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Samsung Dominating Foldable Smartphone Market, Big Changes Coming in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC put out its new forecast report that foldable panel shipments will hit 3.1 million units, with revenue rising 394% to $462 million, but below earlier expectations because Huawei could not …

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

Oppo Shows Unusual Flexible Smartphone Concept

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo has shown a concept phone based on a folding design, the Oppo X Nendo, a collaboration with the design company Nendo of Japan. There are three hinges and the device …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Smartphones

Links for the Week

by Bob Raikes

Here are some links for the week that might be interesting, but do not need much of a comment Global semiconductor sales grow in October, says SIA Smartphone OLED prices to drop from oversupply: …

Tags:Apple| Cameras| Distributors| iPhone| LED| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| Mergers & Acquisitions| OLEDs| Pricing| Semiconductor Market| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Touch| Transparent Displays

Other Links, week ending 4th December 2020

by Milos Pavlovic

Here are some links from this week that you might find interesting or useful but didn’t need any comment. ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ will be the first movie in 4K HDR & Atmos on HBO …

Tags:Apple| Cinema| Colour Grading| Dolby Atmos| Events| HDR - High Dynamic Range| OTT Video| Samsung| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| UltraHD & 4K| Vodafone

Samsung’s free TV service is coming to more Galaxy phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung developed its TV Plus service to provide content to the brand’s smartTV systems. Now it has been rolled out to Galaxy Z Fold2, Z Flip, and original Galaxy Fold. The …

Tags:OTT Video| Samsung| Smartphones| Streaming Video

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iPhone 12 teardown showcases South Korean parts makers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei, in cooperation with Tokyo-based research specialist Fomalhaut Techno Solutions, stripped down an iPhone 12 and found that 26.8% of the value of the smartphone was accounted for by components from …

Tags:iPhone| Smartphones| Teardowns

iPhone 12 Pro Max OLED Display Technology Shoot-Out

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ray Soneira has published his in-depth review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max display and found it to be at the leading edge of OLED (and other) smartphones. As usual, he …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Measurement| OLEDs| Smartphones

Oppo Will Have a Full CMS Next Year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo said in its technical event this week that its Find X3 series would support the DCI P3 colour gamut with 10 bit colour and that it would have a managed …

Tags:China| Colour Management & Processing| Smartphones

Oppo Updates OLED AR glasses prototypes

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As well as a prototype rollable smartphone, (Oppo’s X 2021 rollable concept phone expands in your hand), Oppo showed an update to prototype glasses shown last year. The Oppo AR Glass …

Tags:Augmented Reality| OLEDs| Smartphones

Oppo’s X 2021 rollable concept phone expands in your hand

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo has shown the Engadget blog a rollable smartphone that can change from a landscape 6.7″ size to a squarer ‘tablet-like’ 7.4″ diagonal, with the software automatically compensating. It’s still ‘a …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Smartphones