According to a story on ETNews, Samsung aims to use a full-screen display in its next flagship phone, the Galaxy S8. To achieve such a display, Samsung is using a flexible AMOLED that is wrapped around all four sides of the phone (unlike its current edge phones that are cured on two edges only).

ETNews also says that SDC is set to update its OLED material recipe. The so-called M7 iteration was used in the Galaxy Note 5, the GS7 and the Note 7. But now Samsung is updating its recipe to M8. You can see the different suppliers in the chart above. Most materials are sourced from the same supplier, but of course the suppliers are offering newer, updated materials and Samsung may switch to those.

Yeolight Technology (which was spun-off Visionox in May 2015) announced its first OLED lamp, the limited-edition OLED Organic Lamp. The OLED lamp was designed by Qiu Song, an industrial designer from Tsinghua University. The lamp design inspiration came from swan feathers - "with its effortless glide on the mirror of a lake, unfurling flight, this OLED lamp brings us the beauty of serenity".

Yeolight will produce only 500 lamps, with the price set at 2,200 RMB (around $325 USD). Yeolight now accepts orders and ships globally.

Taiwan-based PMOLED maker Wisechip is set to demonstrate its new flexible and transparent PMOLED displays. In August 2016 Wisechip announced that it is set to mass produce transparent PMOLEDs by the end of 2016.

Wisechip already unveiled a 1.07" 160x136 transparent OLED, and this time the company will show a 4.1" transparent OLED, with a transparency of 65% and a high brightness of over 3,000 nits. This display is aimed towards automotive HUD applications.

Microdisplay-expert (and personal friend) Karl Guttag posted an interesting article in which he delves deep into Magic Leap's patent filing and demonstrations to try and understand the technology used by the stealth AR startup that raised over $2 billion from Google and other companies.

While it seems that Magic Leap is developing several different technologies and perhaps even several devices based on different displays, Karl's conclusion is that an OLED Microdisplay is the most likely candidate for Magic Leap's demonstration unit (which may be different from the actual future commercial version).

In Apple's recent financial filings, the company details a $4 billion purchase order with more than a year duration. This purchase order coincides with an "off-balance sheet obligation" for the same amount from the third quarter.

J.P. Morgan's analyst says that this order is related to Apple's long-term OLED sourcing deal from Samsung Display - probably for the next-gen OLED iPhone. J.P. Morgan further connects this order to a comment by Apple that it may have trouble acquiring troublesome components "on commercially reasonable terms". OLEDs indeed are currently supply-strained and Apple needed to make sure it has enough capacity.

Universal Display reported its financial results Q3 2016: revenues were $30.2 million (down from $39.4 million in Q3 2015) and the net loss was $1.5 million (down from $7 million in Q3 2015). UDC says that the lower revenues are due to increased customer production efficiency and product mix - and also a decline in host material sales. Royalties fees were $5.2 million, unchanged from last year.

UDC has $301 million in cash and equivalents, and in the third quarter the company generated $4.1 million. The company's guidance for full-year 2016 remains unchanged, and revenues are expected to be in the range of $190 million to $200 million.

Merck and Idemitsu Kosan have entered into a collaboration agreement that allows each company to use the other company's OLED material-related IP in certain areas. Both Merck and Idemitsu hope that this will enable both companies to develop higher-performance OLED materials.

Merck and Idemitsu also expect to continue discussions and expand the collaboration to other areas in the future.

Asus' 3rd-gen ZenWatch is now shipping for $225. The ZenWatch 3 is an Android Wear smartwatch that features a 1.39" 400x400 (287 PPI) AMOLED display, a SnapDragon Wear 2100 CPU, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage.

Samsung Display is still struggling with technical issues in its large-area OLED TV program, and SDC's TV focus switched to quantum dots enhanced LCDs a couple of years ago. These TVs use the photoluminescence of QDs to enhance the white-light produced by the LED backlights.

But quantum dots also feature electroluminescence - which means that these materials can be used to directly emit light, in a similar way to OLED materials. This technology has several challenges to overcome before it can be mass produced though, but Digitimes Research now reports that Samsung is aiming to produce so-called Q-LED TVs by 2019.

Black Friday is coming soon, and it seems that retailers are already slashing prices in early deals. Amazon.com now lists LG's entry-level 2016 OLED TVs, the flat 4K OLEDB6 and the curved 4K OLEDC6 at new low prices - the 55" models now cost $1,997 (including a bonus wall mount kit). This follows last week's price reduction from $2,599 to $1,999. The 65" model still cost $2,997.

The OLEDB6 is a series of flat-panel 4K smart OLED TVs that feature LG's webOS 3.0, Color Prime PRO technology and HDR. The TVs does not support 3D. The OLEDC6 is similar but with a curved panel.