DPReview has posted a very detailed review of the Samsung NX10 micro-thirds DSLR camera (a mirror-less interchangeable lens APS-C). They give it a 69% rating, saying that "It's a small, likeable camera that is readily capable of matching the image quality of its peers but a few minor failings prevent it standing out in a sector full of highly capable cameras.".

Samsung NX10

They are very pleased with the AMOLED display: "the appearance is excellent, though, with the display giving a very bright, high-contrast image even when viewed from angles that would be unthinkable with LCDs."

The NX10 is now shipping for $700 in the US.

Universal Display Corporation has been awarded a $500,000 Phase II contract from
the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its novel thin-film encapsulation technology, focused on flexible OLEDs for lighting and displays. UDC's encapsulation is single-layer, ultra-hermetic, transparent and flexible. It's also environmental friendly, and can also be used for solar cells, batteries and sensors.

There are reports that Samsung are ready to release an update to their popular Moment phone, to be called the Moment 2. Specs will pretty much be the same, but it'll have Android 2.1 and TouchWiz 3. The original Moment has a 3.2" touch AMOLED (not a Super-AMOLED, and apparently the Moment 2 will have the same display), full QWERTY slider, 800Mhz processor, Wi-Fi and GPS.

Samsung Moment 2

The moment is a very popular phone and it was the #1 best selling smartphone on Amazon for a while. Samsung will also release an Android 2.1 update to original Moment owners.

CDT say they have produced an ITO-free PLED Lighting device, using a fine copper mesh. They have collaborated with Conductive Inkjet Technology (CIT) in the NOMAD project funded by the UK's government.

ITO is expensive and brittle, and is not so useful for flexible electronics. The new manufacturing method demonstrated in the NOMAD project reduces costs by eliminating ITO along with significantly reducing the capital and processing costs for patterning metal bus bars which distribute current and ensure the uniformity of light emission. CIT’s process eliminates the need for traditional vacuum sputtering equipment and etching tanks.

Researchers from the University of Berkeley found a new way to process
white OLEDs for solid state lighting. They are using Red, Blue and Green Phosphorescent OLED materials that usually suffer from interference between them when trying to create white light. But the researchers used polymer nanoparticles (iridium-based) to house the OLED materials, and these are used as a "do not disturb" sign, isolating guest molecules from one another, and enabling them to emit light without interactions from other colors.

The Cheorwon Plasma Research Institute (CPRI) is set to change its focus to OLED Lighting. The institute will start a pilot development program in 2010, and they will purchase an in-line evaporator for about $2.2 million. They are constructing a pilot production facility and hope to establish an OLED Lighting manufacturer in Cheorwon founded by the Institute's researchers.

PPML (together with OSRAM) will show two new OLED design demonstrators at the Light+Building 2010 fair (April 11st, Frankfurt, Germany). The designs use standard ORBEOS OLED Lighting panels, and also new transparent panels (both made by OSRAM). The designs have been derived from concepts received under the OLED Design Contest (organized by the CombOLED project).

mOvement

The first design is called mOvement (by the designer Marco Pezzoli) is using a modular cell to create personalized lighting scenarios that can be used by retail stores and museums for the exhibition of products and art objects under a non-conventional lighting scenario. This particular piece (shown above) uses 90 ORBEOS panels.

o-Frame

The second piece is called o-Frame (by designer Federica Del Ponte) and uses a transparent OLED for a "luxury object" showcase box. When the box is closed, the OLED is off (transparent) and you can look inside. When you open, it lights up.

Ingo Maurer, who designed the world's first OLED lamp back in 2006 (using OSRAM's OLED Lighting panels) says they will soon show new OLED designs using transparent panels from Novaled and ORBEOS panels from OSRAM.

Update: We now have photos and more details on these OLED lamps...

DisplaySearch released a new Quarterly OLED Shipment and Forecast Report in which they say that OLED revenue was $826 million in 2009 - a record year. AMOLED revenue was $537 million, and PMOLED revenue was $291 (lower than 2008, mostly because mobile phone design is moving away from clamshell phones).

Samsung Mobile Display is still the biggest OLED maker, with $566 million in revenues. Samsung is followed by RiTdisplay ($106 million), Pioneer ($60 million), TDK and Visionox ($15 million).

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