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Acer Still Enjoying Covid Boost

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer seems to be continuing to surf the wave that was generated by Covid in its key areas and said that its revenues in February were up 12.7% on last year …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data

Samsung TV Plus, Tennis Channel team for first FAST tennis offer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Next TV reports that the Tennis Channel’s T2 content will be available on the Samsung TV Plus advertising supported service in the US. T2 is youth-targeted and will include matches from …

Tags:AVOD| Samsung| Smart TV| Sports and Stadiums

Roku CEO predicts LG, Samsung and Vizio will Give Up their Own TV OSes

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Roku’s CEO, Anthony Wood, has said at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, that smartTV makers will ‘eventually’ give up and license operating systems from Roku, Amazon or Google. He sees an …

Samsung Caught in Scandal over S22 Performance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reports that Samung has been attacked by a lot of users in Korea over reports that an add-in, the ‘Game Optimizing Service’, or GOS, may kick in to …

Tags:CPUs| Korea| Samsung| Smartphones

LG Display Developing two OLED panels for Apple’s future iPads

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec has continued to drip feed information (well, rumours, really!) about the expected switch by Apple to OLEDs for its iPads. As we reported last week, Samsung has started developing …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Samsung Display| tablets

2021 OLED Shipments Rise 25% Y/Y

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC said that 242 million OLEDs were shipped in Q4 2021, up 11% on Q3, bringing shipments for the year to 831 million, up 25%. Smartphones dominated with 638 million, up …

Expectations for iPhone 14-19 Notch vs. Hole vs. UPC Designs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC has an interesting explanation of what it currently expects the future to be for iPhone designs as Apple looks, like others, to reduce the impact on the display of the …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| OLEDs| Under-Display Cameras

OLED Switch Can Burn in – after 3K6 hours!

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Hat-tip to OLED Info for spotting that YouTuber Ben Wulff has managed to cause ‘subtle’ burn-in on his Nintendo Switch OLED display. However, it has taken 6 months continuous display of …

Tags:OLEDs| warranty

OPPO Air Glass to be available for purchase in China from next month for 4,999 yuan ($791)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GizmoChina reported that the Oppo Air Glass system (Oppo announces the Air Glass monocle AR device) is due to be on sale in China at 4,999 yuan (~$791) in silver or …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China

OLED-based IdeaPad Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Laptop Magazine reviewed the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon notebook, which has a 14″ 2800 x 1800 OLED display that it describes as ” not only gorgeous, but (it’s) also super …

Tags:Lenovo| OLED Notebooks| Testing

Samsung Stops Russian Shipments

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reacting to the Russian invasion and war on Ukraine, Samsung has said that it will suspend shipments to Russia. Sales of semiconductors in Russia accounted for less than 0.1% of Samsung …

Tags:Russia| Samsung| Ukraine

Links W/C 7th March 2022

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 first part of this week. A great 360 degree presentation of Van …