Update: the video has been removed, sorry.
Janice Mahon from UDC is talking with Butterscotch's Andy Walker. She's giving a very nice introduction to OLEDs, and we can also see some nice examples such as Samsung's transparent laptop and 3D OLED TV and Novaled's OLED Lighting prototypes.
Intel is showing a new home-automation system concept, that is based on their Atom processor, and has a large (11") touch AMOLED display. The whole system is designed to be efficient, hence the Atom processor and OLED display. Intel's site is not consistent about the display size, in one place they say it's 11.25", and in another 11.56". In any case we're not sure who's making the actual OLED but it's probably based on a Sony panel as used in the XEL-1 OLED TV.
In any case, the concept is very nice, and looks great. It uses Zigbee wireless connection to connect to appliances around the home and provide "intelligent home energy management". Each appliance needs to be connected to a low-cost Zigbee transmitted socket in order for this to work. The OLED-based display provides a central control panel with information such as temperature, utility cost, personal messages, home security, a clock, weather, internet access, etc.
A company (we don't know the name of which) is doing some custom art-work using OLED displays. Some of this stuff is beautiful - Chinese inspired paintings in a boat-looking thing, a Chinese fan, and OLED flowers. These works are very pricey - up to $100K. The flowers however are just $100 each.
iSupply estimates that Samsung's 3.7" WVGA AMOLED touchscreen used in Google's Nexus One phone costs $23.5. The whole bill-of-materials of the phone is $174.15. The most expensive part Qualcomm's processor ($30.5).
Google Nexus One
Dell has a new Android device called the Mini 5. It's a (big!) mobile phone with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5Mp camera and a full-multitouch 5" display. Gizmodo thinks it uses an OLED display, but nobody knows for sure. Remember that Dell are also showing a laptop prototype with an OLED, so obviously they are considering OLEDs in their future products.
NanoMarkets have released a new report on OLED materials (Markets for OLED Materials: 2010-2017). They forecast that there will be an explosion in demand for OLED materials - which will grow from around $420 million in 2010 to $2.9 billion in 2015.
Key points from the report:
ASUS is showing off its new Waveface family of concept devices. Two of these use flexible OLEDs. The Ultra is a wearable (on the wrist) mobile phone that is controlled with hand gestures or by touching the display.
ASUS Waveface UltraThe Waveface Light has physical keyboard that pops up when folded up into the laptop form factor.
There are reports that Samsung will soon unveil two new AMOLED phones (both with a WVGA 3.7" screen). The first is the Galaxy 2, which was actually reported a few weeks ago (it was said than that it'll have a 4.1" display). The second is the Bada-running S8200.
Update: the video was removed from the internet...
Here's a nice short video of Samsung's upcoming IceTouch media player, with its transparent touchscreen full-color 2" AMOLED display.
Dell is showing a nice new OLED laptop prototype - a Studio XPS 16 with a 2mm thick OLED display. Dell says that comparing to the LCD display, the OLED is faster and uses less power. It also has a higher contrast ratio of 10,000:1.
Dell says that this is just concept, they didn't mention how close their are to actually releasing an OLED laptop. Dell's CEO has hinted at OLED laptops back in 2008. It's likely that Samsung produced the OLED display prototype for Dell.
