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55 inch and 65 inch OLED TV prices proximity to premium LCD TV

January 18, 2019

Recently, Sony’s 65 inch OLED TV, XBR65A1E, is price at US$ 300 more than Samsung’s QN65Q7 on the Best Buy basis. Prices of LED TV and LCD TV are becoming increasingly competitiveness in the premium TV market.

CES2019, the biggest issue of TV is LG Electronics OLED TV R

January 10, 2019

The CES, held in early January of each year, is the most important event to understand all of the consumer electronics trends of the year. This year, TV makers from all over the world exhibited a variety of products to attract spectators to the event.

The meaning of 'Flexpai', the world's first foldable mobile phone

November 28, 2018

Having a Gen5.5 7.5K line in Shenzhen, Royole is known as a head mount display (HMD) company rather than a display company. After completing installation of equipment in the second quarter of this year, Royole has been developing panels for the target of 7.8-inch tablet PC. RoYole has two peculiarities in OLED field. One is the world's first mass-production of foldable OLEDs and the other is the first use of oxide TFTs in mobile displays.

Apple adopts LTPO TFT to extend battery life time to Apple Watch Series 4

November 27, 2018

Apple released its Apple Watch Series 4 with enhanced healthcare features on a larger screen than before, in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in California, USA on September 12.

Samsung Display, supplies 7-inch OLED for Virtual Exterior Mirror to Audi

October 5, 2018

Samsung Display announced on October 3 that the company will be supplying a 7-inch OLED display for Audi’s all-new electric Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), the Audi e-tron®. The Audi e-tron has attracted attention throughout the automotive industry. One of its highlights are optional* ‘virtual exterior mirrors’ – a ‘first’ for a volume-production car.

8K OLED TV, Can we see it in the second half of the year?

July 16, 2018

Sharp has already started selling 8K LCD TVs for the first time in the world since last year. Samsung Electronics showcased 8K TV at CES earlier this year, and will launch 8 K QLED (QD-LCD) products in the second half of the year. In the OLED camp, LG Display exhibited 88inch 8K OLED TV at CES,

Vivo released OLED smart phone with more than 90% display area.

June 18, 2018

Vivo, a Chinese Smartphone maker, announced on June 12 that it will launch a new full-screen OLED Smartphone 'NEX' as its flagship line.

Xiaomi re-adopts OLED in two years.

June 5, 2018

After two years of the launch of Redmi Pro and Mi Note2 in 2016, Xiaomi adopted OLED again. On May 31, Xiaomi unveiled its flagship smartphones such as Mi8, Mi8 Explorer Edition, Mi8 SE, and its smart watch Mi band3, to mark the eighth anniversary of its founding.

Samsung Electronics, is increasing full screen rigid OLED adoption.

May 21, 2018

Samsung Electronics is expected to launch next-generation smartphones with full-screen rigid OLEDs, next to the popular Galaxy A8 (2018) series. Accordingly, attention is focused whether the sluggish rigid OLED market will revive.

LG OLED TV was selected as the best TV for 3 consecutive years.

May 18, 2018

At the best 2018 TV released recently by Consumer Reports, US consumer magazine, LG Electronics' 65-inch OLED TV 'OLED65C8PUA' was selected as the best product among all the products.

OLED smartphones of the notch design type, will become trends in 2018?

April 3, 2018

Since Apple first unveiled its OLED smartphone in the notch design type on iPhone X, lots of smartphone makers are to release OLED smartphones in succession. Attention is focused whether notch-type OLED smartphones will be become trends in the smartphone market in 2018.

OLED TV continuing to evolve

March 16, 2018

At the '4th 2018 OLED Korea Conference' hosted by UBI research on March 7-8, Dr. Han Chang-Wook, Chief Research Fellow of LG Display, made a presentation for the development process of OLED TVs and emphasized the image quality of OLED, design flexibility and expandability.

Samsung Electronics, releases Galaxy S9 at MWC 2018

February 22, 2018

Samsung Electronics will unveil Galaxy S9, its next-generation strategic smartphone, at MWC 2018, held in Barcelona, Spain on February 25. Galaxy S9 is anticipated to be equipped with various features such as dual cameras for the first time at the Galaxy S series and intelligent scanning, so expectations for the Galaxy S9 are rising.

CES 2018: Expected to Showcase Low to Mid-End Smartphones

January 4, 2018

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are going to unveil low to mid-end smartphones at CES 2018 instead of their mainstream smartphones.

OLED applied Galaxy Book 12.0 released in Japan

December 28, 2017

Samsung Electronics launched its Windows tablet 'Galaxy Book 12.0' in Japan. It has a 12-inch OLED display with an aspect ratio of 3: 2 and a resolution of 2,160 × 1,440. The size is 291.3 × 199.8 × 7.4 mm (WLH), the weight is 754 g, and the official price is 139,800 yen.

LG V30 + launched in Japan and India

December 26, 2017

According to ITmeadia of Japan, NTT docomo said that LG Electronics' smartphone 'V30 + L-01K' and 'JOJO L-02K' started to be sold in advance as from 12:00 on December 20th at DoCoMo store and web site. The full-fledged release of V30 + L-01K will be at the end of January 2018, and that of JOJO L-02K is scheduled in March 2018.

The number of OLED TV products in 2017 has doubled compared to last year

December 8, 2017

OLED TV models launched in 2017 have been highly increased rather than both 2015 and 2016. 16 types of OLED TVs were launched in 2016, while 30 kinds of OLED TVs were launched which covers that the number of products has nearly doubled from last year. By company, LG Electronics released total 10 types of products which are the greater number of products launched than competitors, and followed by Loewe and Panasonic with 5 types of products.

AOI equipment market for OLED mobile devices is expected to reach US $ 23.3 billion by 2021

December 5, 2017

AOI equipment used for small and medium-sized OLED inspection is non-contact inspection equipment that analyzes the presence of defects by irradiating the product with light and measuring the difference in the amount of the reflected light. The AOI equipment detects not only pattern defects by recognizing the difference through comparison of repeated patterns but also foreign objects on mask and substrate before and after LLO process.

Price competition intensifies in the premium TV market- OLED TV price close to premium LCD TV

November 15, 2017

In the premium TV market, price competition is on the rise. The basic premium TV models (55 inch, 65inch, flat type) such as QN55Q7F and QN65Q7F (Samsung Elec.), OLED55C7, OLED65C7 (LG Elec.), XBR55A1E and XBR65A1E (Sony), launched in Amazon (www.amazon.com) in March 2017, are compared to one another).

OLED TV with different characteristics and advantages by set makers

October 20, 2017

LG Electronics announced on last 11th that LG OLED TV is speeding up the popularization with the monthly sales volume of 10,000 units and above for the first time in Korea.