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The iPhone 12 Mini Makes Me Sick (Literally)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in IEEE Spectrum highlights issues with OLED display flicker. Tekla S. Perry upgraded from an older iPhone SE to an iPhone 12 Mini as the smaller display was appealing. …

Tags:Apple| Human Visual System (HVS)| iPhone| warranty

Kopin Outlines Material for Pancake Optics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kopin reported that it has developed an all-plastic ‘pancake’ optical lens system for VR, AR and MR applications. The lens system provides an image equivalent to a 250″ (635cm) diagonal display …

Kateeva Announces Strategic Partnership with Pixelligent

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ten days ago, Kateeva announced that it had made a deal with Pixelligent to support the use of PixJet high-refractive index materials in inkjet encapsulation of OLEDs with an optimised planarisation …

Tags:Collaboration| InkJet Deposition| OLED Materials| Optics

Strategy Analytics: Samsung and Vivo are World’s Fastest Growing 5G Smartphone Vendors in Q1 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although Apple is dominating the 5G smartphone market, with 29.7% share in Q1 2021, Strategy Analytics said that Samsung and Vivo saw the biggest growth from Q4 at 79% and 62% …

Tags:5G| Forecasts| Market Data| Smartphones

Windows 11 screenshots leak, show new Start menu and more

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 interface has leaked. The design is said to be based on the Windows 10X initiative which was intended to update many aspects of the operating system, but …

Tags:Notebooks| Operating Systems| Windows

Samsung’s The Terrace TV Receives Industry-First Outdoor Visibility Verification From UL

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung put out a press release to announce that its ‘The Terrace’ outdoor TV has been verified for ‘outdoor visibility’ by US testing organisation, Underwriters Laboratories. This is the first set …

Tags:Outdoor Displays| Samsung| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)

Sony’s Next-gen VR Headset Will Use Samsung OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg published an interesting article based on discussions with JDI that included a forecast from Omdia on the increasing penetration of LCD into the VR headset market as OLED makers focus …

YouTube TV hands out Chromecast, TiVo devices ahead of 4K launch

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Fierce Video reported that YouTube has been offering free Chromecast or TiVo devices to some subscribers to allow the display of UltraHD content. “To ensure our loyal YouTube TV members have …

Tags:Google| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video| Tivo

Infocomm Orlando Opens For Registration

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Infocomm has opened registrations for its event which is due to take place in Orlando, Florida from October 23 to 29th 2021. What We Think Well, I don’t think I’ll be …

Tags:Infocomm 2021

Acer Still Sees Strong Chromebook & Gaming Sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer reported that it May sales revenues were the best for seven years at $897 million, up 22.9% year on year. YTD sales were $4.38 billion, up 36.6% year on year. …

Tags:Acer| Chromebooks| Financial Data| Game Playing

The US NSF grants $256,000 to Amorphyx

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The US developer of amorphous metal semiconductor devices, Amorphyx, has been awarded $256K as a grant to help develop the company’s technology for driving AMOLED and microLED displays. The news was …

Tags:AMOLED| MicroLED| TFT

Vuereal demonstrates a transparent microLED display, to start pilot production soon

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MicroLED-info published a video with a demonstration of a transparent microLED display from VueReal. The transparency is quoted as 85% with brightness at 3,000 cd/m². What We Think The transparency comes …

Tags:MicroLED| Transparent Displays