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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, Paris, San Francisco, and Tokyo) The change adds a camera icon to the Maps app and when it is used and … Read more
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 AR2 Gen 1 headset which includes better user comfort and with a target weight of less than 250 gms (8.8oz). The … Read more
Rtings.com, the US-based testing and review site, is conducting an interesting test of the longevity of TVs as they have a lot of sets that they keep after they have reviewed them. Looking at their comments about all the things they took into account got me thinking about issues of lifetime and reliability. First, what … Read more
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 13’ Epistar patents in its 4-Series 43″ and 50″ TVs. The request to the court is to stop sales and pay … Read more
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 Cup Coverage To Subscribers Apple Silicon Supports 48-Year-Old Intel 8080 via Secret Extension Vertu, Motorola, Xiaomi eye Korean smartphone market as … Read more
Samsung Electronics announced exciting new ways for gamers to experience game streaming with the addition of new partners and the introduction of game streaming to select 2021 Samsung TV models1 and 4K games, further delivering on its promise of bringing the future of gaming to consumers across the globe. Antstream and Blacknut Joining Samsung’s Game Streaming … Read more
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 HP, but Dell was the only one to grow, but that was because of a weak September. Acer and Asus both … Read more
Premium smartphone (priced more than $400) shipments in the key Southeast Asian markets* increased 29% YoY in Q3 2022, according to Counterpoint Research’s Southeast Asia Monthly Smartphone Channel Share Tracker. On the other hand, total smartphone shipments declined 10% YoY during the quarter. Southeast Asia is still facing macroeconomic headwinds. This has resulted in weak business and consumer … Read more
Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced that it has been named a CES® 2023 Innovation Awards winner in the Wearable Technology category for Vuzix Ultralite™, a new smart glasses solution which the Company intends to offer as an OEM platform. This is the Company’s nineteenth consecutive year taking … Read more
Omdia’s latest Smartphone display market tracker indicates that LTPO-AMOLED for smartphones will grow by 94% year-on-year (YoY) by the end of 2022 and will maintain growth levels of 25% YoY in 2023 in sluggish smartphone display market. In 2022, Smartphone display demand is decreasing to 1,425 million that fall by 18% YoY due to the reaction to … Read more
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 Christmas. What We Think I checked the local situation and it’s the same with deliveries of 28th December quoted on the … Read more
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 by 2024. Separately, The Verge said, quoting Ming-Chi Kuo that only higher end iPhone 15 models will support faster data through … Read more
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