Update: some reviewers are actually very upbeat on the display. ABC says "it's got a better screen than anything out there right now", and Gizmodo thinks "This is probably the best screen we've seen on a smartphone so far",better than the Droid and iPhone screens.

Engadget has posted the first review of Google's upcoming Nexus One phone. It has a 3.7" WVGA touch AMOLED, and Engadget are actually not too pleased with it: 

"At first we thought Google had tweaked some of the Market settings because the highlight orange was so bright, but comparing images on the web across different displays, the Nexus One consistently looked brighter then it should have. Oh, and using this thing in daylight? Forget about it... The Nexus One is a nightmare to see with any kind of bright light around, and snapping photos with it on a sunny day was like taking shots with your eyes closed.".

Samsung has announced the new IceTouch MP3 player that sports a 2" full-color Transparent OLED. This is an exciting announcement, we didn't know Samsung was so close to making this technology commercially available. The player will be released in the first half of 2010. Samsung say that the AMOLED screen casing is constructed using a dual-injection molding process and tempered glass and results in a smooth, durable and scratch-proof surface.

Samsung IceTouch

Beside the cool transparent display, the IceTouch comes with 8/16GB of memory, has a strong CPU and Samsung's TouchWiz Sweep interface. It has 5.1-channel sound enhancement technology and it continually analyzes and adjusts audio levels to reflect the producer’s intended sound.

LG's 15" EL9500 OLED TV is on sale now in Korea (for around $2,500). Here's a short clip showing it on display in one of Seoul department stores:

Interestingly, they just sell it as "LG OLED TV", without a model name or number.

A couple of weeks ago we reported that the Samsung Moment is very popular, being the fourth best selling smartphone over at Amazon.com. It seems that the phone is gaining momentum, and it is now the top selling smart phone! 

The Moment has a 3.2" touch OLED, full QWERTY slider, 3.2mp camera, microSDHC slot, Wi-Fi and GPS. It runs Google's Android OS (on a 800Mhz processor).  It is now selling for $79.99 (with a service plan) for the Spring network.

It seems that Sony are very serious about printed flexible OLEDs. In June 2009, they have created a group whose goal is to launch the flexible OLED panel business "as soon as possible". They had several researchers working on organic TFT in several departments in Sony, and now they all work in the same group.

Sony Flexible OLED Prototype (CES 2009)

Sony wants to 'change the fundamental design of equipment" using the new flexible displays. They have already shown us flexible-OLED prototypes (photo above, and video below). Hopefully we'll hear more at CES 2010 next week.