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iPhone 12 teardown showcases South Korean parts makers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei, in cooperation with Tokyo-based research specialist Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, stripped down an iPhone 12 and found that 26.8% of the value of the smartphone was accounted for by components from …

Tags:iPhone| Smartphones| Teardowns

Star Alliance Biometrics is launched in Frankfurt and Munich

by Bob Raikes

What They Say NEC said that Star Alliance Biometrics has been introduces for frequent flyers at Frankfurt and Munich airports for customers of Lufthansa and Swiss International Air Lines. The system uses touchless biometrics …

Tags:Aviation| NEC| Security

Omdia: “Next 2 years a marketer’s dream for 4K”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Speaking at the Spanish UHD Summit (no doubt virtually!), Omdia’s Senior Research Manager, Paul Gray, has said that he thought that 2021 will be a “tremendous” year for the take-up of …

Tags:Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)

Apple aims to adopt tandem OLEDs in its next iPad Pro tablets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Apple would like to adopt OLED for its iPad Pro tablets next year, but has asked LG Display and Samsung Display to develop tandem OLEDs, with a …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Samsung Display

(Mis)understanding HDMI 2.1

by Bob Raikes

What They Say FlatpanelsHD as done a deepish dig into the weeds of HDMI2.1 to try to illuminate some of the aspects of the bandwidth specifications often quoted on TVs. It also looks at …

Tags:HDMI

OOH Ads Seen As More Trustworthy

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A survey conducted in the US and completed by 2,000 adults has suggested that Out-of-Home advertising are seen as more trustworthy and relevant than other advertising. The level has increased this …

Tags:Digital Signage| DOOH| Market Data

This weeks links week ending 27th November 2020

by Bob Raikes

Samsung strengthens Smart TV voice capabilities by adding Google Assistant to 2020 TVs along with Alexa and Bixby Innolux TV assembly lines running at full capacity Digitimes said that the firm’s set factories are …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Graphics Software| Innolux| PlayStation| Samsung| Smart TV| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Sega Sammy to quit game arcade business in Japan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In digging around about The Void, the VR-based arcade firm, we spotted that a couple of weeks ago, the Japan Times reported that Sega Sammy Holdings will sell up its arcade …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)

Sub-second video latency from Limelight

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Limelight Networks said that it can supply online streamed video on a global scale with ‘sub-second latency’. This should allow interactive video applications and the following applications. Live sports – In-event …

Tags:Game Playing| Streaming Video

Samsung Display ordered to compensate employee for patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that an employee of Samsung Display has been awarded compensation to a staff member by a court in Seoul for a patent relating to oxide TFTs in G6 …

Tags:Employment and Redundancies| Patents