LG's 15" OLED TV is now on sale in South Korea, for 3 Million Won (around 2,580$). There's not a lot of information yet (like the model name, where it can be found, etc.).

LGE 15-inch OLED TV

The 15" OLED TV will have a 1366x768 resolution, 100,000:1 contrast ratio and it'll be only 1.7mm thick.

It appears that Kyocera has decided to stop its OLED program, and they dissolved their OLED subsidiary. Kyocera were working together with UDC towards OLEDs for mobile phones, including flexible OLEDs.

Kyocera EOS flexible phone concepts

Several Korean firms (including Samsung and LG) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to join hands in developing equipment to manufacture large-size AMOLED displays (i.e. OLED TV panels) . Korea wants to get a top-position in OLED displays and lighting, and the firms committed to further investments in these fields.

Under the MOU, the companies (Samsung Mobile Displays, LG Display and other companies) will co-develop and mass-produce vapor deposition equipment for AMOLED panel production. Korea wants to not only use Korean-made equipment in their own OLED plants, but also to become an exporter or such equipment (currently most of this equipment comes from Japan).

Casio Computer wand Toppan Printing will form a new joint-venture to develop and produce OLED displays. The new JV, which will begin in February next year, will combine Casio's display production technology with Toppan Printing fabrication technology.

Casio will set up the firm with around 600 employees (from Casio's OLED development team and LCD production unit), and will later sell a 80% stake in the firm to Toppan Printing.

Lumiotec is showing new OLED lighting panels. Lumiotec has equipment for developing 300x300 mm OLED panels (although the ones on show are 142x142mm). The panels are 3.5mm thick with a 3800k-4000k color temperature.

Lumiotec plans to begin mass-production in January 2010, which is great news. The company is in contact with the big 3 lighting companies - OSRAM, Philis and GE (all of them has independent OLED Lighting programs).

The MOTO Development Group's 5" Android 2.0 internet device (MID) is now available for developers. It is powered by a TI OMA3430 CPU and has a 5" OLED capacitive touchscreen. There's also a version with a similar LCD. The device includes a 8Mp camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and an optional 3G module. The group is also developing 3.5" and 10" devices (should be available in 2010).

No price is given yet for the 5" MID.

4D Systems have recently released a new and improved range of custom graphics processors and display modules:

• The GOLDELOX-GFX2 (enhanced GOLDELOX-GFX): an embedded 4DGL graphics controller. The chip is designed to interface with many popular OLED and LCD display panels.
• New PMOLED modules: The modules are compact and cost effective, with an embedded GOLDELOX-GFX2 graphics processor that delivers ‘stand-alone’ functionality to any project. Powerful graphics, text, image, animation and countless more features are built inside the GOLDELOX-GFX2 chip.
• The GOLDELOX-SGC(8-bit) and the PICASO-SGC(16-bit): intelligent Serial Graphics Controllers designed to interface with many popular color OLED and LCD display panels.
• Smart Serial Display Modules: from a tiny 0.96" OLED module all the way up to 3.2" TFT to suit most small to medium size graphics user interface applications.

More information can be found over at 4DS' web site

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Korea has displayed 13 pieces of OLED lighting - some hese were the winners in an OLED lighting design contest, and some were designed by InnoDesign (from Korea):

The lighting panels were co-developed by ETRI and Samsung Mobile Displays (SMD). The have 20,000 lifetime and are as bright as fluorescent lamps (and consume less than half the power). There were different sized panels shown, including 180x180mm and 150x150mm.

LG Chem is the latest company to start working on OLED Lighting. LG Chem is showing 4 sizes of OLED Lighting panels, in the form of a Mondrian photo:

• 50x70 mm
• 150x20 mm
• 150x30 mm
• 150x150 mm

LG Chem's panels use green and red PHOLED materials made by Universal Display, and SFC's deep-blue fluorescent OLED (UDC and SFC are working together since 2008). The basic structure is Anode-Blue-Intermediate Layer (using LG 101 materials) Green&Red Cathode, and the panels provide various color temperature (this was achieved by changing the thickness of materials and the laminar structure).

 

The OLEDs on display were cold, full white OLEDs, with 20-25lm/W efficiency and a color temperature of 5000-6800K.

LG Chem's plan is to mass produce OLED Lighting products in 2H 2010 and is developing equipment together with Sunic System. LG Chem currently uses 200x200 deposition equipment and pre-process equipment.

The Samsung Omnia II (with its 3.7" touch AMOLED, 800x480) is the official sponsor of the 2010 winter Olympics. Bell will be the exclusive Canadian carrier for the phone. The Omnia II is a HSDPA/HSUPA phone, with 5mp camera, video
recording at 30fps, internal memory of 2GB to 16GB, microSD slot, WiFi,
A-GPS and TouchWiz UI 2.0.

Samsung Omnia II

The phone is available on Amazon unlocked for 562$.