There are reports that Samsung is set to release a new Android phone for the Korean market with a 4" Super-AMOLED display. The SHW-M190S will have similar specs to the Galaxy-S but will look differently, and will include an HDMI out:
Last week we reported that Samsung sold over 9.3 million Galaxy S phones, and they're on the way to achieve 10 million in sales. Today Samsung officially announced that the phone sales indeed reached 10 million units.
You can see in the map above that sales reached 2 million in Korea, 4 million in North America and 2.5 million in Europe. By the way - I'm now a proud owner of a Galaxy-S myself... so I contributed a bit there.
Update: the XZ-1 is now official!
There are rumors that Olympus will unveil the XZ-1 pocket camera at CES 2011. It will be the first Olympus camera to have an OLED display (a 3" one). Other features include a 10mp sensor and 28-112mm f/1.8-2.5 lens.
This won't be first Olympus OLED product, actually. Back in 2005 Olympus announced a series of MP3 players with PMOLED displays.
It seems that Samsung will be able to reach its 10 million Galaxy-S sales goal for 2010: they just announced that they have sold 9.3 million phones so far in 2010, and expect to sell at least 10 million by the year's end. In Korea, the Galaxy-S outsold the iPhone 4 during 2010 (2 million units of Galaxy S vs only 1.8 million iPhones).
Samsung Galaxy S
The Galaxy S is an Android phone with a 4" WVGA 800 X 480 Super-AMOLED display.
Nokia's E7 was supposed to start shipping on December 10th, but now it is delayed till 'early 2011'. The E7 is a QWERTY slider running Symbian^3 and has a 4" Clear-Black AMOLED (640x360) display.
Google has released the new Android v2.3 (Gingerbread). One of the updates is a new user interface (UI) - which seems to use more blacks. There are reports that this is so intentionally to take advantage of AMOLED displays (who consume no power on black pixels).
Google Nexus-S
This is not really surprising. It seems that AMOLED is slowly taking over the high-end smartphone market (and Google themselves chose an AMOLED for the Nexus-S phone. Or at least in some versions). Come July 2011, when Samsung's new Gen-5.5 plant (with 10X the capacity of their current plant) begins to produce AMOLEDs - and we're sure to see much more Android phones with AMOLEDs.
Another week, new phone rumors. This time we hear that the Nokia N9 will be a fast (190M polygons/s - the N8 supports only 35M/s) MeeGo device with 12mp camera, 1GB ROM, 190M polygons/s. And the display? a 4.2" AMOLED - with no information on resolution and whether CBD or not.
Back in August we heard that the N9 will have a 4" Super-AMOLED display, but things might have changed since then...
SonyEricsson's LiveView is an interesting device: a small Android communicator with a 1.3" PMOLED display. This week both Engadget and Slashgear posted reviews of this device, and they are both disappointed - mainly with the buggy software and compatibility issues.
The LiveView is now shipping for £55.99 in the UK, we don't know when/if it'll come to the US.
Nokia is said to be working on a new game- and audio-centric phone, the X7. The leaked specs include a 4" AMOLED display, the same one as in the E7 (so this might be a Clear Black Display). Other specs include a 8mp camera, Symbian^3 and four speakers.
According to documents from the DLNA organization, there's a new Samsung phone called the Stealth-V (SCH-i510) that will have a 4.3" AMOLED display (WVGA). Other specs include Android v2.2, a 8mp camera and DLNA of course, over Wi-Fi.
A couple of weeks ago we reported about a new Samsung flagship Android phone due in February 2011. The new phone is said to have a new 4.3" Super-AMOLED 2 display. It might be that the Stealth-V is this mystery phone indeed...
