Samsung looks to have reclaimed the "maker of the best Android handset" title with the new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ handsets. The phones are great-looking devices with top-end hardware, but strangeley, there's very little difference ...
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First-tier China-based touch panel makers, in view of decreased orders for projected capacitive touch solutions (out-cell) used in smartphones due to increasing adoption of in-cell and on-cell touch solutions, have extended production to ...
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The iPhone 7 is easily one of the best phones of 2016. It delivers peppy performance, more storage capacity than its predecessors, water resistance, a resilient battery, exceptional cameras (especially the iPhone 7 Plus model) and a host of ...
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Samsung S8 GALAXY hot on the network, different news channels have also been disclosed in the new features of the machine. And now, the Russian website Fonearena quoted he received news broke the news that the Samsung GALAXY S8 will be in ...
Before the day, the famous overseas fingerprint identification solution provider Synaptics officially launched a new optical fingerprint sensor - FS9100. The sensor can be through the thickness of 1mm glass and fingerprint scanning, ...
In its war against Apple et al, Samsung is dragging the production of more and more smartphone components under its own banner. Samsung has been developing fingerprint sensor chips since last year, with a view to begin manufacturing the ...
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Due to fast growing use of smartphone-based mobile payment services in the China market, both international and domestic vendors, including white-box ones, have adopted fingerprint recognition functions for their smartphones. Consequently, ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has announced the appointment of Kathleen Bayless to its board of directors and its audit committee. From 2009 until her retirement in 2015, ...
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Apple has placed LCD driver IC orders for its 2016 series of iPhones with Synaptics, indicating its in-house developed touch and display driver integration (TDDI) single-chip solutions will not be ready, according to industry sources. The ...
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The increasing number of suppliers of fingerprint identification sensors heralds keen competition in the sector's short-term future. Furthermore, the offering of integrated IC parts that combine LCD driver IC, touch-controller IC and ...
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The Nexus 6 may have been destined to tout a fingerprint scanner, the Android source code has revealed. ArsTechnica dig some digging through the Android Open Source Project code for the Nexus 6, and discovered a commit removing ...
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Prices of touchscreen controller ICs are expected to drop 20-30% in 2014, down from current levels of US$1.2-1.5 per unit for high-end smartphones and below US$1 for entry-level models, according to industry sources. Touchscreen ...
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Synaptics Inc. today announced it will be showcasing the latest in touch technologies at the 2013 Computex Show in Taipei, Taiwan. An expansive mobile device lineup equipped with Synaptics' ClearPad family of capacitive touchscreens ...
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Synaptics Inc. today announced the ClearPad S7500, the latest addition to Synaptics' industry-leading ClearPad line of clear capacitive touchscreen solutions. The ClearPad S7500 removes barriers to the adoption of large, high-performance ...
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IDG News Service - Researchers at the User Interface Software Technology conference this week demonstrated unique projects that took advantage of a new, pressure-sensitive "forcepad" that could debut in ultrabooks as soon as next year. ...
Tags: ultrabooks, Software Technology, Software, touchpad