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Strategy Analytics: realme Becomes Europe’s Fastest Growing Smartphone Brand in 2021

According to new research from Strategy Analytics, realme is the fastest growing smartphone brand in Europe in 2021. Abhilash Kumar, Industry Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said “ realme’s smartphone shipments in Europe grew +500% YoY and +548% YoY in Q4 2021 and 2021 respectively. It managed to become the fastest growing smartphone brand in both … Read more

Links Week Starting 28th February 2022

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. We were sad to see that VGX expert, Doug Trumbull had died last month. Around five years ago, Chris visited his place. (A Visit to Trumbull Studios) CTA: … Read more

TCL Reinforces its Commitment to 5G and Expands Portfolio with New Smartphones, Tablets, and CPEs at Mobile World Congress 2022

TCL, a pioneer in display technology and affordable, premium smart experiences, unveils a range of smart devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022. Reinforcing TCL’s mission to provide 5G connectivity for all, the mobile announcements include an expanded TCL 30 Series line-up, with five new smartphones including a feature-rich 5G model. These are announced alongside … Read more

New Galaxy Book2 Pro Series Enables Work-From-Anywhere Flexibility With Peace-of-Mind Security

Samsung Electronics announced the Galaxy Book2 Pro series, a flagship PC lineup featuring the Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 with S Pen functionality and Galaxy Book2 Pro with 5G. Both form factors combine the flexibility and versatility needed for today’s evolving work and learning lifestyles and are built with Samsung’s mobile DNA. The result is a … Read more

Tanvas Video Shows a Haptic-enabled Flexible AMOLED

What They Say Haptic technology supplier, Tanvas of the US, posted a series of videos showing its haptic technology demonstrated on a flexible OLED. The 12.1″ display uses Tanvas PET film-based touch and haptic technology and because it combines touch and haptics, it avoids extra layers in the display stack. Earlier in February, Tanvas said … Read more

Fatigue, Techlash, and the Great Escape in Education

I never wanted to write this article. Or maybe I really did intend to write it all along, having predicted this all would happen exactly a year ago. I predicted a techlash coming from educators who were tiring of the stresses accompanying the pandemic. In my article “The Worst of Times: Education in the Crosshairs” … Read more

NEC, Optoma, Panasonic and Sony Have Multiple Models on PMA’s “Top 5” Lists in January

PMA Research, the worldwide market information experts on front projectors, has posted highlights from their most recent Projector Tracking Service results to the “Top-Selling Projectors” area of their website. For more than 25 years now, PMA Research has collected monthly sell-through data from leading U.S. projector dealers, retailers, web resellers, and distributors. Their Tracking Service … Read more

SmartViser EU Energy Efficiency Project Announcement

SmartViser, a leader in mobile test automation, has announced its involvement in the European Commission initiative part of the Circular Economy Action Plan 2020. SmartViser has started collaborating with the EU commission since July 2021 to provide a solution and a testing methodology for the Energy labelling requirements for smartphones and tablets. The Circular Electronics … Read more

An Inflection Point on Blue OLED Materials

For more than two decades, OLED has had a particularly big weakness. Like other LEDs, it has always had challenges with producing blue light. But OLED material maker UDC may have made a significant breakthrough. It’s over two decades, since I made myself ‘persona non grata’ when an OLED developer in the UK held a … Read more

After Record-Breaking Preorders, Samsung Announces Global Availability of New Galaxy S22 Series and Galaxy Tab S8 Series

Samsung Electronics announced its category-redefining Galaxy S22 smartphones and Galaxy Tab S8 series are available in markets around the world following record-breaking preorders. The Galaxy S22 series and the Galaxy Tab S8 series saw more preorders within the first week than any other Samsung smartphone and tablet to date. Preorders for the Galaxy S22 series … Read more