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TCL 27C3A Pro mini LED monitor glowing bright white full screen on a sunlit desk beside its rear view

Mini LED holds 1,400 nits full screen where OLED dims

Mini LED full screen brightness holds 1,400 nits on TCL's 27C3A Pro while OLED drops to 152 nits, because a backlight runs no auto brightness limiter.

A 27-inch OLED monitor on a designer's desk showing crisp text, with a magnified red-green-blue sub-pixel grid in the corner

220 PPI puts LG's 5K Tandem WOLED into retina territory

LG's 27-inch 5K Tandem WOLED hits 220 PPI by dropping the white sub-pixel, trading peak brightness from 335 nits down to 250 nits at 100% APL.

A flagship smartphone crossing a glowing starting line ahead of a queue of other phones, a bright chip on its back.

The Xiaomi 18 gets Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 before Honor

Xiaomi 18 is tipped to ship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 first, while Honor's Magic 9 splits chips inside one series and leaves the base model on Gen 5.

Smartphone chip with two processor cores glowing white-hot and radiating heat while the rest of the die stays cool

At 5.00GHz the Dimensity 9600 Pro trades heat for speed

Dimensity 9600 Pro hits 4,300 in Geekbench 6 single-core with two cores at 5.00GHz, but the clock drops under sustained load on test samples.

Two ultrawide QD-OLED monitors on a desk, left screen washed grey-purple in daylight, right screen staying inky black

QuantumBlack film clears the purple tint from QD-OLED

QuantumBlack film clears QD-OLED's purple tint in lit rooms. BlackShield, DarkArmor and ObsidianShield are the same optional Samsung Display upgrade.

LG 52G930B curved 52-inch ultrawide monitor on a dark desk showing a red sci-fi shooter, keyboard and mouse set back

At 52 inches the 52G930B turns 5K2K into a wall screen

LG 52G930B stretches 5120x2160 across 52 inches at about 107 PPI. Here is the viewing distance maths and the desk depth where it stops working.