UPDATE: We have picked our lucky winner, and we're waiting for the shipping details. Congratulations to our winner, and for all the others - better luck next time!

The Unitedkeys OLED keyboard is one of the best keyboards around (I'm using one myself...) - with 9 customizable OLED keys. Unitedkeys has agreed to send one of these cool gadgets to the winner of our new contest.

The OLED keyboard normally costs 179$. The keyboards (or "command centers" as Unitedkeys likes to call them) can be really helpful - you can setup the keys to change within each application, and to perform tasks such as macros, application launch, or even jump to a different set of keys.

How to enroll:

We offer 3 easy ways to get a chance of winning. Want to get a better chance? You can enroll in more than one way to improve your chance!

• Follow us on twitter. Just follow us, and send the following message "Entering into the OLED-Info Unitedkeys OLED keyboard contest. To participate, follow @oledinfo and retweet this message".
• Write a blog post about the contest: If you have a blog, write a post about our contest, and help us spread the word. Make sure you include a link to this post, and also a link to https://www.oled-info.com, and a little info on the OLED keyboard itself. After you post, send us a message and tell us about it.
• Become a fan of OLED-Info in facebook: Simply "fan" our page, all present fans will have a chance of winning, too...

The contest is open to anyone, anywhere on the planet. Only one entry per method per user (no cheating please) - The winner will be randomly picked using randomizer.org, and will be notified via email to get shipping details. If we don't get a response back within 5 days, we'll pick a new winner.

The last day to enter is August 31, and we'll pick the winner at 12:00 GMT+2.

Good luck!

Israel's Cellcom network now offer two AMOLED touch-screen phones from Samsung: The Ultra Touch and the i7500 Galaxy Android phone.

10 lucky Israelis can get the Android for free - the ones that offer the most original thing they are willing to give to Cellcom in exchange for this phone... 

Samsung Mobile Displays say they shipped over 2 million AMOLED panels during July 2009, setting a new record. Samsung is seeing increased demand for mobile phones that use AMOLED displays, such as the new S8000 Jet, that has got over 2 million pre-orders.

LG Display are working on their new AMOLED (LTPS) fab. As we reported earlier, LG Display invested 79M$ on this new 3.5g plant (730x460mm glass substrates). It is scheduled to begin mass production in 1H 2010, and will reach a monthly capacity of 8,000 input sheets by the end of 2010. 

LG Display are hoping to sign a deal to supply OLED panels to Nokia. They are also working on larger panels with plans to release 15" OLED TVs in Korea by the end of 2009, and later on introducing 32" OLED TVs in 2012.

Universal Display Corporation today announced its financial results. For 2Q 2009, the company lost 6.4M$ and had 2.9M$ in revenue.

UDC's expenses were higher, but so was the revenue - but the growth was in development contacts and not in commercial shipments and royalties (which were actually lower than 2Q 2008).

Gizmodo reports that the new Zune HD will cost 220$ for the 16Gb version, and 299$ for 32Gb. That's cheaper than Sony's OLED walkman (399$ for the 32GB version, and 299$ for the 16GB version). The release date is September 8th.

This information comes from best buy's inventory system, it's not official yet. The Zune HD does appear in Amazon.com, but there's no release or price information yet.

A few weeks ago it was reported that Nokia are using two OLED panel suppliers - Samsung and TPO. Now we hear that TPO has some technical issues, and are not yet supplying panels to Nokia.

TPO plans to launch their first product later this year - a 3" (or a bit larger) WVGA panel for mobile phones. This panel is already in development. In 1H 2010 TPO will release a 3" VGA panel aimed for digital cameras, and in 2H 2010 a 4" WVGA panel for mobile phones.

Project TOPLESS is working towards OLED lighting, and have recently made a few Polymer-OLED desk lamp prototypes. The OLED lamps have five 2" PLED panels, each requiring 0.7W (the total power input is 3.5Watts - 5V dc @ 0.7amps).

You can see in the video that the power switch is located in the lower left hand corner of the Z-arm, and it is activated when moving from the horizontal position. Towards the end of the video you can see a comparison of color rendering under fluorescent and OLED lighting conditions.

TOPLESS (Thin Organic Polymeric Light Emitting Semi-conductor Surfaces) objectives include an efficacy of 20Lm/w, color temperature suitable for general white light applications and large single-pixel devices. TOPLESS will run till February 2010. They are working currently on improving the lamp's quality. If all goes well, the project hopes to start a pre-production OLED lighting line in the UK, making several thousands panels by the end of 2011.

Scientists from the independent Stanford Research Institute (SRI) have design a new efficient OLEDs using cavities - in fact the new OLEDs are five times as efficient as standard OLED (i.e. five times as much light per watt consumed). The green COLEDs (Cavity-OLEDs) achieved 80 lumens per watt, and the blue ones 30lumens per watt. 

They used Polymer-OLEDs provided by SDK, and the team says that they are ready to make white light (by mixing red, green and blue OLEDs), and estimate that products based on this new tech could arrive as soon as next year.

Sprint says the will start offering a Samsung AMOLED phone in 4Q 2009. It will be a high-end phone, but we do not know yet which model. Currently the only AMOLED phone available in the US is the Samsung Impression (AT&T).