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Counterpoint Reports Top 10 2021 Global Smartphones – 7 Were Apple!

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research reported that 19% of the global smartphone market in 2021 was taken by the top 10 models. Seven of the top 10 were from Apple, two from Xiaomi and …

Tags:Apple| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Xiaomi

What Magic Leap 2 means for consumer AR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap has let some reviewers have a look at its new ML2 headset and we saw reports from the Information’s Reality Check and Protocol Entertainment. The headset uses LCOS displays …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)

New Chip Interconnect is ‘Incredibly Important’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bob O’Donnell is an analyst that we pay attention to (and he sometimes contributes DD articles). When he says something is important, I pay attention. He said that an announcement last …

New LG OLED TV update will give owners a Dolby Vision boost

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG has said that TVs with its Alpha 9 Gen 5 processor will be upgraded to support Dolby Vision IQ with Precision Rendering, the version of Dolby Vision intended to optimise …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LG Electronics (LGE)| TVs (TV Sets)| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Did Apple Just Kill the 27-inch iMac?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MacWorld pointed out that not only did Apple not announce a new 27″ iMac based on its own M1 silicon, it also removed references to the previous Intel-based version from its …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Apple

BOE and Honor in talks to apply 2-stack tandem OLED in smartphones

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec has continued its coverage of tandem OLED developments and said that BOE has worked with Honor to look at applying the technology to smartphones later this year. The aim …

Tags:BOE| OLED Materials| OLEDs| Smartphones

LG joins the Alliance for Open Media and embraces AV1 video codec

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) said that LG Electronics has joined the organisation which is developing the AV1 codec. There is no need to be a member of the consortium …

Tags:Codecs| LG Electronics (LGE)

Android 12L will come to Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft devices

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge reports that Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft are the first device manufacturers to commit to shipping Android 12L, the new version of Android designed to be better optimized for tablets …

Asus ROG Strix XG309CM Review – early access

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TFTCentral reviewed the Asus ROG Strix XG309CM 29.5″ 2560 x 1080 (21:9) gaming monitor. The basic feature list is: Fast IPS’ technology panel 1ms G2G quoted response time from AUO. Brightness …

Tags:Asus| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

Kopin Reports “Continued Strong Performance”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kopin saw revenues up 14% for the year to $45.7 million, with a 41% boost in demand for spatial light modulators and with revenues up 120% for OLED products. Overall,, for …

Tags:Financial Data| Kopin

Links Week Ending 11th March 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. 8K screens to see the Sagrada …

Japan’s Sharp bets on VR hardware as ‘metaverse’ takes off

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Sharp is beginning to benefit from the work it has done over time to develop displays for VR, especially since the Foxconn takeover in 2016. The Nikkei reported …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| sharp| Virtual Reality