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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)

Links Week Ending 24th December 2021

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 second part of this week. Samsung 2022 TVs, Nvidia RTX 20/30 GPUs …

Tags:Amazon| GPUs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Microdisplays| MicroLED| OLEDs| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphones| sony| TVs (TV Sets)| VideoConferencing

Magic Leap Expects ML2 Next Year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap CEO, Peggy Johnson, spoke to Bloomberg Technology in a 6 minute video and said that its next headset will be available in the middle of 2022. It will be …

Tags:Augmented Reality

TCL Resumes Google TV Sales in the US

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported that TCL’s Google-based TVs were no longer on sale in Best Buy in the US after some problems, but the sets have now been updated with new firmware that …

Tags:Best Buy| Google| Operating Systems| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)

LG Display aims to take transparent OLEDs to Europe and the U.S.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that LG Display has been promoting sales of its transparent OLEDs to the architectural industry with executives also promoting the idea to the automotive segment. The firm sees Europe …

Tags:LG Displays (LGD)| Transparent Displays