Volume 3
MARCH 2008
Number 3

LED/Laser Devices and Components 2
Avago Bows New Four Color LED Chips 2
Update-Avnet to Distribute Luminous LEDs 2
Leadis Quick to Market with Efficient LED Drivers 3
    Leadis Comments on LED Trends 4
Seoul Semi Bows World's Brightest LED 5
Update-January Growth in LEDs Modest 5
Zetex Bows New LED Driver Family 6
Backlights 7
LED Backlights for Notebook PCs Now 7
LED Backlight Boom Gains Momentum 8
    Notebook LCD Backlights to Use 700M LEDs this Year 8
    TSMI to Process More LED-based Panels 8
    Coretronic Increases LED BLU Yield and Production 9
    Everlight Pres Says LED Penetration to Rise in all Sizes 9
LED and CCFL Notebook Price Gap Remains 9
Touch Screens 10
AUO to Produce Cheap iPhone Touchscreens? 10
EarthLCD Bows Programmable, Touch Modules 11
Touch Display Market Could Reach $1B 12
Small LCD Displays 13
Lexus/Crown Hybrid Bows Multi Use LCD Panel 13
LED/Laser Projectors 14
Giotti Shows Novel LED Projector Design 14
Motorola Shows Pico Projector Demo 16
TeraOp Displays Changes Name to "bTendo" 16
Young Optics to Produce Pico-Projector 17
OLEDs 18
GE Shows World's First Roll-to-Roll Mfg OLEDs 18
Toray Develops New Blue OEL Material 19
Virtual Microdisplays 20
Wanted: Efficient EMDs for Holographic Apps 20
3D Displays 20
A Volumetric Integral Image 3D Display 20
Binocular Imaging Projects Underway at Durham 21
Durham Proposes New Image-Quality Metric 22
Free Space, Laser-Plasma 3D Update 22
Rewritable Holograms in Mobile Phones? 24
SeeReal Holographic 3D Display Progress 25
Trioviz Demos New Spectral 3D Solution 26
Personal Eyewear 27
Integrated GPS/HMD System for Parachutist Navigation 27
HMDs for Telerobotic Control 28
Sensics' HMD Survey Results Released 30
Digital Picture Frames (D-frames) 31
Digital Picture Frame ("D-frame") Roundup 31
    State of the Technology Sony's S-Frame 32
    Growing Market Demand 33
    Key Demand Driver (the Internet) 33
    Push Technology (RSS + Social Networking) 33
    Going Too Far? Ads on my Photo Frame? 34
    Conclusion 35
Mobile Infrastructure 35
Nielsen: Mobile Ads Growing 35
Two Worlds Converge-Cell Phones on the Big Screen 36
The Future of Mobile is in the Clouds 39
Market Intelligence 43
Japan's Dynamic Handset Market 43
2008 Handset Market Outlook 44
Mobile-Phone Sales Soar in 2007 46
    Nokia is the Global Leader - A monster in 4Q 47
    Number 2 and 3 Samsung and Motorola 48
    Sony Ericsson and LG 48
    The New Players to Watch 49
Notebook Sales Soften Monitor Demand 50
Seasonal Weakness in Medium-Size LCD Panels 52
Insight Media News 53
Pico-Projector Market Could Reach 30 Million Units by 2012 53
Mobile Display Quarterly Available from Insight Media 55
    Part 1 - Application 55
    Total Volume of Mobile Phones 55
    Handset Procurement Trend by Operator in Japan 57
    Part 2 - Display 57
    LCD Price Trend 58
Large Display Report and Mobile Display Report Catalogues Released 58
DISPLAYMate for Multimedia Edition Available Thru IM 61
    Advanced Set of Features 61
    Hardware & Operating Systems 62
Newsletter Editorial Matrix 63
About Mobile Display Report 64
About Insight Media 64