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What They Say Samsung may move away from using curved edges to its displays in the Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone, due early next year. There is a possibility according to the report that a curved one will be used, but that would delay shipment. What We Think It seems way too late, to me, to … Read more
A recent press release caused a raised eyebrow here…but perhaps it shouldn’t have. On November 19, Venture capital firm Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) “…announced its purchase of certain iconic RadioShack brands and related assets.” According to the press release, REV was founded in 2019 “as a means for giving life to businesses that have struggled … Read more
intoPIX, the leading provider of innovative image processing and video compression technologies, introduces for the first time TICO-XS, TICO-RAW and FlinQ IP-cores for FPGA/ASIC and software SDKs for CPU/GPU at KES 2020 in South Korea. At the KES show, intoPIX will demonstrate the new JPEG XS standard and image sensor compression (also an upcoming JPEG … Read more
What They Say Healthtechinsider reported that a hacker has developed a pair of glasses that can signal directions for wayfinding using coloured LEDs in glasses frames. He designed the frames and has released the 3D CAD files. What We Think Well, it’s only around a three pixel display, but this shows an interesting idea. It’s … Read more
What They Say Strategy Analytics (SA) said that users are switching to display-based smart speakers, or Smart Displays. An increase from 22% to 26% in share was part of the reason for an increase in smart speaker sales year on year of 3% overall. Smart Display sales were 9.5 million in Q3. Amazon and Baidu … Read more
What They Say Samsung developed its TV Plus service to provide content to the brand’s smartTV systems. Now it has been rolled out to Galaxy Z Fold2, Z Flip, and original Galaxy Fold. The service is also arriving on the Galaxy A series, S9, and Note9. That means just about every recent flagship and mid-range … Read more
What They Say Leading monitor supplier, Dell, published strong results for Q3 of its fiscal 2021 with revenues up 3% to $23.5 billion overall and with ‘client solutions’ of $12.3 billion, up 8%. Client solutions generated $1 billion of operating revenue out of a total of $1.1 billion. Consumer revenue was $3.5 billion, up 14%, … Read more
What They Say Japanese equipment maker, Screen Finetech said that it has a new a new coater/developer, the SK-F1500H, specially designed for the film forming process of color filters with anti-reflective properties. The firm said that current flexible displays suffer from wrinkles caused by multi-layer films, especially multi-layered circular polarizers, and that the anti-reflective film … Read more
SCREEN Finetech Solutions Co., Ltd. (SCREEN FT) has developed the SK-F1500H, a new coater/developer specially designed for the film forming process of color filters with anti-reflective properties. These color filters are intended for use in flexible organic EL displays (OLEDs) with structures that are rollable or foldable. SCREEN FT expects the SK-F1500H to make a … Read more
What They Say Sony has said that the PS5 will support Variable Refresh Rates (VRR) as set out in HDMI 2.1 in the future with a firmware upgrade. At launch, it supports 4K120 performance, although there have been some practical issues in implementation. What We Think As we pointed out in the article yesterday, the … Read more
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) tablet market is projected to increase 3.6% YoY in 4Q20, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The full year 2020 is anticipated to grow at 10.1% YoY in EMEA, the highest YoY performance for the tablet market in EMEA since 2013. Education will continue to generate important volumes … Read more
The EMEA smartphone market threw off the coronavirus blues in the third quarter, bouncing back to register some growth over the same period in 2019, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Total smartphone volumes were 93.1 million, up 2.1% on 3Q19, for a value of $27.7 billion. This contrasted with … Read more
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