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What They Say An article in Business Korea last week, quoting data from Omdia, pointed out that Samsung shipped more smartphones with LCDs than with OLEDs in 2021. Samsung Electronics shipped 135.8 million LCD smartphones and 135.1 million OLED smartphones in 2021 as LCD smartphone shipments grew by about 41% while OLED model shipments slid … Read more
What They Say Xiaomi launched three 12 series smartphones. The displays are: Xiaomi 12 – 6.28″ 1080 x 2400 AMOLED – 120Hz, , 1,100 cd/m² $749 Xiaomi 12 Pro – 6.7″ 1440 x 3200 AMOLED, LTPO, 10-120Hz, 1.500 cd/m² $999 Xiaomi 12X – 6.28″ FHD+ AMOLED – 120Hz, HDR10+, 1,100 cd/m² $649 The range is … Read more
E Ink Holdings, the leading innovator of electronic ink technology and Avalue, an industrial PC solution provider, announced their joint collaboration in offering the next-generation Digital Paper Tablet Solution for Business. The Digital Paper Tablet is based off the product developed by Linfiny, a joint development between E Ink and Sony Semiconductor Solutions. The Digital … Read more
What They Say Digitimes highlighted the development of the miniLED market and detailed the ranges of sets from Samsung, LG, TCL and Hisense. It quoted an earlier forecast from Omdia that put the number to be sold in 2021 at around 4.9 million units, but that turned out to be only 2.1 million in reality … Read more
SPREE Interactive, a specialist in multiplayer free-roam VR attractions for the location-based entertainment market, announces its latest team-based family friendly game, Anteater Picnic Panic. Developed as a sequel to the popular SPREE Arena game, Anteater Picnic Panic, encourages strategy and teamwork as their Anteater avatars must defend the picnic that is under attack from the … Read more
Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of test and measurement solutions for displays and light sources, announces that it will host a webinar with GlobalSpec (Engineering360) to introduce a new solution for evaluating display quality as seen by the user in extended reality (XR) headsets and smart glasses. “Replicating Human Vision for XR Display Testing” … Read more
What They Say Wearables-era.com published an interview with John Fan, CEO of Kopin, looking at developnments in AR/VR. He said that Disruption of markets by new technologies often happen from doing one thing very well, rather than solving ‘everything’ He pointedly avoided commenting on any plans of Apple in AR/VR In reference to Qualcomm’s 5G … 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. Kuo: only iPhone 14 Pro models to get ‘A16’ chip, standard models to retain A15 In Depth: Chinese Firms Bending Over Backward to Offer Foldable Phones ($$) … Read more
What They Say The Information’s Reality Check reported that Microsoft is “expecting negative feedback from the customer” in its development of a headset, known as IVAS and based on the HoloLens. The article suggested that the issues are related to low light performance and reliability. The project had previously been reported to have been suffering … Read more
Cumulative shipments of foldable smartphones distributed worldwide by the end of 2021 recorded 11.5 million units for the first time since the first foldable smartphone was launched in 2019 according to Omdia‘s 4Q21 smartphone model market tracker. Due to the high price barrier, sales of early foldable smartphones were limited. However, from the second half … Read more
What They Say AUO and Innolux released their results for February. Innolux was down in revenue by 8.6% on January and down 13.4% on last year to $769 million. Large panels were down 15.0% in quantity to 10.55 million, while small/medium panels were down by 10.3% to 20.64 million. AUO was also down on January, … Read more
What They Say DSCC published some data on its blog that looked at displays for ‘advanced’ displays as part of its Advanced IT Display report. The firm said that the Apple 12.9″ iPad Pro has done particularly well with panel shipments of 1.9 million units in Q4 2021, up 90% QoQ and bringing the advanced … Read more
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