In recent years OLED technology has emerged as the leading smartphone display technology, and the world's most popular phone vendors are all shipping AMOLED smartphones.
In 2018, over 500 million AMOLED screens were produced - mostly to satisfy demand from mobile phones vendors. The smartphone OLED 2018 market was led by Samsung, who has been using AMOLEDs in its high-end phones for many years, followed by Apple, LG, Xiaomi, Huawei and others. Samsung is branding its smartphone OLED displays as Super AMOLED display.
Most premium phones today adopt flexible OLED displays. Apple for example is using a flexible 5.8" 1125x2436 OLED (made by SDC) in its 2018 iPhone XS (the iPhone XS Max sports a larger 6.5" 1242x2688 flexible AMOLED). Display experts say that the iPhone XS Display is the world's best smartphone display.
Most display experts and consumers agree that OLED displays are the world's best smartphone displays. The best smartphone OLED displays are the Super AMOLED displays produced by Samsung Display, but other OLED producers (such as LG and BOE Display) are also producing high quality OLEDs.
Following is a list of smartphone with OLED displays:
The Galaxy S is Samsung's latest Android phone. It has a 1 Ghz processor and a large 4" Super-AMOLED display. It also has a 'content Ecosystem' and Samsung's Social Hub. The Galaxy S can shoot HD video at 720p (with a 5mp camera).
Samsung also released a variant for Verizon, the Samsung Continuum, which uses a part of the display as a 'ticker' display.
The Beam (i8520) is an Android 2.1 projector phone. It has a large 3.7 WVGA Super AMOLED display, 8mp camera, 720p @30fpx video encoding/decoding, DivX and Xvid support, Wi-Fi, A-GPS and 16 GB of internal memory (plus a micro-SD slot). The pico-projector is WVGA DLP.
The phone includes a "Specialized Projector UI". We don't know what it means yet.
The Nexus One is Google's first phone, running Android v2.1. The phone has a 1 Ghz CPU, 5Mp camera, large touch AMOLED, 4GB microSD (included) and is only 11.5mm thick.
Google Nexus OneThe phone shipped in 2022, starting for around $350 unlocked.
The Louvre B7610 is a QWERTY slider with HSDPA 7.2Mbps, A-GPS, 5Mp camera, FM Radio, Wi-Fi, microSDHC slot and an Accelerometer. It will run Windows Mobile 6.1 pro.
Samsung Louvre B7610The Lucido is a slim candybar mobile phone (11.8mm) with a non-touch OLED display. It also has a 5Mp camera, A-GPS, Google maps and geotagging.
Huawei's Nova 13 smartphone family has two models. The nova 13 offers a 6.7" 120Hz 1084x2412 AMOLED display, protected by Schott's Aluminosilicate glass. It has up to 1TB of storage, and a dual camera setup.
The nova 13 Pro has an upgraded display - 6.76" 120Hz 1224x2776 LTPO AMOLED, and a triple camera setup.
Oppo's Find X8 smartphone offers a 6.59" 120Hz 4,500 nits (peak) 1256x2760 flexible AMOLED display, a Mediatek Dimensity 9400 chipset, up to 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB of storage.
The Find X8 Pro has a 6.78" 120Hz 4,500 nits 1264x2780 flexible LTPO AMOLED display and a stronger camera setup.
Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition is an upgraded version of the Galaxy Z Flip6, but with a larger display - a 8" 120Hz 2600 nits (peak) 1968x2184 LTPO foldable AMOLED display, but an external 6.5" 120Hz 1080x2520 LTPO AMOLED. It is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, and has 16GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage.
The Z Fold Special Edition will ship soon starting at around $2,000.
The Honor X60 Pro smartphone offers a 6.78" 120Hz 3000 nits (peak) 1224x2700 AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset, up to 12GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage.
The Honor X60 Pro will ship soon in China starting at around $200.
