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Links Week Commencing 23rd August 2021

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 first part of this week. Computer Space and beyond: 50 years of …

Tags:Acer| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Free Form Displays| Game Playing| Samsung| Smartphones| Smartwatches| TVs (TV Sets)| USB Monitors

Samsung Video Focuses on Fold Phone Durability

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung put out another of its videos that allow their engineers to get in front of camera, but don’t add much to human understanding. There is some reference to the use …

Tags:Smartphones

Samsung Adds Little to Our Understanding of the Z Fold 3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung put out a video that allows its engineers to talk about some of the decisions behind the Galaxy X Fold3 including the UDC and the support of the S Pen. …

Tags:Pen Input| Samsung| Smartphones

CSOT Joins Samsung OLED Supply Chain

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported yesterday on a story from China that said that BOE is supplying OLEDs to Samsung Electronics and now Gizmo China reports that CSOT (TCL) will supply OLEDs to the …

Tags:CSOT| Samsung| Samsung Display| Smartphones

CSOT supplies Samsung with OLED for Galaxy M legacy models

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec has reported that CSOT has supplied OLED panels for an older OLED-based smartphone from Samsung that it is supplying in India. The paper reports that the display was developed …

Tags:CSOT| OLEDs| Samsung| Smartphones

Xiaomi Mi Mix 4 Tries to Steal Samsung’s Thunder

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi tried to steal some thunder from Samsung by announcing its Mi Mix 4 just before the Samsung Unpacked event. The Mi Mix 4 is a rigid smartphone with a 6.67″ …

Tags:China| Smartphones| Under-Display Cameras| Xiaomi

Samsung Unpacks New Watches & Phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung opened its Unpacked event with its new smartwatches, talking up improved health, body composition and sleep tracking and highlighting the benefits of its collaboration with Google on software. (Android and …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Pen Input| Samsung| Smartphones| Under-Display Cameras

Samsung’s Latest Foldables Show Benefits of Refinements

by Bob O'Donnell

If you look back at the history of many important tech product introductions, an interesting pattern tends to emerge. Even products that—at their debut—seemed to be remarkable breakthroughs, often didn’t really make their true …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphones

Huawei P50 Pro Display review: New score leader

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DXOMark already liked the cameras in the Huawei P50 Pro smartphone and now it has tested the display which is a 6.6″ 2700 x 1228 pixels and refresh up to 120Hz …

Tags:Huawei| OLEDs| Smartphones| Testing

Google Tensor Could be an Exynos

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SamMobile reports that the ‘Tensor’ SoC that is reported to be in the next Google Pixel smartphone (Google Uses a New Processor) is in fact a version of a Samsung Exynos …

Tags:Application Processors| CPUs| Google| GPUs| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphones