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Strategy Analytics: Global Smart Home Market to Hit $155 Billion by 2023

by Andrew Fenn

The global smart home market ended on an upbeat note in 2017 reaching $84 billion, up 16% from $72 billion in 2016 according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. According to the report, …

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Absen Announced as Sponsor of StadiumBusiness Summit

by Andrew Fenn

Absen has announced it will sponsor and exhibit at the forthcoming StadiumBusiness Summit, taking place on June 12th and 13th at the Emirates Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, UK. The company will demonstrate its …

HMD Announces Updated Nokia Smartphone Range

by Andrew Fenn

Nokia’s smartphone business HMD has announced updates to three of its models — Nokia 2.1, 3.1 and 5.1 — all running Android Oreo, with support for Google’s Android One programme and prices starting from …

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Shenzhen Control Centre Features “World’s Largest” LED Display

by Andrew Fenn

Committed to its mission of becoming a “smart city”, Shenzhen, China’s Longgang district is home to the city’s “smart city brain”, the Longgang Operation Centre, featuring what provider Absen claims to be the world’s …

AOC Gaming Monitor Uses TN for Fast Response

by Bob Raikes

AOC has a new monitor for budget-conscious gamers. The 24.5″ TN LCD-based FullHD G2790PX has support for 144Hz operation and has a claimed 1ms response time. Brightness is 400 cd/m² and viewing angles are …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Gartner: Worldwide Sales of Smartphones Returned to Growth in 2018 Q1

by Andrew Fenn

Global sales of smartphones to end users returned to growth in the first quarter of 2018, with a 1.3% increase over the same period in 2017, according to Gartner. Compared to the first quarter …

Tags:Gartner| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Sony Adds to MicroOLED Range

by Bob Raikes

Sony has a new OLED-based microdisplay, the ECX339A, that has 1600 x 1200 resolution and a 0.5″ diagonal, giving a pixel pitch of 6.3μm (which we calculate at just over 4,000 ppi). Previously, the …

Tags:Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| sony| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Confusion Arises Over Existence of ARM-Based MacBook

by Andrew Fenn

Earlier this week, Digitimes’ sources are reported to have told the publication that Pegatron would soon be producing an ARM-based Apple MacBook, codenamed Star, with the series number N84. The report didn’t go into …

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IHS Markit: Out-of-Home Video Viewing on the Rise

by Andrew Fenn

More than half of internet users surveyed in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan and Germany watched video content out of their homes at least once a month, according to consumer surveys conducted …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TV Viewing| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Amazon Alexa Skill Now Available on 2018 LG ThinQ AI TVs

by Andrew Fenn

LG has announced that its 2018 OLED TVs and Super UHD TVs with AI ThinQ technology are now compatible with Alexa-enabled devices through the LG SmartThinQ Skill for Amazon Alexa. Consumers can now control …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Voice Input| Vol 25 - Issue 21

BC08 Tianma Looking for Full Screen Takeover

by Bob Raikes

Charles Peng is from Tianma and he talked about the new era of mobile phone displays. 5G will soon be available with high speed and low latency enabling new AI applications. The smartphone will …

BC07 BOE Looks to IoT and 8K

by Bob Raikes

Thomas Wegener is a veteran of Fujitsu and Samsung, but is now working for BOE in Europe. BOE sees itself as an IoT company, rather than a display business and Wegener went through the …