Smartphones launched as soon as next year could feature a bezel-free design thanks to new fingerprint scanning technology announced by Qualcomm. The US chipmaker has long supplied components to major phone makers like Apple and Samsung, ...
Tags: Fingerprint Scanner, Smartphones
If you want a new flagship Android smartphone, there’s no better choice than the Samsung Galaxy S8 – and a discount makes the deal even sweeter. Amazon is selling both the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ for well below their ...
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The number of iPhone 8 handsets available for purchase at launch may be more limited than usual, according to a new report. Every year, Apple announces an iPhone in September, and then proceeds to sell them by the bucketload. But this ...
Tags: iPhone 8, handsets, OLED panels
The forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has purportedly made an appearance in render form, ahead of its potential release in September. OnLeaks has published images of renders apparently created from CAD information, showing a typically ...
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The Galaxy Note 8 could be Samsung’s most expensive smartphone ever, if a new report is to be believed. The average price of flagship smartphones has been creeping steadily upwards for years now. Pair that with the UK’s ...
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Quality OLED televisions are still priced prohibitively highly, setting UK customers back thousands of pounds per set – but is that about to change? When it comes to television panels, the industry gold standard is OLED, or organic ...
Tags: OLED Televisions, LCD display
If you thought Samsung might price the Galaxy Note 8 in a modest manner, that might entice smartphone fans to give the range another chance, then reports on Friday blew that theory out of the water. According to VentureBeat, the handset ...
Tags: Galaxy Note 8, Price Tag
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is fast approaching and we’ve got a couple of nuggets of information to pass on, on this red hot Monday. The good news? It seems Samsung might be ready to launch the device at an event in New York, as soon ...
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has begun mass producing a new mid-power LED package, the LM301B (with samples available now), featuring what is claimed to be the industry’s highest luminous efficacy of 220 lumens per watt. ...
At the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan (5-8 June), nanoelectronics and photovoltaics research centre Imec of Leuven, Belgium unveiled new process improvements for next-generation devices. For the first time it ...
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At the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan (5-8 June), nanoelectronics and photovoltaics research centre Imec of Leuven, Belgium reported record values below 10-9Ω.cm2 for PMOS source/drain contact ...
Tags: PMOS Transistors, wafers
The iPhone 8 won’t be the only Apple handset to offer wireless charging this year, according to one of the companies it uses to assemble the device. Winston, who’ll be splitting the duties with Foxconn this year, says that ...
Tags: iPhone 7s, Apple handset
Samsung will soon begin selling a new batch of ultra-affordable Galaxy J-series smartphones in the UK, although details are thin on the ground. Most Brits know Samsung for its flagship Galaxy S-series phones, the latest of which is the ...
Samsung plans to launch the Galaxy Note 8 at the beginning of September, according to a new report. In August last year, Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 7 to critical acclaim. But the mood quickly turned sour as reports of spontaneous ...
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 has been used in all manner of flagship devices this year, including the pre-eminent Galaxy S8 in some territories. Based on the latest 10nm process, the chip is a top-of-the-range offering, but Qualcomm is ...