Super AMOLED: introduction and market status - Page 22

Update: There are actually three new phones, the C6-01, C7 and E7.

Nokia has just announced three new Smartphones - the E7, C6 and the C7. All use AMOLED touch displays. The E7 has a 4" display, the C7 a 3.5" one and the C6 a 3.2" one. The E7 and C6 displays use Nokia's new ClearBlack Display technology (CBD) - which is said to deliver better outdoor visibility.

The phones will be released towards the end of 2010, in Europe. The E7 will cost €495, the C6 will cost €260 and the C7 will cost €335.

Samsung (or actually Lee Woo-Jong, SMD's marketing VP) is giving us some interesting updates on their AMOLED displays and production plants. So first of all, they expect the new 5.5-Gen plant to start mass producing in July 2011. The new plant will increase Samsung's AMOLED capacity ten-fold: from 3 million displays a month to 30 million (assuming all displays made in the new plant will be around 3").

Samsung also says that they now expect AMOLED screens shipments to reach 700 million by 2015 (in May, they said it'll be 600).

A Samsung executive talks about the Galaxy Tab display. He said that while Super-AMOLED is the best-in-class display, they are using S-LCD because it's cheaper, there's no supply issues, and it's actually more efficient than AMOLEDs currently (that's not the first time we hear this).

The good news is that next year we're expecting AMOLED supply to rise sharply. And Samsung are planning to double the efficiency of their AMOLED displays soon.

Remember Samsung's Galaxy Beam? Samsung is showing this projector-phone (launched in July in Singapore) at the IFA 2010 show. Hopefully this means that a European release will be announced soon... The Galaxy Beam has a 3.7" Super-AMOLED, WVGA DLP pico-projector, Android v2.1, Wi-Fi, 8mp camera, A-GPS, FM radio and HD video recording.

A few days ago we reported that Sprint was pleased with the first-day response of the Epic 4G phone. Now Sprint says that the phone "became one of Sprint's best-selling devices for first-day sales". There still won't give exact sales numbers. The Super-AMOLED display is one of the phone's major selling point, according to Sprint: "With its beautiful Super AMOLED touch-screen, full QWERTY keyboard and two cameras, Samsung Epic 4G is a terrific smartphone that delivers the promise of the Sprint 4G network".

Samsung has officially launched the Galaxy Tab today - and it has a 7" TFT-LCD display. Even though we had rumors of a Super-AMOLED display for months, an LCD was expected. Like we posted earlier today: Samsung can't keep up with AMOLED production demand as it is, and there's no way they can use OLEDs in new devices.

Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab

Beside the 7" TFT-LCD 9that has a 1024x600 resolution, by the way), the Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1Ghz A9 processor, has 16/32GB of internal memory and a microSD slot, 1.3mp front camera and a 3mp rear camera, 3G for data and voice (but no earpiece - you have you use bluetooth or a speakerphone), Wi-Fi and Full-HD video playback.

Sprint Nextel said it was pleased with the first-day response of the Epic 4G phone. They didn't give any sales numbers though. The Samsung Epic 4G phone costs $199 (with a new contract). The Epic 4G is a 1Ghz Android (v2.1) QWERTY slider for Sprint's WiMax network. It has a large (4") Super-AMOLED, 5mp camera (capable of 720p video recording), 802.11b/g/n WiFi and a six-axis accelerometer.

Sprint has started selling the Samsung Epic 4G phone for $199 (with a new contract). The Epic 4G (or Galaxy Pro) is a 1Ghz Android (v2.1) QWERTY slider for Sprint's WiMax network. It has a large (4") Super-AMOLED, 5mp camera (capable of 720p video recording), 802.11b/g/n WiFi and a six-axis accelerometer.

Samsung say that they have sold over a million Galaxy-S phones in the US - in just 45 days. The phone started shipping on July 15, and is currently available for AT&T and T-Mobile (it will soon be available with Sprint, Verizon, U.S. Cellular and Cellular South). Amazon are now offering it for AT&T at no cost (with a new plan), It is now AT&T's best selling phone in Amazon!. The Galaxy-S, Samsung's latest Android phone, has a 1 Ghz processor and a large 4" Super-AMOLED display.

Samsung Galaxy S

You can also buy the Galaxy S unlocked for $599.

Engadget has posted a short video showing a preview of Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablet computer. So it's not official yet, but according to the video, it has a LED-LCD, not a Super-AMOLED. We'd obviously love Samsung to release a tablet with an AMOLED, but realistically it's unlikely - they can't keep up with current demand of small AMOLEDs for mobile phones...