Vol 22 – Issue 46 – Page 5

LG Gets Into Holiday Spirit

by Tom Allen

LG is celebrating the Christmas season with a six-week installation in New York’s Grand Central Terminal. As the official sponsor of the 2015 Holiday Fair in the station, LG will show its TVs every …

eD’system Expands Smartwatch Stock

by Tom Allen

Distributor eD’system is now stocking Suunto and PolarPro smartwatches in the Czech Republic.

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Sony has taken on EET Europarts as a new distributor in the Nordic region. EET will handle Sony’s consumer products in the TV, home theatre, home audio, headphones & portable audio, digital camera and …

Visionox’s AMOLED Beats 600 ppi

by Tom Allen

Visionox has developed a small, high-resolution AMOLED panel, using fine metal mask technology. The 4.85″ unit has 2560 x 1440 resolution (604 ppi) and uses the company’s RGB sub-pixel arrangement.

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MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 46

by Tom Allen

The 8″ Nvidia Shield tablet has been re-released, after it stopped selling the device earlier this year. Nothing has changed aside from some minor alterations to the case, and the price: the tablet now …

Vtron to Show Hybrid Video Wall at ISE

by Tom Allen

Control room and video wall specialist Vtron will show its new ‘hybrid’ display wall system at ISE 2016. The product combines Digicom’s ARK3000 and IP-based CLINK 1000 processors, with Vtron’s VIS video wall control …

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Huawei Shows Off Fast-Charge Battery

by Tom Allen

Huawei has published a video showing an extremely fast charge of a smartphone battery – five minutes to 50% capacity. The battery is removed from the phone (sorry, iPhone users) and placed in a …

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Windows-Android Integration Hits Delay

by Tom Allen

Windows 10 Mobile has been expected to solve the issue of a lack of apps on the Windows smartphone platform, by making porting them over from iOS and Android a simple process. However, while …

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Nokia Names New Head of Europe

by Tom Allen

As part of the planned merger with Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia has named Markus Borchet as the new head of Europe for the company. Borchet is currently SVP of the European market at Nokia Networks.

Norautron Acquires Hatteland Display

by Tom Allen

Norway’s Norautron Group is to acquire 100% of Hatteland Display from Herkules Capital. Norautron is an EMS provider and Hatteland manufactures maritime displays and computers. Including Hatteland Display, Norautron will have an estimated annual …

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Latest iPad Displays Unrivaled in Daylight Performance

by Steve Sechrist

Apple’s newest crop of tablets including the iPad Mini4, iPad Air2 and brand new flagship tablet from Apple, the iPad Pro gained “unrivaled record holder” performance status in ambient light conditions, mostly due to …

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Tveon Claims Perseus-Beating Bit-Rates

by Tom Allen

A Canadian company known as Tveon claims to have an encoding technology that beats even the impressive bit-rates of V-Nova’s Perseus (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements). Having been operating in ‘stealth mode’ for …

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