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Huawei MatePad Paper Goes Big

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At MWC 2022, Huawei has launched a new E Ink-based eReader, the MatePad Paper. It has a 10.3″ 1872 x 1404 (227 ppi) touch enabled display. The reader has a USB-C …

Tags:E Ink| eReaders| Huawei

HP Inc. Reports Fiscal 2022 First Quarter Results

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HP put out its quarterly result for its first fiscal quarter. Revenue was up by 8.8% from a year ago to $17 billion. Margins were down slightly from last year to …

Tags:Dell| Financial Data| HP Inc| Lenovo| MWC 2022| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

Global Smartphone Revenue Hits Record ~$450 Billion in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research posted a blog that highlighted the value of the smartphone market, which grew to be $448 billion in 2021, up 7% year on year in Q4. Apple’s market revenues …

Tags:Apple| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Xiaomi

Elliptic & Lenovo Implement Sensing on Notebook

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sensor maker, Elliptic Labs of Norway, said that its technology is being used in the Lenovo T14 notebook and is the ‘first software-only human presence detection solution’. Elliptic Labs’ AI Virtual …

Tags:Financial Data| Investment| Lenovo| Notebooks| Sensors| Smart TV

Samsung Electronics unveils Galaxy Book2 Business & Pro

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung released new Galaxy Book2 Business and Pro model notebooks at MWC. The Book2 Pro 360 is a convertible that uses a 15.6″ or 13.3″ FullHD display. You can see the …

Tags:Notebooks| Samsung

South Korean government is investing in the Metaverse

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The South Korean government said that it would invest $187 million towards a national metaverse project. Park Yungyu, head of communication and policy department at the ministry, stated in the announcement …

Tags:Korea| The Metaverse

Lenovo Announces the First Arm-based ThinkPad & Boost USB-C Monitor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lenovo has announced its first ThinkPad-branded notebook based on an Arm processor from Qualcomm. The Thinkpad X13s is said to have 28 hours of battery life (49.5WHr battery) for video playback …

Tags:Lenovo| Notebooks| Qualcomm| USB Monitors| Windows

Qualcomm’s New Deal With ByteDance and Pico

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm announced at MWC that it is working in a new partnership with ByteDance that is now the owner of the Pico VR company. (TikTok owner ByteDance could acquire VR headset …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Qualcomm| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

OnePlus plans to launch a phone with 150W charging

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo and OnePlus announced at MWC that they will introduce high capacity smartphone chargers that can charge a 4,500 mAh battery in 15 minutes, with 150W (20V @ 7.5A) of charging …

Tags:Batteries| Smartphones

DVB adds VVC to its Video Coding Toolbox

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The DVB Project has added VVC to the specifications to the DVB-AVC specification which has been approved by the DVB Steering Board and is available now as DVB BlueBook A001r19. Further …

Tags:Broadcast| Codecs| DVB| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD & 4K

AOC/MMD Busy in Gaming Monitors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TPV’s monitor business has been pushing out more gaming monitors using its Philips and AOC brands. The Philips Momentum 276M1RPE is a 27″ QuadHD nanoIPS panel with 240Hz refresh and DisplayHDR …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| MMD (AOC Philips)