AUO announced it will show several OLED prototypes at the FPD International 2011 exhibition later this week. The company will show a new 32" Full-HD OLED TV prototype. This TV uses a Metal Oxide TFT as backplane and is only 3mm thick. AUO says that the TV has a quick response time and high contrast ratio. Hopefully the company will unveil the specifications and commercialization plans during the conference.

AUO will also show a 4" Flexible AMOLED panel (which is based on Low Temperature Processed Metal Oxide TFT as backplane driver). This panel is only 0.3mm thick.

Here's a long video comparing Samsung's Super AMOLED Plus display (on the Galaxy S2) and LG's Ultra AMOLED display (on the Optimus Sol). The quality of the displays look pretty similar to me...

Philips released a new issue of their Lumiblade magazine. This issue contains short articles by OLED lamp designers, some technical information and a lot of nice OLED lighting panel and lamp photos.

Samsung announced that it has sold over 30 million Galaxy S and Galaxy S II phones worldwide. It was just a month ago that Samsung announced it has sold over 10 million SII phones, so we can assume that Galaxy S sales have reached almost 20 million units (and this phone is still on sale).

The Galaxy-S has a 1 Ghz processor and a large 4" Super-AMOLED display, while the Galaxy S II has a 4.3" WVGA Super AMOLED plus display, 1.2Ghz dual-core processor, NFC, Bluetooth 3 and HSPA+. It's only 8.49mm thick at its thinnest point.

OSD announced a new PMOLED module, the OSD2864P1097-10. It's a monochrome white 128x64 1.3" panel that features 50,000 hours lifetime, 10,000:1 contrast ratio and 178 degree viewing angles. It is available in two version - with and without an anti-glare polarizer (at no extra cost). The OSD12864P1097-10 is paired with an SSD1306 IC offering I2C, 3 wire SPI, 4 wire SPI, 8-bit68xx Parallel and 8-bit 80XX Parallel settings.

Sony announced that the PSP Vita will ship in North America and Europe on February 22nd, 2012. The Vita will ship in Japan on December 17th 2011. Amazon.com also updated their Vita page with the correct release date. The will cost $249 for the Wi-Fi version and $299 for the 3G one).

The Vita features a 5" touch AMOLED display (960x544), a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor and a quad-core PowerVR (SGX543MP4+) GPU (Sony says that it is as powerful as a PS3), Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and 3G (AT&T, optional). Gaming controls include dual analog sticks, motion controls and a multi-touch pad on the rear side.

ICAP Patent Brokerage is organizing a Live IP Auction on November 16 and 17, and there will be two OLED patents on sale. The first patent is titled "Organic Light Emitting Devices (OLED) Materials", authored by Bhalchandra M. Karandikar (US patent #6,689,494). The patents offers using rigidized cyanines as emissive materials in an OLED assembly.

The second patent is titled "Touch Sensitive Organic Light Emitting Diode" and is authored by Lee Young Jong. This is a Korean patent (#KR 1007435450000) and it also includes a US patent application. This patent describes a touch sensing OLED.

If you always wanted an OLED TV, but thought it was too expensive, maybe now's your chance. If you live in the UK, anyway. LG is now offering the EL9500 for "only" £1,058 (down from £1,970, that's almost a 50% drop). If you rather have the Sony XEL-1, it costs £999 (but hurry up, there's only one left in stock).

LG EL9500

If you live in the US, you may be happy to know that the PVM-2541 is now down to $5490. And you'll get Sony's latest 25.4" OLED panel, Full-HD (1080p), 178-degrees viewing angle, 10-bit drivers and a 1W mono speaker.

Toshiba has developed a new 6.1" LTPS LCD panel that features 2560x1600 resolution - that's 498 ppi. The panel also features 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 16.7 million colors and 176-degrees viewing angles.

Toshiba wouldn't say whether they have plans to commercialize this display...

WAC Lighting announced their SOL OLED chandelier back in May 2010, and finally that lamp is shipping. The company used that period to refine the product and upgrade the Orbeos OLED panels (to the new models which are brighter and sport better CRI).

The SOL costs $9,995, and is available through over a dozen lighting shops in the US and Canada. The chandelier is crafted of aluminum and finished in Black Nickel. It is 18.5 inches in diameter and only 2.2 inches tall. The overall height of the chandelier, with supporting metal rod, is 12.25 40 inches tall.