OLED devices - Page 27

There are rumors that Motorola are going to announce 2 new Android phones at CES, one for AT&T and one for the Verizon, both with OLED displays

The AT&T phone will have a physical keyboard and will run the Google experiences software
environment, rather than the company’s proprietary MotoBlur software. The Verizon phone will not have a keyboard.

If this is true, these will be Motorola's first AMOLED phones.

We've got some more details on the upcoming, non-official-yet Google phone. It'll be called Nexus One, and will have a 3.7" WVGA touch AMOLED. It will be offered by 'invitation' only at first, but Google may team up with a carrier later one, we do not know yet.

Google Nexus One

Update: Currently (2/1/2010) the Moment is the #1 best selling smartphone!

The Samsung Moment is a very popular phone - at least over at Amazon.com, where it's currently the #4 best selling smartphone. It's more popular than the Palm Pre (also on Spring, and costs the same, $79.99). The most popular smartphones, by the way, are two BlackBerrys (Bold 9700 and Curve 8900), and Motorola's Droid. The Moment has a 3.2" touch OLED, full QWERTY slider, 3.2mp camera, microSDHC slot, Wi-Fi and GPS. It runs Google's Android OS (on a 800Mhz processor).

Another OLED gadget that is popular is Nikon's S70. Despite getting rather bad reviews, it's number #13 and #14 in Amazon's best-selling point-and-shoot cameras. Different colored S70 are listed as different products, so totally it should rank even higher. The S70 has a 3.5" touch OLED. The S70 costs 260$.

Elan has announced its new g! home automation system. There ain't a lot of details, but they say it will use OLED displays. The system has a consistent interface across several devices, and also includes TV, PC and iPhone versions. It's not clear whether all hardware units will have OLED displays...

Elan g! series

Back in 2007, Elan has released their first OLED product, the Ole touchpad in-wall A/V controller. It had a 1" 65K PMOLED display.

UPDATE: This video has been removed from YouTube

Yesterday we posted a video comparing the Samsung Omnia II's OLED vs the Nokia N900's LCD (and the OLED is much better, of course). Now the same user has uploaded another video, showing how the displays behave in direct sunlight - and the OLED is much better. This is interesting, as usually people say that OLED are very bad in such conditions. A couple of months ago we posted a story on this - showing examples of OLEDs in sunlight that are completely non-readable. Barry Young from the OLED association told us that newer OLED displays will be much brighter - perhaps he was right.

Update: The rumors were true, on March 16 Cowon announced the J3 with a 3.3" touch AMOLED

There are rumors that Cowon are set to release a new player, the J3. It will come with 2/4/8GB, a DMB tuner and Wi-Fi. There aren't any more details yet, beside the AMOLED display.

UPDATE: This video has been removed from YouTube

Here's a nice video comparing Samsung's Omnia II AMOLED display (3.7", 480x800) to the Nokia N900's 3.5" LCD. The AMOLED is on the left, and you can see that it's brighter, and has much better colors and contrast.

Samsung has produced a nice short commercial for the Omnia II phone, in which they mention the AMOLED display (which is 3.7" 480x800):

There are reports that Google are planning to release a new phone soon. It will run Android OS 2.1, it will be very fast, thinner then the iPhone, with no keyboard and two microphones. The display will be a "super high-resolution OLED touchscreen. Google will only sell the phone unlocked.

Some Google employees around the world are already testing this new phone...

HTC's new lineup for 2010 has leaked online, and there are a couple of AMOLED phones in there. The Bravo has a 3.7" WVGA touch AMOLED display. It will be running the Android-OS on a 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU, and is capable of 720p HD video recording. The rumored release date is April 2010.

HTC Bravo

The second phone is the "Legend". It's also an Android phone, with a 600Mhz processor, a 3.2" AMOLED, set to be released in March 2010.