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What They Say Microsoft has released details of its Windows 11 operating system upgrade. Tom’s Hardware published a good summary. Windows 11 will be a free upgrade by ‘holiday 2021’ Not all PCs will be supported. You need TPM 2.0 and a 9″ display with 720P and a GPU compatible with DirectX 12 Even computers … 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 first part of this week. Sharp Europe launches new ‘Frameless’ 4K Android TV ranges Comcast’s Plan to Sell Xfinity Flex-powered Smart TVs at Walmart: What We Know Today TCL’s wearable display glasses will … Read more
What They Say DXO tested the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (Snapdragon) display which it found was ‘almost entirely’ identical scores to the Exynos-based version. The site liked the performance, with good readability in most conditions (although colour performance was degraded under sunlight), a satisfying experience when watching HDR10 videos and good smoothness and frame … Read more
While at home the past year, many have turned to their tablets for streaming, gaming, learning and more screen time.1 As the lines separating our relaxation time from hours spent working or learning start to blur, Lenovo is helping consumers rediscover their happy place with mobile experiences that make adapting to today’s new hybrid lifestyle … Read more
What They Say Lenovo announced the Yoga Tab 13 which is a 13″ Android tablet with a built-in microHDMI port so that it can connect to another device to act as a monitor. It has a 2160 x 1350 (16:10) LTPS display with 400 cd/m² of output and 100% of sRGB. It supports Dolby Vision. … Read more
What They Say A group from Michigan University has a new electrode for OLEDs that helps extract light from OLEDs. Without special treatment, around 80% of the light from an OLED device is emitted in angles that do not allow light extraction. The most significant layer in this is an ITO electrode. The group developed … Read more
What They Say We reported on the new Philips Momentum ‘Designed for XBox’, but I missed the Microsoft blog on this initative. Although the site mentions HDR, 4K at 120Hz and VRR with HDMI2.1, it doesn’t say much else about the requirements. However, it does list monitors from Acer and Asus as well as Philips. … Read more
Display industry is continuing its journey in the path of innovation for next generation products. Quantum Dots have become a technology platform from LCDs to OLEDs and MicroLED displays to printable electroluminescent displays. NanoLED is the new name for QDEL (electroluminescent) display. According to Nanosys’s presentation at DisplayWeek 2021 Business Conference, QDOLED display is expected … Read more
What They Say Lenovo has a new wireless charging mat accessory for its notebooks. The device, using ‘Power by Contact’ technology from Energy Square uses a 3.2mm thick mat that is left on the desk combined with a long thin antenna that connects to the notebook via USB Type-C and is mounted to the bottom … Read more
What They Say Stanford University reports that its researchers have developed a technique for making ‘atomically thin’ flexible transistors that are less than 100 nanometres in length. Using CVD, the researchers put a layer of molybdenum disulfide on a slab of silicon coated with glass and overlaid it with nano-patterned gold electrodes. The resulting film … Read more
What They Say Protocol interviewed Qualcomm’s GM of XR Hugo Swart who set out these four ‘roads to mass-market’ adoption: VR headsets with video pass-through: Facebook’s Quest already offers a rudimentary version of this, allowing users to see a grainy version of the real world in VR. That image quality is going to get better, … Read more
What They Say We listened in to a webinar by Varjo last week and the company announced that it has acquired a BIM software company, Dimension10 and wants to use technology from the firm to develop a collaboration environment that it is calling Reality X Cloud. Initially it will be supported only on Varjo devices … Read more
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