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Astro Slide 5G is the world’s first 5G mobile device with a full physical backlit keyboard. It is the first of Planet’s devices to feature the new patented RockUp™ slider hinge, transforming from a 5G smartphone into a powerful palmtop computer thanks to its physical keyboard – available in 24 different keyboard layouts. Powered by … Read more
What They Say The UK-based audio specialist Bowers & Wilkins sent us a press release (BW_Formovie.pdf) to say that it has done a deal with Formovie, a Chinese company founded by Xiaomi and Appotronics, that is developing ‘cinema-pro’ quality UST laser projectors for the Chinese market using the latest ALPD RGB+ technology and DLP imager. … Read more
Ikegami will promote the latest additions to its range of broadcast production camera systems and monitors at Hamburg Open 2022. The show is scheduled to take place from Wednesday January 19th (10:00 – 18.00) through Thursday 20th (10.00 – 16:00) in Hall 8 of the Congress Center Hamburg. Focus of attention on Ikegami stand H.339 … Read more
What They Say Huawei launched, as expected, a new folding, clamshell smartphone, the P50 Pocket, that combines a folding 6.9″ 120Hz 21:9 (279O x 1188) resolution. What was not expected is that the smartphone has a 1″ round cover OLED display which can be used for a range of notifications and has its own widgets. … Read more
What They Say HDMI has introduced HDMI 2.1a which adds a single feature, “Source-Based Tone Mapping” which is a way for source and sink devices to communicate on optimum tone mapping. There are other minor ‘tweaks’ and bug fixes. SBTM allows a source device to find out the capability of the final display and can … Read more
Sisvel International S.A. announced that it has signed a worldwide patent license agreement with Panasonic Corporation for Sisvel’s VP9 Licensing Program covering the sale and distribution of Panasonic’s VP9 enabled products. “Sisvel has a longstanding partnership with Panasonic. The Company is already a licensee of other Sisvel licensing programs in different technological fields and we … Read more
What They Say Counterpoint Research reported on the long term trend in smartphone shipments since 2012, by brand. It points ou that Samsung has been the biggest brand on an annual basis for all that time, but has not been top in each quarter. The firm has had competition from Huawei/Honor and Apple several times … Read more
What They Say CES looks less and less appealing as a number of big tech names have dropped out. Amazon, Meta and Twitter have dropped out and the latest we saw withdrawing was Lenovo which usually has a significant presence in the Venetian – hiring one of the restaurants for the whole event (and a … Read more
What They Say The Caixin Chinese news source reports that LeTV, which hit really difficult financial conditions in the past (LeEco Still Struggling to Survive and LeEco Brags about its Debt), has decided to raise employee salaries and restore compensation for expenses to pre-pandemic levels. This has been enabled by a ‘financially sound year’. What … Read more
I was struggling to come up with a topic for today’s column then I saw an interesting release (LG’s Award-Winning Premium Monitors Designed With Modern Home-Office Workers in Mind) about a new ‘Dual Up’ monitor that LG Electronics will commercialise using a new 16:18 aspect ratio panel previously shown by LG Display. The shape is … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Samsung 2022 TVs, Nvidia RTX 20/30 GPUs to support HDR10+ Gaming Sony to show new MicroLED in Barcelona Loewe launches colorful 4K LCD TVs under new ‘We’ sub-brand … Read more
What They Say Magic Leap CEO, Peggy Johnson, spoke to Bloomberg Technology in a 6 minute video and said that its next headset will be available in the middle of 2022. It will be intended for the enterprise market. She said that one of the applications that it is working on is the use of … Read more
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