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Samsung Pushes OLED for Laptops – with Under-display Camera

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Display has released a video showing a new under-OLED camera for laptops. This enables very narrow bezels and a 1mm lid thickness, saving 50gms in weight vs an LCD. What …

Tags:Notebooks| OLEDs| Samsung Display

MacBook Pros Will Scrap Touch Bar

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Mac quoted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo as saying that all new 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro models will have the OLED touch bar removed, with physical function keys only. The MagSafe …

Tags:Apple| Keyboards| Notebooks| OLEDs| Touch

Xiaomi foldable phone prototype leaks in spy photos

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GSMArena posted some ‘spy shots’ of a foldable smartphone from Xiaomi. The shots make the fold area look very visible. What We Think I have generally been very impressed with Xiaomi …

Tags:China| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Smartphones| USA| Xiaomi

LG & Samsung Boost OLED Material Patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported on patents for OLED materials filed in South Korea. LG companies lodged 939 patent filings from 2015 to 2019. Samsung was second with 442 filings and Doosan …

Tags:Korea| OLED Materials| Patents

Samsung Galaxy 21 Finally Gets Here

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Well, it’s all over the net if you want to read a lot, but in quick summary, Samsung held its Unpacked event to launch the Galaxy 21 series of smartphones, a …

Tags:OLEDs| Samsung| Smartphones

HTC GM Predicts ‘Rise Of All-In-Two’ VR Devices In 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an interview with Upload VR, HTC’s Graham Wheeler forecast that while the self-contained Oculus Quest 2 is proving quite a success, headsets that are designed to work with 5G smartphones …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HTC| Smartphones

Asus Latte is Very Portable

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Asus has a new mini LED projector, the ZenBeam Latte that is around the size of a large coffe cup. It produces 300 lumens of output at 720p resolution. It has …

Tags:Game Playing| LED Projectors| Voice Input

Samsung Display sues JOLED and ASUS

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung has filed a suit in the US claiming that JOLED and Asustek have infringed a patent (USPTO # 9,768,240) relating to transistor arrays. The patented technology is said to be …

Tags:JOLED| Litigation| Patents| Samsung

LG and Displax collaborate on a new PCap Touch Screen Overlay

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Business Solutions has done a deal to offer PCap touch overlays for its monitors in 22”, 32″, 43″, 55″, 65″, 75” and 86” sizes based on technology from Displax of …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Pcap (Procap)| Touch

Rohinni Doubles Mini LED Placement Speed with New 100 Hz

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Rohinni announced that it has increased the speed of its miniLED placement head to 100Hz which, it claims, doubles the speed and halves the cost of placing miniLEDs compared to its …

Tags:MiniLED| Production Equipment

ASUS Republic of Gamers Boosts Portables & Adds Monitor

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Asus attended CES officially this year (it has previously had its own display in a hotel) and had plenty to talk about. Flow X13 13″ 360° ultraportable with 3480 x 2400 …

Tags:Artem Alekseenko

Reasonance Can Power a Wireless TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reasonance of Russia announced at CES that it had developed a system to allow wireless power to be transmitted with enough capacity to power a 40″ TV using 120W at a …

Tags:CES 2021| TVs (TV Sets)| Wireless Charging