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The State of Play in MicroLED and an Apple Watch Forecast

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Semiconductor Engineering published quite a long article on the state of play of microLED developments and has some useful information, especially if you are new to the field. In it, Eric …

Apple Headset Ideas from Gurman

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg’s Apple expert, Mark Gurman described ‘at least’ three Apple XR headset developments. N301 – probably to be called the Apple Reality PRo and a high-end rival to Meta Platforms Inc.’s …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| iPhone| Smartphones| Virtual Reality

Apple’s iPhones overtook Android devices

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The FT reported data from Counterpoint Research who said that the active installed base of iPhones topped the 50% mark in the quarter that ended in June. It’s iPhone’s highest market …

Tags:Android| Apple| Operating Systems| Smartphones

SDC Dominating iPhone 14 Series Launch with >80% Share

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC has increased the detail of its tracking service for flexible OLEDs and in announcing that said that panel shipments for the upcoming iPhone 14, expected to be launched on September …

The IT OLED Hot Topic Self Selects Today

by Bob Raikes

I was just looking down my list of topics for Display Daily when I spotted a news item that immediately voted for itself as the hot topic today. The Yonhap News in Korea reported …

Apple Increases Self-Repair Programme

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple is adding the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops with M1 chips to its Self Service Repair programme in the US. The repairs covered include fixes to the trackpad, Touch …

Tags:Apple| Right to Repair| warranty

Sigmaintell Looks at Folding Smartphones

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Sigmaintell Research of China said that it expects the global shipments of ‘small’ folding smartphones to be 9 million with YoY growth of around 138% and with higher growth than larger …

Apple Expects Steady Demand for New iPhones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although there are negative signs in the smartphone market, Bloomberg reported that Apple has asked suppliers to maintain volumes of its new iPhones in line with last years launch – which …

Samsung Display to apply different grades of materials on iPhone 14 OLED panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung Display will use different OLED material stacks on different models of the Apple iPhone 14 series. The 6.1″ and 6.7″ standard models will use the M11 …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Materials| Samsung Display| Supply Chain

iOS 16 beta Shows new Sleep Mode for Always On Images

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Mac reports that the iPhone 14 Pro’s ‘always on’ screen will show background images, but with reduced brightness and contrast, in sleep mode. That is in contrast to Android, where the …

Tags:Android| Apple| iPhone

Apple & Honor Flourish in Difficult Chinese Smartphone Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There has been a flurry of news and releases in the last few days as the big research companies send out their Q2 data. A particularly interesting topic is the smartphone …

Tags:Apple| China| Foldable Devices| Smartphone Market

Links Week Ending 29th July 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. Meta bumps prices of Quest 2 headsets ahead …