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Xiaomi Flash Sale Shows ‘Lust for Foldables’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi said that it had its first ‘flash sale’ of the Mi Mix Fold smartphone in China and sold $61 million worth of devices in one minute to sell out completely. …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Smartphones

Huawei To Release 3 New Foldable Smartphones in 2H21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Huawei, which launched the foldable Mate X2 a couple of months ago, is planning three new foldable devices in the second half of last year. Digitimes Research believes …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Market Data| Smartphones

Counterpoint Reports on US Smartphone Features

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research has released a free downloadable report on features popular in the US smartphone market. The report highlights the growth in the largest class of devices. Apple and Samsung are …

Tags:Market Data| Smartphones| USA

TCL Shows Fold AND Roll Concept

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TCL has shown a new smartphone concept that combines foldability and rollability. The condensed version has a 6.87″ that unfolds (it’s outfolding) to 8.85″ – already quite large. However one side …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Smartphones| TCL

Apple Headset May Have 15 Cameras

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Phone Arena reported that Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple will use an under-display Face ID sensor in 2023, which will eliminate the ‘notch’ in Apple’s display. He has also …

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

Sony Updates Xperia Phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony announced three new smartphones highlighting the firm’s technology in cameras and imaging. In the Xperia 1 III there are four focal lengths available from three cameras, and the ‘periscope’ camera …

Tags:Smartphones| sony

LTPO

DSCC Highlights LTPO and High Refresh in Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an information dense blog post, DSCC picked out some highlights from its most recent report on ‘Advanced Smartphones’. It highlights the trend to higher refresh rates, which have developed from …

Tags:Apple| LTPO TFT| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

Links Week Ending 9th April 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. Uber Looking at adding AR to App …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| Financial Data| Lenovo| Litigation| Nokia| Patents| Pay TV| Pricing| Samsung| Smartphones| sony| TVs (TV Sets)

Supply chains

Panels or Sets?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the course of a recent correspondence with Ross Young of DSCC, he mentioned that sometimes we have referred to forecasts for foldable devices that are higher or different from those …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Market Data| Smartphones

LG Board of Directors Guillotines Moribund Smart Phone Business

by Ken Werner

In 1789 Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a member of the French National Assembly, spearheaded the passing of a law that required all death sentences to be carried out by “means of a machine,” so decapitations …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Smartphones

Xiaomi Adds an Extra Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Somehow the latest release of a new smartphone series from Xiaimi crept up on us! We reported on Ray Soneira’s test (DisplayMate Tests More Xiaomi Smartphones) and we then spotted that …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Smartphones