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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 …

Tags:Smartphones| Testing

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

Samsung To Boost Foldable, but LG still Hesitating on Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Samsung wants to boost the sales level of its folding smartphones to around the level of its Note series of smartphones at over 10 million handsets per year. …

Tags:Foldable Devices| LG Electronics (LGE)| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung| Smartphones

Android Authority Like the Huawei Mate X2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Android Authority reviewed the new Huawei Mate X2 foldable smartphone and was very impressed. It likes the fact that when folded, the phone has a traditional 21:9 aspect ratio with a …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Huawei| Smartphones

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Samsung Phones Boast 800 nits & HFR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung has launched three new A-series phones, the Galaxy A52, A52 5G, and A72 with European pricing at €349, €429 and €449 respectively. Displays are 6.5″ for the A52 models and …

Tags:Samsung| Smartphones

OnePlus 9 Leaks Display Details

by Bob Raikes

What They Say It’s due for a launch tomorrow (23rd March), but many of the details of the OnePlus 9 Pro have already been leaked. The display will be based on LTPO with 2560 …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| LTPO TFT| Smartphones

Telekom launches the first XR glasses on the German market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis reported that Telekom of Germany has started to sell the Nreal Light XR glasses. The glasses weigh 106 gms (3.75oz) and uses 1080P displays. There are ‘gotchas’, however. For now, …

Tags:5G| Augmented Reality| Germany| Mixed Reality| Smartphones

Qualcomm struggles to meet chip demand for Samsung

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reports that Qualcomm is ‘struggling to keep up with demand’. Samsung is said to be short of enough APUs for its mid-range and low end smartphones. Qualcomm is said to …

Tags:Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Smartphones