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BOE aims to overtake Samsung in OLED in 5 years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that BOE wants to get 40% share of the flexible OLED market by 2024, based on comments at a display event in China. The firm believes it will …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Smartphones

Google Updates Android 11 for low-latency codecs, variable refresh, new media controls & ‘Display Cutout’ support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google has released Android 11. There are a lot of changes, detailed in the linked article. For displays, changes include quicker connections to TVs, support for ‘hole-punch’ and ‘waterfall’ displays. There …

Tags:Android| Smartphones

Watch a demo of Royole’s new folding phone, on sale today for roughly $1,500

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Royole announced its second generation Flexpai 2 in China at 9,988 yuan ($1,470). It is out folding, like the first one and has a 7.8″ 1920 x 1440 display and is …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Smartphones

At this point, 5G is a bad joke

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Experienced tech journalist, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, posted that really, 4G may be faster than 5G at the moment and it will take years for millimetre wave 5G to be widely available. …

Tags:5G| Smartphones

Barriers to VideoConferencing, One Down….

by Bob Raikes

Although I’m a committed technology geek and I have adopted or taken an interest in many of the new technologies over the years. However, one I really didn’t find compelling although intellectually I could …

Tags:Cameras| Desktop Monitors| Notebooks| Smartphones| VideoConferencing

Samsung Display Unveils Foldable OLED Panel with World’s Smallest Curvature

by Artem Alekseenko

Samsung Display announced that it is the first in the industry to successfully commercialize a foldable display panel having a 1.4R rating* for its curvature, representing the smallest degree of curving among commercialized foldable …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Samsung Display| Smartphones

Huawei Plans to Put Its Harmony OS on 200 Million Devices by 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Huawei has to reduce its use of US technologies in line with US government restrictions, so will move away from Google’s Android to its own Harmony OS 2.0. What We Think …

Tags:Android| Huawei| Operating Systems| Smartphones

Samsung Display applies for US licence for Huawei exports

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Display has applied to the US Department of Commerce to allow the supply of OLEDs to Huawei. The report states that LG Display is not pursuing this line. What We …

Tags:Display Drivers| Huawei| Samsung Display| Smartphones

LG’s new T-shaped dual screen smartphone to be unveiled on September 14

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Electronics has a new smartphone that uses dual screens and will be marketed as part of ‘Explorer Project’ as the ‘Wing’. In part of teaser video, there was a brief …

Tags:Android| LG Electronics (LGE)| Smartphones

Introducing the Galaxy Z Fold2: Change the Shape of the Future

by Artem Alekseenko

Samsung Electronics unveiled the next generation of its category-defining foldable device, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2. Packed with enhanced refinements and meaningful innovations, the Galaxy Z Fold2 delivers new foldable experiences for those who …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphones

ZTE Unveils World’s First Under-Display Camera Smartphone Axon 20 5G

by Artem Alekseenko

ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, has unveiled ZTE Axon 20 5G, the world’s first under-display camera smartphone, delivering the industry’s first true …

Tags:5G| Cameras| Smartphones| ZTE

Materials Remain Important for Under-Display Cameras

by Bob Raikes

I miss the talks that David Barnes used to give at the SID Business Conference, before he retired. He once described the LCD business as, from an economist’s point of view, looking like a …

Tags:Cameras| OLEDs| Smartphones| Under-Display Cameras