Yoon Boo-keun, the head of Samsung's TV business unit says that "It's too premature to commercialize OLED TVs due to strong price resistance. Consumers will not buy it without affordable prices, leaving small room for greater marketability,". While Samsung seems to believe that OLED TVs are "coming soon", the company will probably not start to make them while they're so expensive.

Samsung 40-inch OLED prototype

This is in contrast to LG, who will soon release their 2nd OLED TV - a 31" one that will cost around $9000. Obviously LG also knows that these are very expensive and they'll only be able to sell a handful.

Verizon are finally offering their own Galaxy S variant (called the Samsung Fascinate). Interestingly, they offer to get two phones for the price of one: with two-year contract on two phones and minimum $29.99 monthly payment. The Galaxy S has a 1 Ghz processor and a large 4" Super-AMOLED display.

Samsung Galaxy S

You can buy the Galaxy S unlocked for $599.

So, Nokia's N8 is finally shipping, in the UK at least. The N8 will arrive at Nokia's on-line shops at the last week of September, and in UK retail shops on October 1st. The N8 will cost £429 unlocked, and free for a £35 per month contract. The N8 has a large (3.5") touch OLED and runs Symbian^3 on a 680Mhz CPU. It also has Wi-Fi, a microSD slot and a 12mp camera.

Update: The NX100 is now official!

Samsung's new camera, the NX100 has been leaked - and according to the the source, it has an AMOLED display (with 921K dots). The NX100 is a micro-four-thirds camera with an external (optional) EVF and GPS unit.

Philips Research developed the first white OLED module that can be powered directly from a mains electricity supply. Philips says that such an OLED will be cheaper to use (there's no need for a bulky power management circuitry) and will also simplify luminaire design.

"We have combined proprietary interconnect and packaging technology to create this demonstrator," says Dr. Dirk Hente of Philips Research. "We’re already seeing AC-driven LEDs coming onto the market. Our prototype marks a breakthrough step towards a similar evolution in OLEDs.".

Samsung (or actually Lee Woo-Jong, SMD's marketing VP) is giving us some interesting updates on their AMOLED displays and production plants. So first of all, they expect the new 5.5-Gen plant to start mass producing in July 2011. The new plant will increase Samsung's AMOLED capacity ten-fold: from 3 million displays a month to 30 million (assuming all displays made in the new plant will be around 3").

Samsung also says that they now expect AMOLED screens shipments to reach 700 million by 2015 (in May, they said it'll be 600).

A Samsung executive talks about the Galaxy Tab display. He said that while Super-AMOLED is the best-in-class display, they are using S-LCD because it's cheaper, there's no supply issues, and it's actually more efficient than AMOLEDs currently (that's not the first time we hear this).

The good news is that next year we're expecting AMOLED supply to rise sharply. And Samsung are planning to double the efficiency of their AMOLED displays soon.

Sony is showing a new Walkman, the NWZ-S754. Engadget says that the contrast looks so good that it could be an OLED. It looks very much like the NW-A840 which do have a 2.8" OLED (Sony released quite a few OLED walkmans in the past few years).

Beside the beautiful display, the NWZ-S765 has 8GB memory (at least in the model they're showing at the IFA show). It comes in black or silver.

Remember Samsung's Galaxy Beam? Samsung is showing this projector-phone (launched in July in Singapore) at the IFA 2010 show. Hopefully this means that a European release will be announced soon... The Galaxy Beam has a 3.7" Super-AMOLED, WVGA DLP pico-projector, Android v2.1, Wi-Fi, 8mp camera, A-GPS, FM radio and HD video recording.

A few days ago we reported that Sprint was pleased with the first-day response of the Epic 4G phone. Now Sprint says that the phone "became one of Sprint's best-selling devices for first-day sales". There still won't give exact sales numbers. The Super-AMOLED display is one of the phone's major selling point, according to Sprint: "With its beautiful Super AMOLED touch-screen, full QWERTY keyboard and two cameras, Samsung Epic 4G is a terrific smartphone that delivers the promise of the Sprint 4G network".