Volume 3
APRIL 2008
Number 4

LED/Laser Devices and Components 2
Epistar Gross Margins Expected to Fall 2
Luminus Closes $72M VC Funding Round 2
Japanese Institute Develops White LED 3
Philips Says Lighting Science Group Violates Patents 3
Polarized-LEDs - But to What Effect on LCDs? 4
OLEDs 6
Kodak's Back with Commercial OLED 6
    W-OLED Architecture 8
    Scaling to Manufacture 8
    Materials Utilization up to 50% 9
LG Chem and UDC in OLED Materials Tie-Up 10
Novaled Opens Its First Subsidiary in Asia 11
Osram's OLED Lighting Hits New Efficiency Levels 12
LCD Components and Manufacturing 12
Indium Prices Fall while Demand Rises 12
Merck's Optimism Returns 13
Backlights 13
ASPs for Handset-BLU LEDs Drop 10% to 15% 13
Epistar to Ship Brighter Notebook LEDs for Backlighting 14
Digital Picture Frames 14
Is Your Digital Picture Frame Secure? 14
Mobile Products 16
Cell Phone Nav. Goes Mainstream 16
Kyocera Bows NFC / Bio Metric Phone 20
Motorola Shows New MobileTV Device 22
Chinese Mobile Handsets Target N. America 23
Samsung Instinct Wins CTIA Best in Show 24
LED/Laser Projectors 24
Iljin Prepares to Market Pico-Projector 24
Alternative Displays 25
Qualcomm Finds New Display Customer 25
Mobile Infrastructure 26
Mobile TV Gets Another Carrier 26
Eu Spectrum Auction Starts in April 27
FCC Auction Nets $20B, From Verizon and AT&T 27
Mobile TV in Europe Squeezing to Single Standard 28
Mobile Extended Services Come of Age 29
WiMax Gets New Investors 31
Smartphones to Replace the PC? 34
Business & Strategic 38
As Cell Phone Turns 35 Motorola Suffers 38
Clairvoyante is Dead; Long Live Nouvoyance 40
BenQ Steps up Handset Outsourcing 41
Compal Makes Low-cost Handsets for Nokia 41
Kyocera Teams with Sanyo in NA Handsets 42
Matsushita Ships 100M Handsets 42
Philips Sells More of its Stake in LG Display 43
Rohm and Haas Acquires Gracel Display 43
T-Mobile Slashes iPhone to 99 Euros 43
US Postal Service Launches CE Recycling 44
Market Intelligence 44
ABI Says SMS to Grow to $212B by 2013 44
China to Top World CE Economy 45
High-End Camcorders to Dominate in '08 47
PMPs Boost Mobile Ads to $2.2B by 2012 47
Insight Media News 48
Projection Summit 2008 Preliminary Agenda Announced 48
Newsletter Editorial Matrix 52
About Mobile Display Report 53
About Insight Media 53