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Foldables are 12% of Samsung’s US sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say EINNews quoted Counterpoint Research data on weekly sales of smartphones in the US which highlighted that 12% of Samsung’s total smartphone sales came from foldable smartphones. That is up from 0.6% …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market| USA

The Case for Screen Time

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A writer on a fatherhood blog has made a case for allowing children to enjoy screen time partly on the basis that with the rapid rate of development in the world …

Tags:Game Playing| The Metaverse

Is Niantic making its own AR smart glasses?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Niantic, the firm behind the Pokémon Go phenomenon, and a spin-out from Google in 2010, has launched a new development kit for AR. Although executives of the firm have spoken negatively …

Tags:Augmented Reality| The Metaverse

Hisense Digital Signage Expands to Germany

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Invidis reports that ITZ, a distributor that is owned by Bechtle, a leading European IT reseller, has signed up with Hisense to sell the firm’s B2B and digital signage display products …

Tags:Digital Signage| Hisense| LFD - Large Format Display| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

VIZIO reports 3Q 2021 results – Services Growing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio released its Q3 result and it highlighted that the firm made a gross profit of $57.3 million from its subscription and advertising services, compared to just $25.6 million on its …

Tags:Advertising| Financial Data| Smart TV| Vizio

Apple Says It Will Fix Face ID Failure on Third-Party Screen Repairs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported recently on problems for third party repairers after failures with Face ID after the change of displays (iFixit confirms iPhone 13 disables Face ID after third-party screen repair). However …

Tags:Apple| Right to Repair| Smartphones| warranty

Links Week Ending 12th November 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. TSMC, Sony to Open $7 Billion Chip …

Continental Receives First Major Order for OLED Displays in Automotive

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Tier 1 automotive supplier, Continental, said that it had received an order for OLEDs for automotive use (described as high volume production) valued at €1 billion. The display consists of two …

Tags:Automotive| OLEDs

Acer Doing Better Still – Especially in US Dollars

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer said that it hit its highest October revenue for seven years, up 9.8% year on year TO NT$28.01 billion ($1.06 billion) while the year to the end of October is …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data

Infocomm As Bad as You Can Imagine for Attendance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The DailyDooh, which rarely misses the chance to ‘kick a man when he’s down’, reported that attendence at the recent Infocomm 21 event was just 7,335, below earlier estimates. There were …

Tags:Covid-19| Infocomm 2021

Spain is “unique UHD test lab”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An executive from Cellnex Telecom, who is also VP of the UHD Spain Association has been quoted by Advanced Television as saying that: “Spain is a unique UHD test laboratory for …

Tags:Broadcast| Spain| UltraHD & 4K

A 12K Sensor Isn’t Necessarily a 12K Camera

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association had an interesting article that highlights that there is a difference between a 12K sensor and a 12K camera. The article compares in detail the Blackmagic Design (BMD) …

Tags:Cameras| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Testing