The last time I was not in Las Vegas for CES, the iPhone did not yet exist. A virtual show means that this year the Engadget team is experiencing things more like our readers. The advantage is that it is easier to have a broad view of everything that is going on, and I didn’t have to figure out how to put a PS5 in my luggage. The downside is that I am not watching any new legal TV personally.
It is the smallest of sacrifices, but being able to jump on the live video and chat / discuss with the team about our favorite choices is helping to fill in the gaps. Our live broadcast will continue today from 9:00 am Eastern time with the GM press conference – tune in and chat as we all go through what is (hopefully) a unique remote event.
– Richard Lawler
The company offered a quick look during its CES press conference.
LG has not entered the foldable phone trend, but has long worked on a foldable screen smartphone. Although no one has seen it in person yet, LG has offered a glimpse of the device, with its screen that starts the size of a phone and extends to a small tablet. Unfortunately, other details were scarce, but we confirm that it will be called LG Rollable when it really arrives. The company is not alone in the search for mobile phones, however, both TCL and Oppo are working on similar concepts. 2021 could be the year of the rollover.
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The UltraFine OLED Pro looks amazing, but we don’t know much about it yet.
How does the best keep improving? For LG, they are improving the state-of-the-art OLED image quality with a new “evo” panel technology that promises better lighting. While we love OLEDs for their deep blacks like ink and incredible contrast, they can have problems with bright scenes and that should fix that – if you’re willing to pay a little more. In the meantime, your C1 series is now available in sizes up to 83 inches, assuming you have adequate space and budget, and will have Google Stadia streaming integrated.
But that is not where OLED development ends. In addition to the 77-inch 8K Z1 series of OLED TVs, LG also introduced the UltraFine OLED Pro, a 31.5-inch computer monitor that brings those individually backlit pixels to your desktop. We don’t have a price for either yet, and probably for good reason.
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Filmed by his new drone camera.
Sony’s CES lecture touched on new TVs – unveiled last week – speakers, a professional-grade film-making drone and updates on its flashy announcement last year: the Vision-S car. As promised, Sony started testing the EV in Europe in December, and even shared a clip of the car on snow-covered Austrian roads. The company has not offered any other major updates to the concept car, but it looks like Sony intends to take the project further.
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Its current line of the 4K 6 series will also be maintained this year.
Following late on a promise from last year’s CES event, all new entries in its mid-range 6 series line will have 8K resolution four times sharper than 4K. While it is unlikely that you will have a lot of native 8K content to watch on the sets, they are prepared to increase the low resolution content.
As Samsung and LG added mini LEDs to their TVs, TCL is launching its third generation of mini LED backlights, dubbed OD Zero. The name is Zero because the distance between its backlight layer and the LCD panel has been reduced to 0 mm, which should make the screen even thinner. Oh, and is launching a 85-inch 4K TV in the coming months, which will start at $ 1,599.
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