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 iPhone leak Indicates ‘Hole & Pill’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An apparent leak from China shows how Apple’s iPhone 14 displays may line up with the Pro models using ‘hole and pill’ configurations for the camera and sensors rather than a …

Tags:Apple| iPhone

Samsung Unhappy About Apple Order Drops?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting the Korean IT Home as source, Patently Apple reported that Samsung Display’s CEO, Joo-Sun Choi has met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and asked him not to reduce the firm’s …

Tags:Apple| OLEDs| Samsung Display| Supply Chain

Global Smartphone Market Declined by 7% YoY in Q1 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There was a rush of releases with Q1 market data from firms including IDC and Counterpoint. Counterpoint said that he global smartphone market declined by 7% YoY and 12% QoQ to …

Tags:Apple| Market Data| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Xiaomi

Apple has officially launched its Self Service Repair program

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple put out a press release saying that its Self Service Repair system is now available in the US and will expand into Europe and then beyond later this year. There’s …

Tags:Apple| Repair| Right to Repair| Smartphones| USA

Chinese Whispers:BOE to Supply iPhone OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Cinno Research in China reported that BOE has done a deal to supply OLEDs for the iPhone 14 and supply could reach 59 million units (around 25% or so of the …

Tags:Apple| BOE| iPhone| OLEDs| Smartphones| Supply Chain

Links Mid-Week Commencing 18th April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the middle of this week (there seems to be a lot with …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Broadcast| CPUs| Digital Signage| Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| GPUs| Investment| Operating Systems| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Testing| UK (United Kingdom)

Apple, Google and Samsung May Have Big Smartwatch Plans for 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say C|Net had a round-up of speculation about changes in smartwatches in 2022. The blog said that there could be an Apple Watch for extreme sports and the first smartwatch from Google …

Tags:Apple| Fitbit| Google| Samsung| Smartwatches

Apple Studio Display Firmware Glitch

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MacWorld reports that Apple ran into a glitch recently with its Studio Display, which runs a version of iOS 15.4. The article said that the 15.4.1 update did not support the …

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