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Links Week Ending 2nd July 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 second part of this week. Loewe: New 4K OLED TVs with Loewe …

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (Snapdragon) Display review: Near-twin of Exynos version

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DXO tested the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (Snapdragon) display which it found was ‘almost entirely’ identical scores to the Exynos-based version. The site liked the performance, with good readability in …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Samsung| Smartphones

Links Week Commencing 21st June 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. Nvidia Shield gets Google’s new Android TV …

Strategy Analytics: Samsung and Vivo are World’s Fastest Growing 5G Smartphone Vendors in Q1 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although Apple is dominating the 5G smartphone market, with 29.7% share in Q1 2021, Strategy Analytics said that Samsung and Vivo saw the biggest growth from Q4 at 79% and 62% …

Tags:5G| Forecasts| Market Data| Smartphones

Global smartphone shipments reach 650 million units in 1H21, says Digitimes Research

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research reports that 650 million smartphones will be sold in the first half of 2021, with Samsung Electronics, Apple, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo the top five brands and all up …

Tags:5G| Forecasts| Market Data| Smartphones

Samsung Display to begin foldable OLED panel production for Google in October

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Samsung Display is to start supplying foldable OLED panels to Google, Vivo and Xiaomi in October according to TheElec. Google will use a 7.6″ display, while Vivo’s is expected to have …

LTPO is a Hot Technology – but What Is It?

by Bob Raikes

For some time, I have been looking for a good explanation of the LTPO technology that is increasingly being used in display backplanes. I’m grateful to Ross Young for looking at this as part …

Huawei Brings HarmonyOS to is Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Huawei has rolled out its HarmonyOS V2.0 on its smartphones after it was barred by the US government from using Google’s software and a range of semiconductors. AP reports that about …

Tags:Huawei| Operating Systems| Smartphones

HTC Publishes Repair Manuals on iFixit

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The WSJ reported that HTC Corp has started started publishing repair manuals for its consoles and selling some replacement parts through the community repair site iFixit. “If you can design to …

Tags:HTC| Notebooks| Right to Repair| Smartphones

Lenovo Making Hay – even in Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lenovo had a great year in 20/21 and reported fourth quarter financial year revenue up 48% to $15.6 billion with net income of $260 million, up 512%. For the year, the …

Tags:Financial Data| Lenovo| Smartphones

The Pixel 6 Pro Renders Leaked

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Leaked alleged renders of the Google Pixel 6 Pro suggest that the device will have a 6.67″ OLED display, which GSMArena reports as having 1080×2400 resolution and 120Hz refresh, although that …

Tags:Google| OLEDs| Smartphones

Global smartphone shipments to decline in 2Q21, says Digitimes Research

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes said that it expects Q2 to see smartphone shipments decline because of chip shortages. Overall the firm saw 47% year on year growth in Q1. Samsung was up 15.9% to …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| SID Display Week 2021| Smartphones