Mobile Display Report

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

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