Year: 2021

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Huawei’s P50 Has a Circular External Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Huawei launched, as expected, a new folding, clamshell smartphone, the P50 Pocket, that combines a folding 6.9″ 120Hz 21:9 (279O x 1188) resolution. What was not expected is that the smartphone …

Tags:5G| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Free Form Displays| Huawei| OLEDs| Smartphones

 HDMI 2.1a Adds SBTM

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HDMI has introduced HDMI 2.1a which adds a single feature, “Source-Based Tone Mapping” which is a way for source and sink devices to communicate on optimum tone mapping. There are other …

Tags:HDMI| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Interfaces

Sisvel Signs an Agreement Under the VP9 Patents With Panasonic Corporation

by Artem Alekseenko

Sisvel International S.A. announced that it has signed a worldwide patent license agreement with Panasonic Corporation for Sisvel’s VP9 Licensing Program covering the sale and distribution of Panasonic’s VP9 enabled products. “Sisvel has a …

Tags:Panasonic| Patents| Sisvel| VP9

Can Samsung Remain The Leader in Smartphone Shipments?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research reported on the long term trend in smartphone shipments since 2012, by brand. It points ou that Samsung has been the biggest brand on an annual basis for all …

Tags:Apple| Huawei| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market

CES Still Losing Support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say CES looks less and less appealing as a number of big tech names have dropped out. Amazon, Meta and Twitter have dropped out and the latest we saw withdrawing was Lenovo …

Tags:CES 2022| ISE 2022

LeTV Restores Employee Benefits

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Caixin Chinese news source reports that LeTV, which hit really difficult financial conditions in the past (LeEco Still Struggling to Survive and LeEco Brags about its Debt), has decided to …

Tags:China| Reorganisation & Restructuring| TVs (TV Sets)

The Shape of (Monitor) Things to Come (Part 1)

by Bob Raikes

I was struggling to come up with a topic for today’s column then I saw an interesting release (LG’s Award-Winning Premium Monitors Designed With Modern Home-Office Workers in Mind) about a new ‘Dual Up’ …

Tags:Aspect Ratios| CRT| Desktop Monitors| Visual Ergonomics

Links Week Ending 24th December 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Samsung 2022 TVs, Nvidia RTX 20/30 GPUs …

Tags:Amazon| GPUs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Microdisplays| MicroLED| OLEDs| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphones| sony| TVs (TV Sets)| VideoConferencing

Magic Leap Expects ML2 Next Year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap CEO, Peggy Johnson, spoke to Bloomberg Technology in a 6 minute video and said that its next headset will be available in the middle of 2022. It will be …

Tags:Augmented Reality