Samsung Electronics says that they have sold 3 million units of the Galaxy S II - just 55 days after its release. That's one unit per 1.5 seconds. The S II is Samsung's quickest selling phone - much faster than the Galaxy S which took 85 days to reach 3 million units.
The company originally planned to sell 10 million units in 2011, but it seems that they will surpass that number...
Olympus' PEN E-P3 can now be pre-ordered from Amazon.com (for $899). You can also pre-order it in the UK for £799.99. The E-P3 is an interchangeable lens type digital camera with the world's faster auto-focus, a new 12.3mp Live MOS Sensor, Full-HD movie encoding and a 3" VGA OLED touch display.
Imerj and Frog has unveiled a new Android phone (or is it a mini-tablet) prototype that has two 4" WVGA AMOLED displays. When closed it's just like a regular phone (although quite thick), and when open you get a 6" 800x960 tablet - although the displays are separated by a few millimeters. In the 'open' mode the device is rather thin - just 7mm. This is just a prototype - but the companies say it's a few months from production.
The specs of this unnamed prototype: a dual-core TI OMAP processor, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage (there will be more models, up to 128GB!), micro SD card, Android, 5Mp camera (720p video).
According to reports, LG Display started to provide OLED displays to Nokia (the deal to supply OLEDs to Nokia was announced back in January 2011). Currently it's only a small amount of displays, but they say that Nokia is already shipping phones with LGD's OLEDs. The rest of Nokia's OLEDs come from Samsung Mobile Display. LG Display started producing AMOLEDs in their 4.5-Gen plant in February 2011.
The same report says that LG Electronics will release an OLED phone in the second half of 2011. LGD's "main display" will remain IPS-LCD, but they are ramping up OLED capacity in their Paju plant.
Engadget posted a short hands-on review on the new Nokia N9. They claim that the display uses Nokia's Clear Black Display (CBD) technology - although Nokia's own press release never mentioned that. CBD adds a special filter on top of the display which blocks light reflection - and helps the AMOLED perform better outdoors.
In any case, Engadget say that the AMOLED display "is truly a sight to behold, with stunning viewing angles, a curved Gorilla Glass front, and some pretty excellent (for AMOLED) performance out in the sunlight... It's easily one of this new phone's great strengths".
Sony announced that their second-gen portable gaming console (the PSP2) will be called Vita. The Vita will cost $249 for the Wi-Fi version for $299 for the 3G one. In Europe it will cost €249 and €299. The vita will ship worldwide towards the end of 2011.
Sony's second-generation mobile gaming console features a 5" touch OLED display (960x544), a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor and a quad-core PowerVR (SGX543MP4+) GPU (Sony says that it is as powerful as a PS3), Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and 3G (AT&T, optional). Gaming controls include dual analog sticks, motion controls and a multi-touch pad on the rear side.
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Samsung says that they sold over a million Galaxy S II phones in Korea - in just a month (one phone sold every 3 seconds...). This is a new record for Korea (the previous reord was the Galaxy S - which took 70 days to sell a million units). The Galaxy S II actually broke several records, selling 100,000 units in 3 days, 200,000 units in 8 days and 500,000 in two weeks.
In early May Samsung said that they got over three million pre-orders for the S II. The company originally planned to sell 10 million units in 2011, it seems that they will sell more if the success continues...
Tim Cook (Apple's COO and acting CEO) has visited South Korea last week, and there are reports that he discussed using Samsung's AMOLED displays for the iPad 3. According to the reports, the iPad 3 will launch towards the end of 2011 (by then Samsung's Gen-5.5 plant will have a 48,000 monthly substrate capacity), and Apple offered an advance payment for the displays.
Samsung 7-inch Super AMOLED prototype
These are just rumors currently (A SMD spokesperson said "he had not heard of such discussions with Apple"). But this is the first time that it's at least plausible for Apple to use OLEDs as up until today Samsung's capacity was simply not enough. Back in October 2010 it was rumored that Samsung sold all of their 2011 AMOLED capacity to Apple.
Remember NKK's Rocker OLED Switch? It's a unique snap-in switch with a programmable monochrome white PMOLED display (96x64) that is IP64 water resistance rated. User selection is based on menus visible on the display and multiple layers of menus can be achieved. The company now offers a development kit for $265 (or a kit with two switches for $315).
