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LG reveals first 27″ 240Hz OLED gaming monitor – Probably WOLED?

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say We reported that LG Electronics has a new 27″ OLED monitor, the 27GR95QE-B, that we speculated that it used a WOLED panel from LG Display rather than the JOLED panel found …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED Monitors

Tablet Shipments rise over 20% sequentially in 3Q22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research said that tablet shipments rose 20% to 38.4 million units with increased orders from Apple. Apple and Samsung accounted for nearly 60% of volume in Q3 (Apple was 38.2%). …

Tags:Market Data| Supply Chain| tablets

BBC iPlayer Shows Strong Streaming for Sport

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The BBC today showed the England (6) v Iran (2) FIFA World Cup match in UltraHD with HLG HDR on its streaming iPlayer service. What We Think I felt the need …

Tags:BBC| OTT Video| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video

Google Maps to Support AR-based Live View

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Android Police reported that Google is rolling out an app called Live View that will overlay information onto the real world for users in some cities (London, Los Angeles, New York, …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Google| GPS

Niantic Shows AR Prototype & Nreal Air Supports Consoles

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We saw a couple more items after Qualcomm’s announcements last week.  9to5Google reported that Niantic showed a prototype of its new (“Not final”) design for an AR headset using the new Snapdragon …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Consoles

Ennostar Sues Amazon over Epistar Patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ennostart, the merged company of Epistar and Lextar, sent us a release in Chinese that said that the firm has started litigation in Texas, USA, charging Amazon of infringing ‘at least …

Tags:Amazon| LED| Litigation| Patents| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

Links Week Starting 21st November 2022

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 first part of this week.  Comcast To Bring Dolby Vision HDR World …

Tags:Advertising| Apple| Application Processors| Awards| China| Desktop Monitors| Events| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Korea| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphone Market| Sports and Stadiums| Voice Input

Top-5 notebook brands see shrinking shipments in October

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research reported that the combined shipments in October from the top five notebook brands (excluding Apple) were down 13% from September and nearly 40% down on last year. Lenovo went past …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Notebooks| ODMs & OEMs| Supply Chain

Too Late for Christmas iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hat-tip to Macworld for pointing out that the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max supply issues mean that it’s now too late to get one of those models in time for …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Smartphones| Supply Chain

India to Standardise on USB Type-C

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The India Times reports that India is to follow the EU in standardising on USB Type-C for electronic devices including smartphones, notebooks and tablets and the regulation could be in place …

Tags:Apple| India| USB

More on the HTC ‘Flowcus’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Yesterday we reported on the leak about a new HTC headset (New HTC Headset Leaked?). After the video that we reported went online, the creator was contacted with more information. The …

Tags:HTC| Virtual Reality

Qualcomm Has New AR-specific Chips and a Reference Design

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm has a new chip series, the AR2 Gen 1 that is intended for use in smartglasses. The processor, co-processor, and Wi-Fi 7 system combo is said to take up 40% less …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CPUs| Qualcomm| Semiconductors