Nokia is said to be working on a new game- and audio-centric phone, the X7. The leaked specs include a 4" AMOLED display, the same one as in the E7 (so this might be a Clear Black Display). Other specs include a 8mp camera, Symbian^3 and four speakers.
Update: This phone indeed uses a transparent PMOLED!
Lenovo is showing off a new phone, the S-800, which uses a transparent color display. We don't know anything about this phone beside some photos - including what kind of display it uses. It could be a transparent OLED...
Lenovo are already using AMOLED displays in two phones: The LePhone and the Music-Phone.
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has approved subsidies totaling NT$600 million ($20 million) - which will go into two projects, one of them being AUO's AMOLED project.
AUO 14-inch OLED prototypeAUO are gearing up towards AMOLED mass production in Q2 2011, and they plan to produce small- and medium-size displays using 3.5-Gen and 4.5-Gen lines. AUO are also working towards flexible AMOLED displays. We're not sure which project is being subsidized by this grant.
According to documents from the DLNA organization, there's a new Samsung phone called the Stealth-V (SCH-i510) that will have a 4.3" AMOLED display (WVGA). Other specs include Android v2.2, a 8mp camera and DLNA of course, over Wi-Fi.
A couple of weeks ago we reported about a new Samsung flagship Android phone due in February 2011. The new phone is said to have a new 4.3" Super-AMOLED 2 display. It might be that the Stealth-V is this mystery phone indeed...
According to a new report by Shinhan Investment, Samsung and LG are expected to invest 19 trillion won (around $16.5 billion) in the next 5 years in AMOLED production. Samsung is expected to invest around 11 trillion won ($9.5 billion) in 5.5-Gen lines in 2011-2 and in 8th-gen lines (that will be used to build OLED TV panels) later on. This is about the same amount of money Samsung invested in LCD production in 2006-2010. LG's investment will account to 8 trillion won ($7 billion), and will include 4.5-Gen lines, 5.5-Gen lines and larger ones later on.
Here's how the AMOLED investment will look like each year, according to the report (in $ billion) :
| Year | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Total |
| $Billion | 3.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3 | 16.5 |
Amulet Technologies announced the GEMexpress 2, a universal LCD/OLED display driver board that supports resolutions up to 800x600. This is an update to the original GEMexpress - with double the flash memory (to 64 megabit) and has four times the SDRAM memory (256 megabit).
The GEMexpress 2 is a six-layer pCB board (1.5"x3.0") that features Amulet's own GEM chip (which includes the LCD controller, touch panel decoder, ARM7 processor, and patented Graphical OS).
Research Analyst Lavanya Rammohan from Frost and Sullivan will host a short teleconference on December 1st about the OLED TV and 3D TV markets.
Lavanya will provide a concise analysis of the markets, along with identifying key market trends that are expected to have a significant impact on growth rates. Highlights of this briefing include an analysis of market trends, demand analysis, revenue forecasts trends, growth opportunities and competitive analysis. This will be followed by a live Q&A session.
Jeri Ellsworth, an "American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer", documents her amateur science experiments: and this time she's making OLEDs. Here's a nice video, in which she explains how LEDs and OLEDs works, and later she actually creates an OLED using materials from Polymetronics:
Mitsubishi installed the first Diamond Vision OLED screen at Merck's new Material Research Center ( Darmstadt, Germany) back in September. And we finally have an official photo:
The display measures 3.84m by 2.3m with a 1280x768 resolution, built from 60 PMOLED modules (each is 128x128), and weights a total of 480Kg.
We don't usually post about OLED concepts, but here's an interesting design: a mobile phone that uses a 'double-display' which is an OLED display on top of an E Ink display, and both are transparent. You can switch between the displays: so when power is low, you can use the E Ink to conserve battery. A nice touch is that if you're using the E Ink display, the degree of transparency of the display shows how much battery is remaining. The more transparent the display, the less battery remaining. Nice.
This is pretty far reaching, and we're not sure if it's possible to create a transparent E Ink. But maybe a nice touch is the 'more transparent the display is, the less battery remaining'. Perhaps it can be used in OLEDs as well: the less power, the less bright the OLED is...
