Samsung says that by the end of next week they'll sell 2 million Galaxy S phones in the US. They sold 1 million units in 45 days, and it seems that they're actually selling them faster now. The Galaxy-S, Samsung's latest Android phone, has a 1 Ghz processor and a large 4" Super-AMOLED display.
Samsung Galaxy S
Samsung's NX100 is now shipping in the UK for £558 ($870). We do not have a US price or release date yet. The NX100 is an APS-C (micro-four-thirds) DSLR camera (the successor to the NX10) with a 14.6mp sensor, 3" AMOLED display, 720p movie recording and an optional GPS module. The NX100 uses Samsung's new i-Function lens system that uses the focus ring to change other photo parameters as well.
HTC has already switched to S-LCDs in their Desire and Nexus-One phones - due to AMOLED supply shortage. They say that they look pretty much the same, but the S-LCD actually uses less power. Now we hear that they might do the same for the Droid Incredible phone - which was also suffering from supply issues.
HTC Incredible
Samsung announced that they can't meet customer demand in their AMOLED plant - and they won't be able to do so until early next year (at the earliest).
Nokia has launched three new smartphones today, two of which (The E7 and the C6-01) use Nokia's new Clear Black Display (CBD) technology which is said to perform better outdoors than a normal AMOLED. Nokia says that the display is a polarized AMOLED. This might actually be just Nokia's name for a Samsung made Super-AMOLED display, we do not know yet.
Nokia E7
Engadget really likes the display: "The screen is simply gorgeous -- ClearBlack may be a gimmicky trademark, but CBD's black levels are no joke. We're definitely talking Super AMOLED degrees of awesome...".
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 â¬495, the C6 will cost â¬260 and the C7 will cost â¬335.
Mitsubishi Electric says that they will start selling the Diamond Vision OLED displays in 100" and above sizes on September 21st. The Diamond Vision (announced back in October 2009) is a modular displays for indoor use. Each module is 384mx384mm, with 128x128 resolution. Each pixel is about 3mm in size, you need to view the displays from at least two meters away.
155-inch Diamond-Vision prototypeThe Diamond Vision is bright (1,200cd/m²) and has a good contrast (twice as better as LED, says Mitsubishi) - so it can be used in brightly-lit areas such as airports or stations. The OLEDs were jointly developed by Mitsubishi and Pioneer.
Shin Jong-Khun, Samsung's telecom unit CEO says that Samsung plans to expand the Galaxy Tab lineup with two new models - a 6" and a 10" one, both with AMOLED displays. A few days ago we reported that Digitimes estimates AMOLED tabs in 2011, too.
Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab
After all, Samsung will have to do something with that expanded AMOLED production capacity in 2011...
Samsung announced that China's top three carriers (China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom) will soon offer the Galaxy S phone. Each will sell its own variant (different networks, and the China Mobile version will offer CMMB mobile TV support).
Samsung Galaxy S
The Galaxy S offers a large 4" Super-AMOLED display, 1Ghz processor and 720p HD video recording.
There are reports that HTC is planning to launch a new Windows Phone 7 phone next week (in Australia, for some reason). The HD3 will have a 4.5" AMOLED display (1200x800). It will also feature a 1.5Ghz dual-core CPU, 1GB of ram, 32GB of flash memory, Wi-Fi and 4G network support.
The AMOLED display sounds too good (and too big) to be true, especially since HTC has already switched to S-LCDs in several phones. On the other hand, we do know that Microsoft expects most WP7 devices to use OLED displays. We'll have to wait till September 15th to learn if this is for real.
Sony is showing a new Walkman, the NWZ-S754. Engadget says that the contrast looks so good that it could be an OLED. It looks very much like the NW-A840 which do have a 2.8" OLED (Sony released quite a few OLED walkmans in the past few years).
Beside the beautiful display, the NWZ-S765 has 8GB memory (at least in the model they're showing at the IFA show). It comes in black or silver.
