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Nanosys Display Show Highlights QD-OLED

What They Say The Nanosys Display Show on YouTube, hosted by Brian Berkeley, spoke to Samsung about the QD-OLED technology that Samsung Display, Dell and Sony showed at CES 2022. Chirag Shah of Samsung and Berkeley spoke for just under an hour. Topics covered included: Why blue for the OLED layer and what about lifetime … Read more

Samsung Raises the Bar with Ultra Versions of S22 and Tab S8

In an era when annual product refreshes have become expected, probably one of the hardest things for any tech company to do is generate excitement for its latest round. Inevitably there’s discussion about the more incremental changes that happen from year to year instead of big explosive additions in capabilities, technology, and usability. On many … Read more

Omdia: Display Maker BOE Takes Lead in Large Area TFT LCD Shipments as Pent-Up Demand Sees Industry Set Records

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Latest research from Omdia has found that Chinese display maker BOE has led the market in shipments of large area thin-film-transistor (TFT) LCD displays in December 2021, both in units and total area shipped. This accounts for nearly one-third of whole unit shipments, as the industry set new records for shipments for the month and … Read more

BMW Expands MyModes Interfaces

What They Say Among the items announced by BMW at CES, there was a boost in the number of different interfaces for its BMW My Modes system. There are now five settings, up from the initial three of Sport, Efficient and Personal. There are now Relax and Expressive modes and these have up to 10 … Read more

Developers have uncovered references to a new Apple AR/VR operating system

What They Say Developers have reported that there are references to a ‘RealityOS’ in Apple code. The existence of the OS was first suggested by Bloomberg back in 2017. (Apple Readying Standalone AR Headset for 2020 Release?) References to realityOS have been found in the open source dyld repo and in the App Store upload … Read more

Samsung unveiled three each Galaxy S22 phones and Tab 8 Tablets

What They Say Samsung held its Unpacked event and announced new smartphones and a tablet. Full infographics are here and here. The key points from a display perspective were: S22 has a 6.1″ 1080 x 2340/1,300 cd/m² peak display, 3,700 mAh battery and costs $800 in the US. Cameras are 50MP, 10MP telephoto and 12mp … Read more

Sharp Launches New Series of Bright 4K Ultra-HD Professional LCD Displays for Commercial Environments

Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), introduced the PN-HS and PN-HY 4K Ultra-HD Professional LCD Monitor Series, offering vivid, high-definition signage solutions to showcase lifelike images with incredible realism. Built for commercial and professional environments, the PN-HS and PN-HY professional displays are available in three large … Read more

AUO & Innolux Release January Data

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What They Say AUO and Innolux released their results for January with the former saying that although it was down in revenue by 12.4% from December 2021, it was up by 4.5% year on year. The revenue decline was in line with the area reduction at 12.2% at just under $1 billion. Innolux said that … Read more

Breaking the Rules With Galaxy Tab S8 Series: The Biggest, Boldest, Most Versatile Galaxy Tablet Ever

Samsung Electronics announced its new Galaxy Tab S8 series, the Galaxy Tab S8 and S8+, and the first-ever Tab S8 Ultra tablet in the lineup with the biggest, boldest display and most powerful performance Galaxy Tab S has ever offered. Sophisticated hardware, premium productivity features and the seamless ecosystem Galaxy users count on are combined … Read more