Remember the man with the OLED hat at CES? He was showing Recom's OLED Video-Name Tag products (with a 2.8", 320x240 OLED display). Now we've found a video of this guy:
Recom's OLED tags last for about 6 hours and Recom thinks it'll be useful for waiters, business man, promoters, service reps,
advertising, etc. They cost $200 each.
Update: Sony announced the PSP2 (NGP) - which indeed includes a 5" touch AMOLED!
There are some reports from Japan that the new Sony PSP2 mobile gaming console will have an OLED display. The report says that the display will be 'larger than normal' - the original PSP has a 3.8" (480x272) LCD, so we assume that the OLED will be 4" or more.
Sony are expected to announce the new PSP later this week. Other unofficial features include 3G support (for over-the-air multiplayer gaming and game downloads) and Wi-Fi. This is not the Playstation Phone that is also expected from Sony, and the PSP2 will not include phone capabilities.
After years of refraining from having a smart phone, I finally bought a Galaxy S. The Super AMOLED display is terrific - and everyone I show it to says it is impressive ("so That's what you've been talking about all those years...").
Update: The E7 is now finally shipping!
Nokia announced today that they are accepting pre-orders for the E7 smart phone in Finland. The E7 was actually supposed to start shipping on December 2010, but was later delayed to 2011. The E7 is a QWERTY slider running Symbian^3 and has a 4" Clear-Black AMOLED (640x360) display.
Olympus announced (well, sort of, it appears in Amazon) the price of the XZ1 - $449. You can pre-order this exciting camera now too. The XZ1 is an "enthusiast compact' camera with a bright lens (F1.18 at 28mm and F2.5 at 112mm), 10mp sensor and image stabilization. The display is a 3" VGA OLED. The camera can record 720p videos and has a built-in flash and a hotshoe.
Unfortunately, we still do not have a release date...
There are reports that Samsung is set to announce the successor to the successful Galaxy S during MWC 2011 (Samsung officially said that they will announce new Super AMOLED Plus phones during the conference). The Galaxy S2 (not an official name yet) will have a 4.3" Super AMOLED Plus display, a dual-core processor, Android v2.3 and NFC support (as in Google's Nexus S phone which is made by Samsung).
This phone was actually leaked in November 2010. Back then it was said that the phone will include a 8mp camera (capable of Full-HD 1080p recording), 1.2Ghz processor, Android v2.3 and 16GB of on board memory.
CNet spotted someone walking around with an 'OLED hat' at the CES exhibition - actually a hat with several OLED displays (2.8", 320x240 each) on it. It seems that the Recom group is pushing their Video-Name Tag products...
Recom's OLED tags last for about 6 hours and Recom thinks it'll be useful for waiters, business man, promoters, service reps, advertising, etc. They cost $200, although at CES you could buy them for $150.
Samsung says that they will show new phones in the Mobile World Congress (on February) - that will use Super AMOLED Plus displays. The phones will also feature Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) and dual-code processors.
The company also plans to announce new tablet computers (not clear whether they'll also do so in the MWC exhibition or at a later date) - new Galaxy Tabs. No word on the display used in those, but we know that Samsung will soon produce 7" Super AMOLED panels...
Update: It seems that the OLED microdisplays are made by Sony themselves and not by eMagin...
Sony is showing a new 3D Head-Mounted-Display (visor) prototype - that uses two 720p (1280×720) OLED microdisplays. Other features includes 5.1 surround audio and a blue LED strip on the front.
This is just a prototype, but it's good to see Sony using OLEDs there (the OLED microdisplays are made by Sony).
Update: We got some new details about these new displays.
Samsung has announced their latest AMOLED display, the Super AMOLED Plus. They say that the new display feature 50% more sub-pixels, and also features improvements in contrast and outdoor readability over the 'original' Super AMOLED displays. Samsung also announced the first phone to sport these new displays - the Infuse 4G. The display is a 4.5" one, the largest AMOLED Samsung ever made!
Back in July 2010, Samsung announced that they plan to soon double their AMOLED displays' efficiency, lifetime and power consumption. Perhaps the Super AMOLED Plus is the result of that research. We first heard of an upgrade to the Super-AMOLED technology in November 2010, we thought the name would be Super AMOLED 2.
