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China’s smartphone shipments dropped 11% YoY in Q4 2021, according to Counterpoint Research’s Q4 2021 Market Monitor. There was intense competition, with Apple ending on top and reaching its highest market share ever. HONOR increased its market share by more than two times from a year ago to become China’s second-biggest OEM for the first … Read more
What They Say Counterpoint Research put out a release highlighting the Chinese smartphone market and said that Honor, the Huawei spin-off, had doubled its sales, going from 7.5% in Q4 2020 to 16.7% in 2021, just ahead of Oppo and moving into second place behind Apple. The US firm also grew its share from 17.1% … Read more
What They Say Simula One has revealed a new stand-alone VR headset powered by a Intel i7 chip and running SumulaOS, a Linux distribution designed for VR. The unit, which will feature dual 2448 x 2448 LCDs at 90Hz will cost $2,799 and be available ‘no earlier than Q4 2022’. What We Think We’re planning … Read more
What They Say The 8K Association, in collaboration with Intel and Sharp NEC Display Solutions, is planning a ‘Fireside Chat’ on 9K broadcasting and professional displays. It is free to join, but registration is needed. It will last around an hour and take place at 11.00am EST on March 3rd 2022. What We Think If … Read more
What They Say Earlier this week, we listed in our ‘quick links’ a new Cooler Master 27″ GP27-FUS UltraHD monitor with DisplayHDR 1000 rating and with no pricing yet. Now we have spotted another, the 2560 x 1440 GP27-FQS 27″ monitor. Like the UltraHD version, it has a mini-LED backlight but is likely to sell … Read more
What They Say The Elec reports that BOE has had to reduce its shipments of OLEDs to Apple because of a shortage of driver chips which it is said to be buying from LX Semicon (formerly Silicon Works). It is said to be planning 2-3 million in the next two months. The paper said that … Read more
Leading Dutch technology start-up Aito announces a further investment – this time from the start-up and scale-up team of leading Dutch banking giant Rabobank. The additional funding, following the Spring 2021 raise of €4 million, provides the company with further finance to accelerate the growth and extend its award-winning finger sensing and haptic feedback solution … Read more
What They Say Business Insider reports that Roku is exploring the feasibility of making its own brand of smartTVs and apparently ran a focus group. Someone told the blog: “They showed different models, feature sets and names, sizes, price points,” The report also said that others confirmed that the idea has been ‘on the company … Read more
E Ink, the originator, pioneer, and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, announced they have received the Dark Sky Certification from the International Dark Sky Association (IDA). E Ink is the first display technology to be certified through the IDA. As a reflective technology, E Ink displays do not emit any light, and rely … Read more
What They Say The Korea Herald reports that labour unions at Samsung in Korea are threatening to go out on strike, which would be a first for the firm in over 50 years. The remark comes after the labour union’s arbitration with the management at the government agency National Labor Relations Commission fell through earlier … Read more
What They Say The Korea Herald reported that SK Hynix has ‘next generation’ memory chips that can process data as well as storing it. The firm claims that this can increase calculation times by ‘up to 16 times’ and potentially reducing power consumption of computers by 80%. The chips are know as process-in-memory or PIM. … Read more
What They Say Google has made blog post that highlights that it has a new version of the Chrome OS Flex operating system designed to transform old Macs and PCs into Chromebooks. The system needs to have 4GB of RAM and an Intel or AMD x86-64-bit compatible chipset. The software is free. What We Think … Read more
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