OLED laptop - Page 18

Remember Samsung 14" transparent OLED laptop? PlusPlasticElectronics says that Samsung actually plans to release this laptop as a real product within 12 months. They also reveal that the IceTouch MP3 player will sell for around $330 and will be released in the US in the first half of 2010.

Samsung 14-inch transparent OLED laptop

Samsung wants to dominate the transparent display market, and plans to introduce a range of new products with such displays within the next year. They will even consider products not normally produced at Samsung - such as a transparent automobile navigation system that can be placed on a windscreen. Now how about a transparent OLED TV?

Dell is showing a nice new OLED laptop prototype - a Studio XPS 16 with a 2mm thick OLED display. Dell says that comparing to the LCD display, the OLED is faster and uses less power. It also has a higher contrast ratio of 10,000:1.

Dell says that this is just concept, they didn't mention how close their are to actually releasing an OLED laptop. Dell's CEO has hinted at OLED laptops back in 2008. It's likely that Samsung produced the OLED display prototype for Dell.

Samsung are showing a laptop that uses a 14" transparent OLED display:

The OLED is up to 40% transparent. I'm not sure if it's useful, but it sure is amazing. In any case, Samsung did not mention any plans to make this into a real product... Here's a short video:

Samsung Mobile Display will show three new OLED displays today:

• 14" qFHD (960x540) 3D AMOLED prototype. This display has a contrast of 100,000:1, color gamut of over 100% NTSC and is only 1.6mm. OLEDs are great as 3D Displays - the image switching is very fast, and there's no optical crosstalk between the two 3D images, according to Samsung.
• 14" qFHD (960x540) transparent OLED prototype. The transparency is 40% when the display is off. Samsung say that this display will "soon be used to display actual transparent products" in Note PCs (although it's not clear why you'd want a transparent display for your laptop).
• 2" OLED operated by RF power (for ID cards and passports). It seems to be the same display shown in June.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will begin in 3 weeks or so (7th of January). Previous CES have brought us a lot of exciting OLED announcements. I'm sure that this year will not be any different.

OLED TVs / Laptops

The biggest question mark is Sony. Will they announce their 2nd generation OLED TV? And if so, will it be 21" or 27"? There are reports that Sony will call their new OLED TVs XDL-ZX, and it will actually be a series of TVs (maybe both 21" and 27"). The price will be high, that's for sure.

Sony 27-inch OLED prototype (2008)

We're sure that LG will show their 15" OLED TV, which is already on sale in Korea. We might hear when this TV will ship in other countries. And perhaps LG will also show larger TV prototypes.

Samsung will surely show OLED TV prototypes. We hope that they'll also finally announce a large OLED product - perhaps a 14.1" monitor or laptop display. They have promised us an OLED laptop in Q3 2010, and have shown prototypes of small netbooks (7.6") and larger laptops (14.1") with OLEDs. It's likely that Samsung will use CES to unveil their OLED laptop...

Samsung 7-inch OLED laptop prototype

Other companies that might show new OLED TVs include CMEL (with their new MEM technology), Panasonic and perhaps TMDisplay as well.

Samsung is showing a couple of new OLED laptop prototypes. The first is a 7" OLED WSVGA (1024x600) with a brightness of 300cd/m2 and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.

Samsung 7-inch OLED laptop prototype

The second prototype is a hybrid laptop-desktop system, with a 14" WXGA (1366x768) OLED. It also features 300cd/m² and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. The monitor's width is 2.7 mm.

Samsung 14-inch OLED hybrid prototype

Here's a short video of the 7" laptop:

A few weeks ago Intel showed a laptop concept with 3 OLED displays (each about 3" in size). Now we found a video of this nice concept:

Intel is showing a nice new laptop concept, which actually includes 4 displays. Above the keyboard, there are 3 touch AMOLED displays. Each display is about 3" in size. This is a neat design:

The idea is to have seamless interaction between the main display and the smaller OLEDs - like the ability to move files between them, to zoom, scroll or pan content, etc.

Kyu Uhm, Head of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Samsung's Computing Division, said that the company would look to release an OLED laptop towards the end of 2010 - probably in Q3.

Samsung SDI 12.1 inch laptop prototype

"Samsung is the largest OLED screen manufacturer. And as soon as it's available commercially for laptops we will adopt it" he said.

According to Samsung, Gartner believes that OLED notebook will become the norm over the next 5 years.

David Critchley, a marketing manager for Lenovo, says that Lenovo will consider releasing a slim model of its T500 with 15" OLED screen "if demand is there". Lenovo are also considering multi-touch screens.

It's not a huge commitment by Lenovo (I'm sure most laptop makers will be happy to have an OLED "if they see demand") - but it's good to see that Lenovo is aware of OLEDs. I'm also guessing that LG are starting to talk to laptop makers about their upcoming 15" OLED TV panels, that can also be used in laptops.