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Galaxy S22 Ultra Photo leak appears to show the S-Pen

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A leaked image of the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra that appears to have a slot for an S-Pan and curved edges like the Samsung Note series. To accommodate the pen, …

Tags:Pen Input| Samsung| Smartphones

BOE’s 3rd flexible OLED line at Chongqing starts production

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec has reported that BOE has started production at its B12 flexible OLED display production line. The blog reports that there are three stages to the development and it is …

Tags:BOE| OLED Fabs| Small Medium Panel Supply

Samsung Pauses Plans for 70-80″ microLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung Electronics has taken a planned 70″-80″ microLED out of its range of TVs for 2022, leaving an 89″, a 101″ and a 114″ set in the …

Tags:MicroLED| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)

No More Burning Displays – At Least in DACH

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis reported a talk at the Best Medientechnik 2021 event that highlighted the issues of fireproofing of digital signage. The integration supplier, Ben Hur, collaborated with Lang AG and the Job …

Tags:Digital Signage| Health and Safety

SES adds HD+ IP for Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SES has extended the provision of its German HD+ service to IP only subscribers. The service provides 50 HD channels for €6 per month. There is also an option for HD+ …

Tags:HD+ (Germany)| OTT Video| SES

‘Meh’taverse Apologies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies – yesterday our CMS decided that it should publish an article on the ‘Meh’ taverse by a journalist I know just after we had run our daily email test and …

Tags:| The Metaverse

AUO & Innolux Report on October

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AUO & Innolux released their results for October. Innolux was up in revenue by 7.4% on last year, but down by 9.0% from September in value. The firm was down 7.1% …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Innolux| Taiwan

Sony Files for Foveated Rendering Patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UploadVR reported that Sony has applied for a patent to cover ‘Eye Tracking To Adjust Region-Of-Interest (ROI) For Compressing Images For Transmission’. Foveated rendering is explicitly mentioned later in the document. …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Patents| PlayStation| Virtual Reality

Google could release its first foldable Pixel in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Google said that Google may have a foldable Pixel smartphone in 2022. The site suggests that the firm might have to downgrade the 2021 Pixel 6 smartphone which is bigger than …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Google| Smartphones

Meta to Retail Headsets?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The New York Times reported that Meta has discussed possibly opening retail stores (probably to be called Meta Store) globally to promote its VR and, later, AR hardware. Work on the …

Tags:Apple| | The Metaverse| Virtual Reality