LG Display is one of the leaders in OLEDs, but they have recently sent some mixed messages - great OLED TV prototypes, promises of new OLED TV products soon, no AMOLED phones plans... Mr Won Kim, Vice President of OLED Sales and Marketing from LG Display has agreed to answer a few questions we had, and set things straight.

Mr Won Kim has a BA in business management from Korea University, and has been working for LG since 1984. Now he's VP of OLED sales and marketing (since 2005).

Q: What kind of OLED products are LG currently selling? What is your current capacity for OLED production?
Mobile phone only. Current capacity is 7k sheets(365 x 460) per month, which is equivalent to 200k pcs of 3" size.

Samsung is showing a new S-shaped flexible OLED display prototype. The display is 2" QVGA (240x320), supports 260K colors, has 200cd/m2 luminance and 10,000:1 contrast ratio. It's only 0.05mm thick...

Bayer MaterialScience AG, a unit of Bayer AG, signed a technology and patent license agreement with Add-Vision. Bayer will be able to manufacture and sell flexible Polymer based printable OLEDs. 

Bayer says that the technology is an important component for many applications in the coming years - such as active packaging and labels, gift cards, electronic toys and games, promotional products or point-of-sale signage.

Financial details have not been disclosed.

It was leaked last week, and now Samsung has officially announced the Omnia 2 (i-8000). It's got a 3.7" touch AMOLED (800x480), 8.1Mp
camera capable of 30fps video. It's a HSDPA phone with custom UI.

Samsung Omnia II

The 800x480 AMOLED panels were announced by Samsung just last week.

Samsung has officially announced the new Omnia Pro phone lineup, including the Louvre B7610. It's got a 800x480 3.5" touch AMOLED. The QWERTY slider has also got a HSDPA 7.2Mbps, A-GPS, 5Mp camera, FM Radio, Wi-Fi, microSDHC slot and an Accelerometer. It will run Windows Mobile 6.1 pro.

Samsung Louvre B7610

It turns out that Samsung (SMD) have started to develop OLED lighting modules. They have already shown a prototype at SID.

SMD showed two 200mmx200mm panels, and seven smaller panels (150mmx50mm). This is interesting, as Samsung are the leaders in AMOLED displays, and they will face a tough battle in OLED lighting from companies such as OSRAM, GE, Philips and others...

The Louvre B7610 QWERTY slider has been rumored since about January this year, but now we hear more info, including an alleged 3.5" 800x480 (WVGA) touch AMOLED display. 
 

Samsung Louvre B7610 
 

LG is giving some interesting updates on its mobile phone plans. They want to focus on 'customized' and UI-focused phones. They also said they have no plans to release an AMOLED phone, as these are 'too expensive'. The do want to open an 'LG App Store' in July to share content for mobile applications.

Nokia are now shipping the N86, globally, for around 525$ in europe (375EUR). TheN86 has a 2.6" AM OLED QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) with up to 16 million colors. It also has a 8Mp camera, 8Gb of storage, TV-out and other goodies.

Nokia N86

The N86 is expected to cost 375 EUR (US$525) after taxes and subsidies.