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What They Say Nokia has licensed its brand to be used for Android-based smart TVs (32″ 1080P and 43″and 75″ UltraHD) to be sold in the DACH countries (Germany. Austria and Switzerland). They have four HDMI inputs and game response time of 9.5ms. Previously, the brand was only used on TVs in India, but these … Read more
What They Say Warranty Week has had a deep dive into Apple’s warranty and extended warranty business and found that the company has been doing better and better over recent years. IT’s warranty accruals have fallen to a new low level, although product volumes were not so sharply down. The publication (admitting “everything below is … Read more
What They Say LG has stared to ship the BU50NST a 5000 ANSI Lumen LP UltraHD single 0.47″ chip DLP projector that was originally announced in June. It has a zoom (1.6X) lens and can support images from 40″ (1m) to 300″ (7.6m) diagonal with a throw distance of 1.32:1 to 2.11:1. . It has … Read more
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 84.8 million smartphones were shipped in China in the third quarter of 2020, down 14.3% year-on-year (YoY). This was the result of multiple factors: soft demand; Huawei’s supply constraints; and delayed flagship launches from both Huawei and Apple. “The escalated US trade restrictions in August ultimately … Read more
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) tablet market surged in 3Q20 (+22.9% YoY) and reached 13.5 million units, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The EMEA tablet market experienced another strong quarter across all regions, as shipments to address education tenders jumped to unprecedented volumes, reaching 1.7 million units in the region. Despite a … Read more
What They Say Xiaomi has launched the Mi Box 4S Pro, an 8K Android-based streaming STB in China that is selling for just $60 (Yuan 399). It’s got an upgraded 16GB of storage, HDMI 2.1 support, and Bluetooth voice controls. It uses the MIUI interface. The 4K Mi Box 4S is available for $50 at … Read more
What They Say Roku reported revenues up 73% year on year to $452 million in Q3 2020 with gross profit up 81% to $215 million. Operating profit was up to $12 million against a loss last year of $26.5 million. Active accounts were up from 32.2 million to 46 million and streaming hours up from … Read more
What They Say Sharp saw sales up 1.9% to $10.78 billion for the first half of its fiscal 2020, but saw profits decline 17.8% as sales of office printers dropped. The company expects to get back on track in the second half of the year. What We Think I remember, many years ago, working with … Read more
A team of researchers led by Professors Myung-Hoon Song and Sang-Gyu Kwak of the Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology (Ulsan, Korea) in conjunction with Han-Young Woo of the Department of Chemistry at Korea University (Seoul, Korea) and others, recently announced the development of a perovskite-based LED (PeLED) technology that can enable improvements related to … Read more
What They Say We reported a couple of days ago on the Innolux demonstrations of miniLED and microLED at an event in Taiwan (OPTO Taiwan 2020 Live Coverage – Innolux and PlayNitride Unveil New Micro LED Displays. Now Digitimes has identified HC Semitek of China as the supplier of the miniLEDs for the 55″ display. … Read more
What They Say The Elec in Korea reports that both Samsung and LG are planning TVs with miniLED backllights to get closer to the contrast performance of OLEDs. The paper said that Samsung’s supply chain from Seoul Viosys and PlayNitride from Taiwan and that the firm would be more aggressive in developing miniLED than LG. … Read more
What They Say Taiwanese panel makers saw a drop in volumes of both large and small panels in October. Hannstar gave positive guidance on its expectations for the year. What We Think The volumes of large panels are basically following typical seasonal patterns. (BR)
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