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What They Say Counterpoint Research reported its data for the premium smartphone market in 2021 and said that it was up 24% to reach 27% of the overall market. (Counterpoint regards the market for handsets as above $400 at wholesale price). Research Director Tarun Pathak said, “The premium market growth in 2021 was driven by … Read more
Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of visual test and measurement solutions for light sources and displays, announces the release of its new XRE Lens for near-eye display testing of extended reality (XR) headsets and smart glasses. Utilizing patent-pending technology that features electronic focus and configuration options, the XRE Lens offers flexibility for evaluating visual … Read more
What They Say DTV Europe has forecast that the Advertising-supported streaming market will hit revenues of €259 billion by 2025, quoting Omdia as the source. The firm expects revenues of $174 billion this year, but with strong growth to the end of the period. The forecast also covers linearTV and SVOD subscription revenues as well … Read more
What They Say Strategy Analytics released its estimate for the revenue shares of the main panel makers in OLEDs for smartphones in 2021. It had SDC at 49% of the market which it judged at $46 billion, which was more than 5% growth. Jeffrey Mathews , Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics commented, “OLED display panels … Read more
E Ink, the originator, pioneer, and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, announced the launch of the latest generation of their Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP) platform, E Ink Gallery Plus. This next generation, full color ePaper module, has a color gamut ideally reaching 60,000, an improvement over the earlier generations. E Ink Gallery Plus … Read more
What They Say The Verge reported that Sony is planning to add a VRR feature “in the coming months”. The system is said to be able to support the feature even if games have not been optimised for it, although it can be disabled if it causes artefacts. What We Think This is a good … Read more
OTT TV episodes and movies revenues for 22 Asia Pacific countries will reach $52 billion in 2027; up by 62% from the $32 billion recorded in 2021. From the $20 billion additional revenues, China will add $3 billion, India $3 billion, South Korea $3 billion and Japan $5 billion. Indian revenues will more than double. … Read more
UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company specialising in retail, has integrated Ultraleap hand tracking to provide touchless interaction for their end-to-end retail solution – UST Vision Checkout. UST’s frictionless solution is a self-checkout POS that uses computer vision to identify SKUs. UST has integrated Ultraleap’s hand tracking hardware and award-winning TouchFree application into this … Read more
MICLEDI Microdisplays, a leading developer of microLED arrays for augmented reality (AR) glasses, announced a manufacturing collaboration with GlobalFoundries (GF) to enable AR glasses to achieve the brightness, resolution, power, size, and economies of scale needed to become affordable for consumers. Under the agreement, MICLEDI’s solution will be combined with GF’s 22FDX® feature-rich platform that … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the moving computer images known as GIFs, died from Covid. His achievement was memorialized online by, well, GIFs (NYT) Nike Has ‘fake … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. I haven’t been watching audio closely, so hadn’t noticed that HP Inc had bought Poly (Plantronics + Polycom) for $1.7 billion. Does anyone else remember the Plantronics … Read more
Newly released data from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that Africa’s overall mobile phone market suffered a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 11.3% in Q4 2021 to total 48.6 million units. The feature phone market was down 14.3% to 27.1 million units, while smartphone shipments declined 7.1% to 21.5 million units. Africa’s major smartphone … Read more
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