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Samsung Working with Anoto on Pen Input

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Anoto Group AB has done a deal with Samsung to develop a pen design for Samsung to produce. The firm will receive a fee for the development and a licence fee …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Pen Input| R&D (Research & Development)| Samsung

Forget foldables — Samsung’s first scrollable phone could launch this year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting ‘leaker’ sources and an unidentified ‘third form factor’ (on top of the B4 for the ZFold4 and Q4 for the ZFlip4, there’s an N4), Toms Hardware has speculated that Samsung …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung

Global Premium Smartphone Market Sales Reach Highest Ever in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research reported its data for the premium smartphone market in 2021 and said that it was up 24% to reach 27% of the overall market. (Counterpoint regards the market for …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Smartphone Market

Links Mid-Week W/C 21st March 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. (I have been catching up so there …

Omdia: Foldable Smartphone Market Experiences 309% Year-over-year Growth in 2021

by Artem Alekseenko

Cumulative shipments of foldable smartphones distributed worldwide by the end of 2021 recorded 11.5 million units for the first time since the first foldable smartphone was launched in 2019 according to Omdia‘s 4Q21 smartphone …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Foldable Devices| Smartphone Market

Android 12L will come to Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft devices

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge reports that Samsung, Lenovo, and Microsoft are the first device manufacturers to commit to shipping Android 12L, the new version of Android designed to be better optimized for tablets …

Foldable Phones Predicted to Exceed 100 Million Units by 2026

by Artem Alekseenko

According to UBI Research’s “1Q22 Small OLED Display Market Track” Small OLED Display (10-inches or smaller watch, smartphone, foldable phone, etc.) shipment in 2021 was 746 million, a 34.4% increase from the previous year’s …

Tags:Foldable Devices| OLEDs| Small & Medium Displays

Samsung Dominated Q4’21 Foldable Smartphones with a 96% Share, DSCC Expects 86M Foldable/Rollable Panels in 2026 Across 4 Applications

by Artem Alekseenko

DSCC’s Quarterly Foldable/Rollable Display Shipment and Technology Report revealed that Q4’21 foldable smartphone shipments rose 65% Q/Q and 520% Y/Y to a record high 4.25M units. Samsung led with a 96% share on shipments …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Foldable Devices| Rollable Devices| Samsung

BOE demonstrates a new foldable OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GizChina reported that BOE has shown a prototype flexible OLED (f-OLED) that can be in- and out-folded to make an N shape. It has a maximum diagonal of 12.3″ when open, …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices

Links Week Ending 25th February 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 second part of this week. (Apologies – this should have been …

DSCC Sees Continued Strong Growth for Foldables

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC updated on its latest Foldable/Rollable Report and highlighted that panel shipments more than tripled to 10 million in 2021, up 207%. Smartphone shipments were 6% better than forecast at 7.98 …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Notebooks| Smartphone Market

Worldwide Market for Foldable Phones Forecast to Reach 27.6 million Units with a Market Value of $29 Billion in 2025, According to IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

International Data Corporation (IDC) witnessed worldwide shipments of foldable phones, inclusive of both flip and fold form factors, reach a total of 7.1 million units in 2021. This represents an increase of 264.3% over …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Foldable Devices| IDC