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Articles tagged with: Lcd Displays
Demand for Small/Medium Displays Rises: Will Prices Follow Suit?
Despite rising demand, a reduction in inventories and a marginal increase in prices some for a few small/medium-sized LCD panels in April, global pricing is expected to remain on a downward trend in 2009, according to iSuppli. more
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Despite Rising Demand, Small/Medium Display Pricing Falling
After three months of decline, small/medium LCD displays in February experienced a pick-up in sales driven by the Chinese market, with local Chinese mobile handset makers increasing their demand, according to iSuppli Corp. more
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BlackBerry Shows Off its First Flip-Phone
Research In Motion (RIM) has shown off its first ever flip phone - the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone. The quad-band EDGE and Wi-Fi based BlackBerry Pearl Flip smartphone features two color displays, and the external LCD makes it easy to preview incoming emails, text messages and phone calls without opening the handset, while the large, 240 x 320 internal LCD displays messages, videos and web pages. more
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600-Metre Tunnel Used to Smuggle Mobile Phones into China
Police from Hong Kong and China's Shenzhen have discovered a 600-metre long underground tunnel across the Shenzhen River which was being used to smuggle mobile phones into the mainland. Police have arrested 12 people, including the mastermind, and seizing HK$8.4 million (US$1.1 million) worth of goods. more
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Europe Takes the Pole Position in Flexible Display Market
Flexible electronic display technology developed by European researchers has allowed companies on the continent to make inroads in a market dominated by Asian firms. While Asian firms currently dominate the overall display screen market, Europe is now a leader in the production of flexible electronic displays segment, thanks to a project that brought together manufacturers such as Philips, Thales and Nokia with the continentÃ's leading academic researchers. more
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A Flexible Approach to New Phone Displays
Flat screen displays currently used in computer monitors, television sets and numerous other electronic devices are all built on a glass base. Most use liquid crystal devices (LCDs), which filter light from behind to form an image. more
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Mobile Backlighting Remains Top Use for LEDs
After two years of moderate single-digit revenue growth in 2005 and 2006, the solid-state lighting industry is poised to propel LED revenue to a double-digit expansion rate in 2007. iSuppli is forecasting total LED market revenue will grow by about 13.7 percent in 2007 and will expand at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of approximately 14.6 percent between 2006 and 2012 to reach $12.3 billion. Global LED market revenue rose by only 2.1 percent in 2005 and by 8.7 percent in 2007. more
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Europe to be the Fastest-Growing Market for WCDMA in 2007
Forward Concepts has announced the publication of its newest study of the worldwide cellphone market and virtually all of the chips that go into them. Market metrics are the central focus of the study, but some key findings are:
- Europe will be the fastest-growing market for WCDMA in 2007.
- EDGE markets will continue to grow in spite of excitement in 3G.
- WEDGE will begin to dominate the 3G market, providing EDGE fallback service for the thinly populated 3G networks.
- The demand for voice-only low-cost and ultra-low-cost cellphones will constitute the dominant market volume for the next three years.
- Over the next five years, the cellphone market will experience strong growth in multiple-mode wireless peripheral chips supporting WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS, FM radio and mobile TV.
- The mainstream cellphone camera market is rapidly migrating to 2 megapixels.
- The global fragmentation of mobile TV standards will lead to strong demand for multi-standard mobile TV receiver chipsets.
- Qualcomm's MediaFLO has achieved early dominance in the U.S. mobile TV market.
- HDTV-aspect-ratio LCD displays will explode with the rapid growth of mobile TV.
- In spite of broadcast mobile TV, video streaming over the network will continue to grow with 3G rollouts.
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New Phones uses LCD Panel for Keypad
South Korea's Pantech Group has announced the launch of the IM-R200 handset, it's latest dual-LCD sliding phone equipped with an OLED touch-sensitive screen. Separated from its main LCD display, the new phone does away with the standard keypad in favor of a brand-new LCD-typed keypad. When sliding up, the virtual keypad shows up on the LCD that is touch-sensitive, allowing users to dial numbers and view contacts with a stroke of a finger. more
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Camera phone with flash from Audiovox
Audiovox has shown off a new CDMA handset that comes with a flash camera. The phone weighs 3.2 ounces and measures 3.5 x 1.9 x .9 in the tri-mode (800 MHz mps/CDMA, 1900 MHz PCS), CDMA2000 1X Capable (system dependent) features the MSM6100 Chipset and is GPSOne(TM) Capable (E911 Phase2 Supported), also system dependent. more
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