Dell's new phone lineup has leaked, and there are two OLED phones in there. They both have the same 4.1" WVGA touch OLED. Both are said to be released in Q4 2010 for 3G networks, with an LTE version coming towards the end of 2011.

Dell Lightning

The first phone is the Lightning which is a Windows 7 portrait slider, running on a 1Ghz processor. It sports a 5mp camera, GPS, GPS, accelerometer, compass, FM radio and full flash support.

E²M Technology are now offering low-cost OLED evaluation kits. Their solutions can help make OLEDs more accessible for businesses and educators who want to evaluation the technology. E²M Technology's products range are OLED Science Kits, Encapsulation fluids, OLED electronic drivers, ultraviolet curers and ultraviolet curable fluids for OLEDs.

The OLED science kit are designed to enable users to evaluate OLEDs. Users can experiment with the physical structure of OLEDs and electronic control parameters. You can make a working OLED device in two hours and it does not require an ultra-clean environment. The cost is £290.00.

Philips has opened the Lumiblade Creative Lab - where professionals from a wide
range of creative backgrounds can experience and experiment with Lumiblades OLED lighting panels. It's a workshop based in Aachen, Germany that can give advice, guidance and practical support for OLED Lighting projects.

Philips ceiling OLED lamp photo

They are currently showing ten designs (some of them new, some older) utilizing Lumiblade panels.

Samsung's Super AMOLED S8500 Wave phone is now available for UK's T-Mobile network. You can get it unlocked for £366.99. With a plan the handset ranges from £59.99 to free, depending on the monthly payments.

Samsung Wave s8500

The Wave has a 3.3" 800x480 Super AMOLED display and runs Samsung's Bada OS. That's a world first on both. It also sports Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, 1Ghz processor, 5Mp camera, a-GPS, 720p recording/encoding and DivX/XviD support.

Lenovo has launched the LePhone in China, hoping to sell "millions" of this phone in the next five years, and "tens of millions" after that. The WCDMA LePhone has a 3.7" 800x4800 touch AMOLED. It uses Google's Android 2.1 OS. It also has Wi-Fi and GPS.

Lenovo Lephone

Update: Samsung's current fab is actually a Gen 4 one, and not a Gen 3.5 like we reported earlier. The LTPS portion is a full Gen 4 (730x920). The VTE portion is actually ½ Gen 4, 730x460, but the equipment capacity is balanced to the Gen 4. Thanks Barry!

Samsung has apparently committed the investment needed for a new Gen 5.5 (1300X1500mm) OLED plant. They will start installing equipment in 3Q 2010, and the plant will go online in full capacity in January 2011. According to the article, they still plan to make small OLEDs for mobile devices in the new plant, but we wonder whether this one will be used for larger panels, like those required by Apple's upcoming 2nd-Gen iPad?

Samsung are currently fulfilling 80% of the OLED orders they have, and they are using a Gen 4 plant (they recently increased the capacity of that plant).

InnoPhysics has performed successful feasibility studies at the Holst Centre, and now is ready to go to market with its proprietary Digital-on-Demand PlasmaPrint hardware solution. They say that their technology enables software patterned surface functionalization, etching and deposition of functional coatings on thin (plastic) substrates.

Plasma-printed OLED lighting test structures

The proprietary InnoPhysics technology solution operates on a large variety of plastic substrates in ambient conditions, at room temperature and it provides flexibility in patterning, i.e. mask-less. As part of the go-to-market strategy, InnoPhysics is developing a PlasmaPrint toolkit integratable with existing table-top R&D print platforms.

Apple OLED rumors never die. Digitimes reports that Apple has started developing the 2nd-generation iPad, and they'll use an OLED panel. They want to launch it in 2011. Digitimes are skeptic though, because OLED Panel prices will still be too high.

Apple iPad

They estimate that the iPad's 9.7" LCD costs around $60-70. A similar OLED will cost about $500. That gap isn't likely to drop significantly by 2011.

NeoView Kolon is showing some new transparent OLED prototypes. They say that one of the promising uses of these displays is in the automotive industry (to embed those in the front windshield). They are mostly focusing on PM-OLED displays.

One of the displays on show is a 2.4" QVGA AMOLED panel. It supports 16M colors and has a maximum 62% transmittance. The brightness is 1000cd/m2.

Liteye has developed two new head mounted display ("HMD") products equipped with OLED microdisplays from eMagin. The HMD's allows users to locate the display in virtually any position.

Liteye LE-720A

The LE-720A (image above) HMD is a high performance rugged solution for situational awareness applications, available in full color SVGA or monochrome video (is uses eMagin's SVGA+ OLED-XL microdisplays). Prototype LE-720A systems built into Oakley combat goggles are currently being evaluated internationally by military OEMs.