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China’s Q4 2021 Smartphone Shipments Fall 11% YoY; HONOR #2 for First Time

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research put out a release highlighting the Chinese smartphone market and said that Honor, the Huawei spin-off, had doubled its sales, going from 7.5% in Q4 2020 to 16.7% in …

Tags:China| iPhone| Market Data| Smartphone Market| Smartphones

Simula One to Ship Late in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Simula One has revealed a new stand-alone VR headset powered by a Intel i7 chip and running SumulaOS, a Linux distribution designed for VR. The unit, which will feature dual 2448 …

Tags:Intel| Virtual Reality

Seeing is believing: Everything you need to know about 8K in live broadcasting and professional displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association, in collaboration with Intel and Sharp NEC Display Solutions, is planning a ‘Fireside Chat’ on 9K broadcasting and professional displays. It is free to join, but registration is …

Tags:Events| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

MiniLED Monitors are Getting Cheaper

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Earlier this week, we listed in our ‘quick links’ a new Cooler Master 27″ GP27-FUS UltraHD monitor with DisplayHDR 1000 rating and with no pricing yet. Now we have spotted another, …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Pricing| Quantum Dots

Roku Planning to Make its Own TVs?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Business Insider reports that Roku is exploring the feasibility of making its own brand of smartTVs and apparently ran a focus group. Someone told the blog: “They showed different models, feature …

Tags:Roku| Smart TV| USA

Samsung Electronics labor union threatens to stage first-ever walkout

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reports that labour unions at Samsung in Korea are threatening to go out on strike, which would be a first for the firm in over 50 years. The …

Tags:Korea| Samsung

SK Hynix new memory chips are 16 times faster, 80% more efficient

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported that SK Hynix has ‘next generation’ memory chips that can process data as well as storing it. The firm claims that this can increase calculation times by …

Tags:Semiconductors

Google Announces Software to Turn Old PCs and Macs Into Chromebooks

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has made blog post that highlights that it has a new version of the Chrome OS Flex operating system designed to transform old Macs and PCs into Chromebooks. The system …

Tags:Chrome| Chromebooks| Google| PCs

Reflections on the Desktop – and Outside

by Bob Raikes

We have published a number of press releases from New Vision Display over the last few years, but a recent one caught my eye and so I followed up to get a bit more …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| Outdoor Displays| Reflective Display

Futuresource Publishes its ‘Perspectives in CE’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Futuresource, a research company based in the UK, has published its view on CE trends in 2022, based basically on what happened and was discussed at CES 2022. The report can …

Tags:audio| Consumer Electronics Industry

Qualcomm is Expanding in XR R&D & Developing ‘5G Necklace’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Auganix reported that Qualcomm is boosting its R&D investment in XR with the opening of six new labs in Europe. Separately, Engadget reported that the firm has developed a ‘5G neckband’ …

Report: EU & UK cinema attendance up 28% in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Preliminary data from the European Audiovisual Observatory estimates that the cinema attendance in the European Union and the UK increased to 383.2 million tickets sold in 2021. This is 83.8 million …

Tags:Cinema| Cinema going| Market Data