As usual, Samsung phones seems to be leaked ahead of launch. The new GT-I8000, or Omnia 2 will have a 3.7" WVGA (800x480) AMOLED, 8.1Mp camera capable of 30fps video. It's a HSDPA phone with custom UI.
The 800x480 AMOLED panels were announced by Samsung just last week.
The Nokia N97 will be released soon in the US. You can pre-order the unlocked phone for 604$, and it will ship on June 30th.
The long-awaited N97 is a QWERTY slider, quad-band HSDPA/3G/GSM phone. It includes Wi-Fi, GPS, stereo bluetooth, 5Mp camera, 32GB of internal memory and a microSD slot.
The display is a touchscreen LCD, sadly not an OLED!
Apple has announced the new iPhone 3G S (for speed). It's an upgrade to the 3G iPhone, and it does not include an OLED. It seems we still need to wait for an OLED display from Apple.
The 'S' does include HSPA 3G, faster processor, better camera (3Mp), digital compass,video recordings and other tidbits.
LG is showing their 15" OLED TVs. To show how tough they are, they are hitting them with hammers...
The OLED is only 0.85mm thick, with 1366x768 resolution at 105ppi. The contast is 100,000:1, and the refresh rate is 120Hz. The OLED is built on a glass substrate with a steel-sheet on the back-side and a resin sealing layer on the front - this makes it durable to shock, as they demonstrate with the hammer...
It seems that Sony Ericsson are planning to update their Xperia phone, with the X2 'vulcan'... Some photos and details have leaked :
This is not confirmed yet... but if true it will be the 2nd larger OLED in a phone (the largest is the 3.7" used by Samsung's i8910).
The Fraunhofer IPMS Institute is working towards autostereoscopic 3D displays that use OLEDs as patterened backlight. They are showing a 3.5" 3D QVGA display, that uses a 80x60mm OLED backlight.
The OLEDs are using Novaled's PIN-OLED tech, and are capable of either monochrome-green of full color.
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Scientists from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako have developed a way to eliminate precise doping limits from the OLED manufacturing process. By using a metal dopant containing molecular groups that block the self-quenching interactions, the scientists have, for the first time, fabricated high-efficiency OLEDs with a wide range of doping concentrations.
Hou and colleagues modified a phosphorescent iridium metal complex with a class of molecules known as amidinates. These molecules bind to iridium through a nitrogen atom that localizes electrons near the center of the metal complex. Bulky carbon groups on the edges of the complex are inert and prevent the materials from attaching and self-quenching their phosphorescence.
UDC and LG has been showing a wrist-worn flexible OLED prototype for a long time now. They have released some new information on the display today.
The display is 4", supporting 320x240 pixels at 100ppi. The luminance is 100cd/m2, contrast 1,000:1. The whole panel is 0.3mm thick, with a steel plate as substrate, using amorphous Si TFT. It weights 8g.
The Fraunhofer IMPS's new bi-directional OLED microdisplay packs an OLED display and a camera in the same chip. This can be used for a lot of applications - from automotive ('gaze' monitoring for safety) to medicine, security, see-through HMDs, and just fun gadgets... The Fraunhofer showed us a demo interactive-eyeglasses just a couple of days ago. Now we got some more info on that chip...
The OLED is an Active-Matrix one, with 320x240 resolution, 8bit color level. The Peak luminance is less than 11,000cd/m2, and the efficiency is 5.3cd/A@500cd/m2.
The camera matrix is build from photodiodes, placed just between the OLED pixels.
