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China’s Smartphone Market Dropped 14.3% in Q3 2020 Under Soft Demand and Delayed Product Availability, IDC Reports

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

EMEA Tablet Momentum Continues in 3Q as Education Demand Surges, Says IDC

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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

Xiaomi Mi Box 4S Pro is an 8K Android TV box that costs just $60 in China

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

Roku Well Up in Q3

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

Researchers Address Blue Emission Issues in Perovskite-Based LEDs

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

HC SemiTek Ships miniLEDs to Innolux, LG

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

JOLED Tests Digital Signage Using OLED

JOLED Inc., an OLED expert and manufacturer of 4K OLED by printing technology, started testing digital signage using its OLED displays in cooperation with JR East Retail Net Co., Ltd. at the NewDays stores of JR Ichigaya Station and other stations starting from Sunday, November 1, 2020. Through this initiative, JOLED will demonstrate the usefulness … Read more

You Can’t Describe Colour Volume in 2D. Or Can You?

Colour has been much on my mind recently, after the recent articles on WCG and content that I published. In those articles, I talked a lot about colour gamuts and showed a 2D diagram of some gamuts shown in a standard CIE format. However, colour doesn’t really work in 2D. Or does it? The most … Read more