OLED

by Bob Raikes

IDTechEX recently discussed in a webinar the status of flexible barrier technology for OLED in display, lighting and photovoltaic applications. The company has also recently released a market report on the topic. The webinar …

High-Res and Weatherproofing at ISE

by Bob Raikes

A successor model to Panasonic’s (1.P20) PT-DZ21K (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 6) will be on show. Additionally, the company will demonstrate laser projectors and an UltraHD model using a new ‘quadrupling’ technology (this …

HDMI 2.0 Has Several Flavors so Be Careful

by Chris Chinnock

I bet most of you thought that when you had a device with HDMI 2.0 that it can support 4k at 60fps and included HDCP 2.2. It turns out that just like previous generations …