DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 4.7.2017

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Samsung to produce ridiculously huge double-wide display panels "[The panels] will be 49-inches wide, with a 3840x1080 resolution. It's basically the equivalent of a pair of 27-inch 1080p... "via PC Gamer

Samsung Galaxy S8 display: What's the deal with the new aspect ratio? "Thankfully smartphones are still sort of rectangular. Rectangles have an easy-to-calculate surface area. And if you do that... "via Phone Arena

Review: Alienware 13 Gaming Laptop "display. It's not only one of the brightest displays I've ever encountered in a laptop, it's also one of the darkest, with ultra-high-contrast blacks that would be black... "via WIRED

TV Tech Showdown: Samsung QLED Vs LG OLED "It's that time of year when all the major television makers show off their latest technologies in the war for Aussie lounge rooms. In one corner, Samsung continues to back the LED-backlit LCD camp (let's just call it LED). In the other corner, LG's... "via Lifehacker Australia

Not all China smartphone vendors to use AMOLED panels, say sources "panels for their smartphones in 2017 following the adoption of such panels by Apple for its next-generation iPhone and Samsung Electronics for its Galaxy ...... "via Digitimes

Misfit Vapor Smartwatch With AMOLED Display to Run Android Wear 2.0 "It is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor. The smartwatch comes with 4GB of storage, built-in GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and promises up to two days of battery life, which is a ...... "via NDTV

[We Are Moving] Toward Foldable Touchscreens "Even as it's actively being bent and deformed into arbitrary shapes, [foldable touchscreens] would open up a range of application possibilities—from flexible, foldable interactive tablet displays to highly sensitive... "via Optics & Photonics News (subscription) (blog)

Flexible sensor holds potential for foldable touch screens "Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your pocket, or an artificial skin that can sense your body's movements and vital signs.... "via Printed Electronics World

VA Display vs. IPS Display in 4K HDR TVs: What You Need to Know "All LCD TVs sold by the major US and overseas brands that you're going to find from any retailer right now come built either with VA... "via 4k

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