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What They Say An apparent leak from China shows how Apple’s iPhone 14 displays may line up with the Pro models using ‘hole and pill’ configurations for the camera and sensors rather than a notch. The smaller models are 6.1″ and the larger is 6.7″. although the Pro models are calculated to have a slightly … Read more
What They Say Sony has posted a video showing its development of Holographic Optical Elements in R&D. The material can be used to show apparently 3D images when illuminated by a projector. The firm is showing the device at Siggraph which is said to have reached 3,000 cd/m² of luminance and over 85% transparency using … Read more
What They Say Some sad news this morning. Electrosonic founder Bob Simpson has died at the age of 82. Electrosonic said: To complement his massive contributions to Electrosonic, Bob was an industry figure, publishing several books including; ‘Videowalls – The Book of the Big Electronic Image’ and ‘Lighting Control – Technology and Applications as well … Read more
What They Say Among the rush of quarterly market data on Q1, Strategy Analytics (SA) released its data on the tablet market, globally. A surprise was that Apple actually grew from Q4 2021 to Q1 2022 with shipments of 15.8 million and 39% market share. Still it was down 6% year on year from Q1 … 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. AOC: New gaming display with 280 Hz and 1 ms G2G Superconducting Breakthrough May Change the Chip Industry Dramatically (eventually!) Strand Consult calls on Eutelsat to stop supporting … Read more
What They Say GSMArena had a look at the Huawei Mate Pad which is a 10.3″ device using a bluetooth pen-supporting Carta HD E Ink display with 1872 x 1404 resolution (227ppi). It is based on HarmonyOS 2.0, optimised for the device. Battery life is long and there is 22.5W fast charger that can give … Read more
What They Say Quoting the Korean IT Home as source, Patently Apple reported that Samsung Display’s CEO, Joo-Sun Choi has met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and asked him not to reduce the firm’s commitment to buy OLEDs. From an initial plan for 220 million iPhones in 2022, with 160 million from Samsung, Apple is … Read more
Global smartphone shipments showed a negative growth of 12.9% compared to the same period last year according to Omdia’s Global Smartphone shipment preliminary result 1Q22 report. The report also revealed that in the first quarter, smartphone shipments recorded 308.0 million units and that the negative growth trend has been the case for the last three … Read more
Worldwide tablet shipments reached 38.4 million units during the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22), posting a decline of 3.9% year over year as demand slowed, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Shipments are still above pre-pandemic levels; however, growth has softened, which is an indication … Read more
LCD TV panel prices have been declining since July 2021 and the trend is expected to continue throughout Q2 2022. With an improvement in the Covid19 situation and a shift away from STH (Stay-at-home) and WFH (Work-from-home) policies, market demand for TVs, monitors and notebooks are all forecast to be lower in 2022 compared to … Read more
Plato was squarely on center when he advised that “the beginning is the most important part of the work.” Poor [technology] implementation from the very outset of a project always spirals us towards the landfill of technological promise. In last month’s article, “Avoiding the Landfill of Educational Promise” we surmised “if technology initiatives (and your … Read more
What They Say XR Today reports that Shenzhen MetaVision Tech Co has announced a new VR device, the Particle, weighing just 250 gms and with the following specification: A lightweight form factor of just 250 grammes at one-fourth the thickness of typical VR headsets A high-definition (HD) micro-display from “British tech firm and strategic partner” … Read more
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