Abstract
Focus: Mobile displays (LCD, OLED, MEMS) for cell phones, portable media players, portable DVD players, eBooks, cameras and camcorders, and ultra-portable PCs. Personal displays featuring microdisplays for head-wearable displays, small form-factor displays (including 3D), embedded or nano-projectors, micro-projectors and electronic viewfinders.
Benefit: Provides in-depth understanding of trends in the personal display and small display markets to aid in competitive intelligence, trend tracking, new technology sourcing/partnering ideas and information to avoid costly mistakes.
Table of Contents
Special Feature: Small LCD Picture-Quality Shoot-out
- The Displays
- LCD Panel Performance
- Image and Picture Quality Ratings
- Viewing Tests
- Final Grades
OLEDs
- Samsung Leads the Charge while LPL Retreats from AMOLED at IMID/IMDC ' 06
- OLEDs in 2Q: Shipments Up, Revenues Down
- CDT Announces Improved Lifetime for Blue Polymer OLEDs
- Kodak Licenses Tohoku to Use OLED Technology for Backlights
- Samtel to Manufacture OLED Displays in 2008
- UDC and Novaled Make Red PHOLED with 12 lumens/W Efficiency
Alternative Displays
- Moto Launches Handset with Electrophoretic Main Display
LED Devices
- Philips to build new HB-LED Facility in Singapore
Small Display Electronics
- TI Bows Mobile Features in "Hollywood" Cell-chip
- MagnaChip Bows Three New Drivers for Cell Displays
- Update: NEC Unveil 3-D SiP Technology
- Tokyo Firm Claims Fastest JPEG Chipset
- ADI Team Bows First Mobile TV Receiver for China
- Himax Agrees to Acquire Wisepal Technologies
- Magnachip Bows Chips for A-Si Mobile Displays
Small LCDs
- A Practical Plastic Display Now
- Wintek to Lease Gen 3 Line from HannStar?
- Picvue Applies for Taiwan' s Version of Chapter 11
- Samsung Develops 3-inch VGA LCD for DSCs
- Hitachi Develops Wide-Angle IPS LCD Module
- Sharp Microelectronics Europe Introduces 7.5-inch LCD
Microdisplay Devices
- eMagin to Supply Sagem with OLED Displays
Direct View Products
- Cell phones (Handsets)
- Convergence Products and Personal Media Players
Business & Strategic
- CMCS to Become Taiwan' s #2 OEM Handset Maker in ' 07
- Will Portable GPS Sales Boost In-Car Navigation Systems?
- Digital Camera Shipments Up, Says IDC
- PDA Sales Continue to Fall, "Cellular PDAs" Rise
- TI and "Japan Inc." Form 3G Handset JV
- In-Stat: Long-form Mobile Videos to Boom in 2008
- Sprint Nextel to Build $3B WiMAX Network
- Nortel Sells UMTS Business to Alcatel
- Cell Phone-Based E-Commerce to Top $4B in ' 06
Mobile Video
- Study Says Teens Nix Mobile Video - Well, Maybe Not
- Parks Associates Sees Mobile-Video Consolidation
- Tracfone/Virgin, Yes - ESPN/Disney, No
Mobile Video Content
- CBS Blasts Mobile Video Promos
- New 3D Maps/Hotspot Finder for Cellular GPS
- Neuros Creates Digital Video Smart Phones
- Extreme Sports Channel Added to Sky Mobile TV
