Bob Raikes

subscribe

LG Made Some Wild Curved OLED Concepts for CES 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display will not be at CES next month (even if it goes ahead) but has shown some concepts for entertainment devices using curved OLEDs, one of which uses three 55″ …

Tags:Curved Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)

Reality Check Reports Execs Leaking from Magic Leap

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Information’s Reality Check newsletter reported that a ‘string of executives’ have left Magic Leap in the last few months, including a number that joined earlier in the year after the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Recruitment & Appointments

Echo Growth Slows – Displays Increase Engagement

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Just before we broke for the holiday, Bloomberg reported that it had seen internal documents from Amazon that said that smart speakers are no longer in a growth phase and forecast …

Tags:Amazon| Forecasts| Market Data| Voice Input

China’s Luxshare builds iPhone mega-plant to challenge Foxconn

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Luxshare of China is building a ‘massive manufacturing complex’ in eastern China to break the hold of Pegatron and Foxconn have had on iPhone assembly. The factory will …

Tags:Apple| China| iPhone| ODMs & OEMs

Cord Cutting in 2021. Antennas Selling Well

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol newsletter posted an article that looked at developments in streaming this year and categorised 2021 as the ‘post-cable’ year. One of the interesting snippets was that the article said that …

Tags:Antennas| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Streaming Video| SVOD| TV Viewing| USA

LG Display to supply LTPO OLED for iPhone 14

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Just before the holiday, The Elec in Korea reported that Apple has placed a small PO with LG Display for the supply of LTPO OLEDs for the iPhones to be launched …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| LTPO TFT| OLEDs

B&W Teams with Formovie

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The UK-based audio specialist Bowers & Wilkins sent us a press release (BW_Formovie.pdf) to say that it has done a deal with Formovie, a Chinese company founded by Xiaomi and Appotronics, …

Tags:audio| China| Laser Phosphor Projectors| UST Projectors

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

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)