Samsung already announced that the Note 2 will be launched on August 29, and today they have released a short teaser video towards the event:
The video doesn't show much beside the stylus, and the saying that the new device will be "a small and light thing". Rumors on the web suggest that the Note 2 may be the first device with a flexible YOUM plastic-based AMOLED display.
Blackbody unveiled new experimental OLED installations designed by Cibicworkshop (Aldo Cibic and Tommaso Corà ). The new collection (called WonderOLED) uses both round and rectangle OLED panels.
WonderOLED includes four installations:
Samsung announced that they have shipped over 10 million Galaxy Note phones, since launching it nine months ago. The Note is very successful, and Samsung will announce its successor on August 29 (and it may or may not sport a flexible YOUM plastic-based AMOLED display).
Samsung's Galaxy Note is a large Android v2.3 phone/tablet (some call it a phablet) with a 5.3" Super AMOLED display with an HD resolution: 1280x800. Other specs include a dual-core 1.4Ghz processor, 8mp camera, touch display with pen input (it has a stylus). The phone is 9.65mm thick and weights 178 grams.
Jennifer Colegrove from DisplaySearch gave a talk at the Emerging Display Technologies conference a few days ago. DisplaySearch now estimates that the OLED display market will reach $44 billion in 2019. The OLED TV market will begin to take off in 2015 with rapid growth. The OLED lighting market will reach $6.3 billion by 2018.
Jennifer also says that within 3 years, 10 new AMOLED factories will become online - this includes both new factories and upgraded ones.
Update: it seems that the 970V model will be the stand model and the 975V will be the wall-mounted model. The OLED panel itself will be the same in both models.
The European Imaging and Sound Associations (EISA) has selected LG's upcoming 55" OLED TV for its European Display Achievement Award. Interestingly, EISA named two different models - the 55EM970V and 55EM975V. When LG launched its OLED TV, they named the model 55EM960V (in the US it will be called 55EM9600). So not only did they change the model a bit, they will also have two different ones. The difference will probably be small (as the difference is slight).
Bruker announced a new photoconductive atomic-force Microscopy (pcAFM) module for the Dimension Icon platform. The new modules enables sample illumination while performing nanoscale electrical characterization. Bruker says that the new module (combined with their PeakForce TUNA technology) enables the highest resolution photoconductivity and nanomechanical mapping for OLED (or OPV) device samples.
The new modules provides uniform backside illumination and can be fiber coupled to industry-standard solar simulators for OPV testing. It is compatible with Bruker’s turnkey 1ppm glove box configuration.
Ynvisible (based in Portugal) is developing flexible transparent electrochromic e-paper like displays, Electrochromic materials change their color when electricity is applied. The company is already producing some displays in low volume (and offering some "demo" devices on-line), and were kind enough to send our sister site E-Ink-Info a sample gift card showing off their displays.
The display is quite impressive. It's very basic (it shows a pre-printed image and has a very low contrast), but it's transparent, and flexible and frankly very nice. The material they use in this sample changes from transparent to being blue. When off, it looks exactly like a normal piece of plastic - totally transparent and bendable (flexible).
Back in May we reported that Audi installed an AMOLED digital rear view "mirror" in their R18 sports prototype car. The AMOLED display was chosen because of the high density, excellent image quality and very fast response time (good even at 330 km/h). Now Audi announced that they will use this AMOLED "mirror" in the upcoming R8 e-tron car that will be available by the end of 2012. The e-tron will be a small-volume electric road car that has no rear window and thus cannot use a conventional mirror.
Audi also reveals that the AMOLED display itself is 7.7" in size and is made by Samsung Display (which isn't really surprising).
eMagin reported their Q2 2012 results with record revenues of $8.6 million (a 15.3% increase over Q2 2011). Net income was $577,000. eMagin has about $13.3 million in cash. During Q2 the company bought back 125,000 shares (average price $2.95).
Andrew Sculley (eMagin's CEO) says that eMagin have finally started to produce microdisplays on their new deposition machine. The machine isn't yet fully optimized, and they are also producing on their older Satella machine. eMagin says that once the new machine is fully optimized (they need to automate a certain process still), capacity will grow 10-fold, and the displays will have better uniformity - which will increase quality and yields.
A few weeks ago we reported about a new Indonesian phone with a 2.4" transparent OLED panel, reportedly made by NeoView Kolon. Today I checked NeoView's site, and indeed it seems that the company is now shipping transparent PMOLED panels - and also OLED lighting panels.
NeoView offers four different transparent PMOLEDs: 2.41" 240x342, 16M-colors panels, a 1.98" 128x160 panel (262K colors) and monochrome (blue or white) 1.3" panels. Lifetime is quoted at 10,000 @40% on (I don't think they mean LT40, but that's not very clear).
