Today a set of new Apple products were tipped for release in the next few months with mini-LED technology inside. Information comes largely from Apple-centric analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who suggests that production of this new set of six devices is not expected to be delayed by COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) over the next couple of years. These products are going to be bright!
Today we're looking at a couple of mini-LED leaks for the newest iPad set for 2020. This new iPad - or collection of iPads - will reportedly work with a new sort of LCD panel. While in the past, you'd safely assume that an OLED panel was "better" than an LCD panel, the new mini-LED tech allows LCD panels to shine far, far brighter than competing OLED panel setups.
Today the latest version of their digital compact WR series camera line with the WG-70. This is the camera line that Ricoh makes to command the rugged handheld digital camera market, doing so with claims that rival the vast majority of other hobby cameras. The ruggedness of this camera seems almost more important than the media which it's meant to capture - it's tough!
It may not be long before we see Mini-LED displays make their way to Apple products. While we may not see the tech featured on iPhones anytime soon, one analyst thinks that Apple will look to outfit iPads and MacBooks with Mini-LED displays as early as next year. When that happens, it could be the start of a trend for Apple, which could begin using Mini-LED in as many as 4-6 products over the next two or three years.
Documents pointing toward Apple's use of LED lights on an iPhone suggest that Apple may take a page out of gaming company Razer's playbook for smartphones. True, technically the iPhone had a glowing Apple logo well before Razer Phone 2, but imagine Razer's surprise when they awake one morning in the near future to find one of the biggest, most successful companies in the world using that same smartphone feature? And for real, this time, not just in a DIY mod sort of sense.
The LARQ Bottle has a light in it that kills bio-contaminants. With this bottle - and this UV-C LED light - you'll be able to eliminate up to "99.9999% of bio-contaminants" before you take a tip of your favorite basic requirement for human life. According to the folks that make it, The LARQ Bottle is "the world's first self-cleaning water bottle and water purification system."
The same folks who created a majorly successful smart mattress in 2014 just revealed the Casper Glow. The Casper Glow is a smart lamp that works with the user's smartphone. This device utilizes the sleep knowhow cultivated by Casper with "millions of data points and years of expertise in sleep research and science toward addressing a top environmental factor - light - that often gets in the way of a good night's rest."
We're now privy to a so-called Google Pixel 3 Lite thanks to a series of photos shared this week by a leakster in Russia. If this device is, indeed, what it's reported to be, it's more than a little bit welcome in my pocket. This is because not ONLY does it have a rectangular display, and a back-facing camera that almost certainly has Pixel 3 powers, it also has a standard headphone jack on top.
Apple's manufacturing partners are gearing up for MicroLED production if news from Taiwan proves to be entirely accurate. According to sources close to the deal, Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology approved a PlayNitride application for a brand new $17-million USD (NT$500 million) manufacturing plant at Hsinchu Science Park. This is one of a couple companies rumored to be in talks with Apple for future MicroLED display panel production on devices of several sorts.
If Apple had its way, it will have all its hardware designed and developed, but not manufactured, in-house. It has already done that with its own “A” processors and “M” co-processors, and it might soon be doing similarly with its display panels. Insider sources reveal that the company is secretly working on its own “MicroLED” display technology that it will use for future Apple Watches and, eventually, iPhones, freeing Apple from reliance on display makers, like its eternal frenemy Samsung.
Huawei P20, P20 Lite, and P20 Pro leaked this afternoon in a variety of colors. We've seen a bit of the Huawei P20 Lite before now, thanks to the FCC, but we've not seen anything major for the P20 or P20 Pro up until now. Today that changes in a large way. Today we're looking at all the models, in all the colors - or at least what's likely the first several main colors, anyway.
While many of us are probably used to the idea of projectors being stationary devices, Sony has introduced one that you can carry around in your pocket. Today Sony announced its MP-CD1 Mobile Projector, which is small enough to take where ever you may go. As you'd expect, this projector might not be as powerful as ceiling-mounted ones for your home theater, but it still sounds like a surprisingly capable device.