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What They Say Android Authority reviewed the new Huawei Mate X2 foldable smartphone and was very impressed. It likes the fact that when folded, the phone has a traditional 21:9 aspect ratio with a 6.45″ 90Hz OLED with 2700 x 1160 resolution. The main 8.01″ 2480 x 2200 pixels (413ppi) and the display is ‘flat. … Read more
What They Say The Elec reported data from Omdia that showed that Samsung Display’s OLED shipments fell 9% in January from December to 45 million units because of low sales of the iPhone Mini. Samsung is reported to be sole supplier of OLEDs for the Mini. The overall OLED market hit 53 million units, also … Read more
What They Say Samsung put out a very graphic-heavy post that showed the use of its S65UA wide screen monitor and how it can be used in a home PC set-uo What We Think Nothing very revolutionary here, but this is a nice presentation of a good product. Buyers would be very confident of what … Read more
What They Say Samsung released a number of new office monitors in three series, the S8, S7 and S6 with sizes from 24″ to 34″ and resolutions of 3440 x 1440 (WQuadHD), 2560 x 1440 (QuadHD) or UltraHD. Details are in the table. The feature that we noted as less usual is the inclusion in … Read more
There are real incentives to develop LED materials and device configurations that emit circularly polarized light. Using conventional approaches, close to half of the unpolarized light produced by an LED can be blocked by the circularly polarizing anti-glare filter that is typically attached to the uppermost surface of a LED-based display. Development of an LED … Read more
What They Say A market research agency, Magirror Research, sent us a report that claims that TCL Huaxing, based on success for the Motorola Razr folding smartphone, would make more shipments than those of BOE in the foldable segment. The global market for foldable phones will be 8 million units in 2021, the firm believes, … Read more
I’m still catching up with all the news from a lot of virtual events over the last few weeks, but here’s my second article from the Electronic Displays Conference in Nuremburg. I’m covering a talk by Xiaoxi He of IDTechEx, an industry analyst and her subject was the ‘Technical and Commercial Trends for MicroDisplays and … Read more
Persistent demand led the global PC monitor market to impressive heights during the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20). The market grew 16.9% year over year with shipments surpassing 39.2 million units, a number last exceeded during the fourth quarter of 2011. For the full year 2020, shipments grew 8.3% compared to 2019, according to the … Read more
What They Say IDC put out a press release highlighting the strong sales of desktop monitors in 2020, which saw 16.9% growth from 2019, the highest it has ever recorded (since 2008). 2020 Was the Strongest Growth Year on Record for PC Monitors, According to IDC. The release has the detailed tables of brand shares … Read more
What They Say Invidis spotted a new release, the M1 TV the second product from high end Austrian LED TV maker, C Seed (C Seed Makes Largest 4K TV). The company has made a 165″ display that folds up and disappears below floor level. It weighs 1.3 tonnes, so the floor had better be strong! … Read more
What They Say Asustek posted its result for 2020 and saw profits up 119% year on year to $938 million, with revenues for the year at $13.54 billion with gross margin at 17.18%. Q4 was down 4.93% on 2019, but was up 27.35% year on year. Profit was $346 million in Q4, up 273% on … Read more
What They Say Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is regarded as a good source for reasonably reliable rumours on Apple’s plans and we saw two separate reports on his comments. First, he has said that he expects Apple to use an OLED in the 2022 iPad Air (while the MacBook Air will start using miniLED LCDs). Separately, … Read more
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