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DisplayMate published a new article focusing on display color accuracy. Testing the six leading mobile displays, DisplayMate tested which ones perform best in terms of color accuracy. While all displays performed very good, DisplayMate found the Galaxy Note 4 to be the winner in this test, achieving the best results in all tested categories.

Historically, people often complained that Samsung's OLED offer overly saturated colors and inaccurate images. It's great to see OLEDs overcome yet another perceived disadvantage and yet again prove that even at its infancy, OLEDs outperform LCDs in yet another aspect.

Several new reports today suggests that Samsung is accelerating its OLED development. First up is Samsung Electronics, which announced that flexible OLEDs is one of three businesses areas it will focus on for future growth (the other two businesses are fin-FET semiconductors and startup incubating).

Samsung Display, meanwhile, updated that they aim to launch a foldable OLED panel (that can be folded in half) by the end of 2015. This is not really news as it was stated back in 2013, but it's still good to hear they still aim to produce foldable displays next year. SDC also hints at a possible multi-edged smartphone that will succeed the Note Edge which uses a one-sided curved OLED.

According to reports, Samsung Display aims to lower the cost of their OLED displays, to be more competitive with LCDs. In fact, it seems that SDC aims to bring small-sized OLED cost below that of competing LCDs.

SDC plan is probably to increase production efficiencies, use better processes - and also to push supply chain suppliers to lower their own component cost. Universal Display for example mentioned a few months ago that Samsung Display requested them to lower their material costs.

Best Buy has been offering LG's 65EC9700 65" 4K OLED TV (the 65EC9700) for a few weeks now (although it seems they are not shipping the TVs yet) - and today Amazon started offering this TV as well - for $9,999. Amazon lists it as "temporarily out of stock" and there's no estimated shipping date yet.

Korean design firm HaeChan Design launched a new OLED luminaire brand called O'CLESS, which exclusively uses LG Chem OLED panels, and already unveiled several new lamps (all will be commercially available this December):

Kateeva unveiled a new mass production flexible OLED thin film encapsulation (TFE) system based on their ink-jet technology. The YIELDjet FLEX can enable cost-effective encapsulation deposition, and Kateeva says that the first mass-production system will ship to a customer in Asia later this month. This customer is probably Samsung Display (which recently invested in Kateeva), but this is not confirmed.

Kateeva says that inkjet printing enables superb particle performance, high efficiency and excellent scalability. The YIELDjet system is enclosed in a pure-nitrogen chamber, which is the best OLED processing environment, shielding the OLED materials from moisture and air. The ink-jet system provides exceptional planarization of substrate surface structures and particles and results in unprecedented film uniformity.

Last week we reported that EverDisplay Optronics (EDO) started mass producing 5" 720p (293 PPI) AMOLED panels for mobile phones - and they already have their first customer, a Chinese handset maker (the first phone to use EDO's OLEDs will launch by the end of 2014).

EDO today updated us that the company is currently producing 600,000 5" panels a month at their 4.5-Gen LTPS fab. The fab is not running in full capacity yet (which is 15,000 monthly substrates) and EDO expects to increase production to a million 5" panels by the end of 2014.

Earlier this month, we reported that Taiwan's WiseChip is entering the OLED lighting market with plans to produce candle-light emitting OLEDs using technology developed at Taiwan's National Tsing-Hua University.

Wisechip already started to produce sample panels, and the first ones were setup in an aboriginal village as street lights - embedded inside a bee-hive like mask taken from rotten wood. This tribe, Tai-Yah (also called Atayal), has been without electricty until 1979 (they were known as the "dark tribe"), and currently the use CFL street lights, but rejected a suggestion by the government to install LED lights.

Colnatec announced a new thin-film controller which they say is an exceptional and affordable alternative to existing models. The Eon-ID (a rackmount unit with an integrated display and intuitive UI) offers a versatile design that incorporates hardware, display and software.

Colnatec says that the Eon-ID is ideal for OLED applications where the crystal can experience excess rate noise which leads to inaccurate thickness measurement and premature crystal failure. Combined with a temperature controlled QCM and a specially treated crystal, Eon-ID can reduce crystal noise to insignificant levels.