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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 …

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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

LG To Close Mobile Phone Business Worldwide

by Artem Alekseenko

LG Electronics Inc. (LG) announced that it is closing its mobile business unit. The decision was approved by its board of directors earlier. LG’s strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Phones| Smartphones

DisplayMate Tests More Xiaomi Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Displaymate’s Ray Soneira has published the results of tests of the Xiaomi M11 Ultra and Pro versions, after covering the M11 base unit back a couple of months ago. The two …

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Links for w/c 5th 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 first part of this week. Oppo smartphone adds 60x microscope camera HDR: …

Tags:Cameras| Codecs| GPUs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Panasonic| Patents| Recruitment & Appointments| Smartphones| TCL| Xiaomi

Sigmaintell forecast by display type

BOE In the Door for FOLED at Samsung

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Korean ETNews blog reported that BOE is expected to start supplying flexible OLEDs for Samsung Electronics Galaxy M smartphones in the second half of the year. Production will start in …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Samsung| Smartphones

Where We’re At in Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

I was recently able to attend an online webinar organised by Sigmaintell, a market research company in China and SID China. There were two sessions, one on large area displays and one on mobile …

Tags:Semiconductor Market| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| SOCs