Vol 22 – Issue 08 – Page 6

BenQ Clear in B2B Push

by Bob Raikes

We first came into contact with BenQ when it clearly wanted to be a consumer electronics company. The firm spent a lot of money on marketing and bought the Siemens mobile phone business which …

Kyocera’s European Smartphone Survives Rugged Use

by Tom Allen

Marking the company’s entrance into the European mobile phone market, Kyocera’s Torque smartphone (KC-S701) is a rugged model meeting the MIL-STD-810 standard in 11 categories. These categories include dust, shocks, vibrations, humidity and immersion. …

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Crestron Jumps on UltraHD Bandwagon

by Bob Raikes

Our visit to Crestron was a bit of a frustration. We went a couple of times to make an appointment to hear about the latest technology, but we were basically abandoned on the booth. …

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GDS Concentrates on Colour

by Tom Allen

Global Display Solutions entered a partnership with E Ink following ISE 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 9), and has been developing products for the last two years. At ISE 2014, it showed two …

TDG Says Netflix is Facing Two Serious Challenges

by Helen Vince

According to an opinion article written by Alan Wolk of TDG Research, Netflix is facing two serious challenges to its current hegemony over OTT streaming, which has long term implications for its business.

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Feature Phones Cannibalise Smartphones in Japan

by Tom Allen

According to data from MM Research Institute, shipments of flip-phones rose in Japan last year, for the first time in seven years, while smartphone shipments fell. Flip-phones were up 5.7% YoY, to 10.6 million, …

Vestel Speeds Betting Sector

by Tom Allen

Vestel is one of the largest OEMs in Europe, and is deeply involved in Turkey’s Fatih Project. However, the company was at ISE to talk signage. The newest of Vestel’s displays on show was …

Planar Talks 100% UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Planar was clearly positioning itself at the show as the specialist in UltraHD and told us that all the displays that it was showing were UltraHD resolution (although this didn’t apply to the transparent …

Aoto Looks to ‘Small’ Professional Displays

by Tom Allen

Aoto’s stand was dominated by a curved 1.2mm-pitch LED display, part of the M Series (1mm – 16mm). However, it was not the main attraction. The most interesting product that Aoto was showing was …

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Panasonic Emphasises Strength & Reliability

by Bob Raikes

Panasonic had a re-located booth this time – it was said to be bigger than last year’s. There was an impressive demo of projection mapping onto a Tesla and we made a short video …

Seer Headset Brings 100º FOV to Augmented Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

Augmented reality headsets either try to be very subtle in appearance, as in the sunglasses styles, or try to provide a superior optical performance without looking at the aesthetic consequences. In this group are …

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Barco Claims World’s Quietest Laser Projector

by Tom Allen

Barco’s space-themed stand welcomed us with big LED displays and a really immersive example of a dome projection. The X-1.6 is part of a new high-end LED display range, the X Series, that was …