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Fans Make a Folding iPhone

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A group of engineers in China has disassembled an iPhone X and re-assembled it using a Motorola Razr folding mechanism to create a kind of ‘foldable iPhone’. There’s a 17 minute …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| iPhone

Nvidia Down in Q3 FY 2023

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nvidia’s results for Q3 of its financial yeat to the end of October, with revenue down 17% YoY and 12% QoQ to $5,931 with margin also down 11.6 points from last …

Tags:Financial Data| GPUs| Semiconductors

trinamiX Face Authentication Optimized for New Snapdragon Mobile Platform at Snapdragon Summit 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say BASF spin-off, Trinamix GmbH said at the Snapdragon Summit that it has certified face recognition technology for smartphones that can sit behind an OLED and is included in a Qualcomm reference …

Tags:face recognition| OLEDs| Qualcomm| Smartphones

New HTC Headset Leaked?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A YouTuber, Brad Lynch, appears to have leaked details of the design of the next HTC VR headset which combines the slim form factor of the Vive Flow with the standalone …

Tags:HTC| Virtual Reality

Samsung’s Galaxy M54 OLED to be developed by BOE and CSOT

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that a new OLED display for a budget Samsung smartphone for the Southeast Asia market, the M54, is being developed by BOE and CSOT. It is unclear whether …

Tags:BOE| CSOT| OLEDs| Smartphones

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Supports 8K60p AV1 Decoding

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm has announced its latest APU, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which adds hardware support for decoding AV1 video at 8K60fps with HDR support for HDR10+, HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision. (Qualcomm is adding …

Magic Leap 2 is the best AR headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap has taken a fair amount of criticism in recent years largely because it ‘over-promised’ and rais nearly $2 billion to build AR headsets. However a review by Engadget was …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Testing

Pimax Adds a Console that Becomes a Headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Several weeks ago, VR headset maker Pimax released a new device that is called the Pimax Portal that has been described as a Nintendo Switch that can be used for VR. …

CE Flat in Germany – Smartphone Value up but Other Segments Down

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GfU in Germany said that the market for home electronics in Germany was stable in the first three quarters of 2022 and was up just 0.1% on last year at …

Tags:Germany| Market Data

US TV Inflation Stays Negative as Overall Inflation Continues

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Along with panel pricing, DSCC has been tracking historical TV price data for the US that is compiled by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as part of its Consumer Price …

Tags:Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with high iFixit score

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say iFixit had a look at a couple of devices recently. The Meta Quest Pro (the take apart used 146 screws!) which looks so complex that it may be unrepairable although it …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| Microsoft| Repair| tablets| Virtual Reality

Mid-week Links – Week Ending 25th 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 middle of this week. HT to FlatPanelsTV.com – here is the Tiny …