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LG launches the 55EA9800 curved OLED TV in Korea for $13,500
Apr 29th
LG Electronics announced today that it is now accepting pre-orders for the world’s first curved OLED TV , the 55EA9800 , in Korea. This premium TV costs KW 15 million (about $13,500) and LG will start shipping it in May. They will also bring it to other markets soon. The 55EA9800 was unveiled in CES 2013 , but we didn’t think LG will actually launch it as a commercial product any time soon (even though an LG official did suggest so only a couple of weeks ago ). It’s still not clear whether people will actually want such a design – which perhaps enables a cinema-like experience, but probably limits the viewing area and number of people watching. LG’s EA9800 features an Oxide-TFT WRGB Full-HD OLED panel (like LG’s 55EM9700 OLED TV). The TV features “infinite” contrast ratio, passive 3D, Smart Touch Controls and a “paper-slim” design (it’s only 4.3 mm thick and weighs just 17Kg). It is made from Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (CFRP). Source: LGE LG Flexible OLED OLED TV
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Diamond Pixel: the unique GS4 sub pixel arrangement
Apr 28th
When Samsung launched the GS4 , they said the Super AMOLED display uses PenTile . Back in January, it was reported that Samsung will adopt a new subpixel scheme that uses diamond sub-pixels, but up until now we didn’t hear anything official from Samsung. Today the company finally did acknowledge the new design, and published two closeup photos of the GS4 display. Diamond Pixel, as Samsung’s calls their new design, is a PenTile subpixel scheme, in which there are twice as many green subpixels as there are blue and red ones. The green subpixels are oval and small while the red and blue ones are diamond-shaped and larger (the blue subpixel is slightly larger than the red one). This is because green is the most efficient (and long lasting) OLED emitter while the blue has the shortest lifetime. According to Samsung, the diamond shapes were chosen to maximize the sub-pixel packing and achieve the highest possible PPI (the GS4′s OLED has 441 PPI). The greens are oval because they are squeezed between the larger red and blue ones. In any case, reviews of this display has been terrific , so this design seems to be a very good one
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Acuity Brands unveils three new OLED lumiaire designs
Apr 28th
Acuity Brands unveiled three new OLED luminaires concepts at Lightfair 2013 last week. The company says that the new concept designs “demonstrate new dimensions in human connectivity, made possible through interactions with the pleasing, fluid lighting expressions only the OLED source can achieve”. While these are just concepts, the company does plan to launch them as commercial products and will announce this later this year. As far as we know, Acuity Brands uses LG Chem made panels. The first concept is called Modelo and it uses square and rectangular panels to create personalized ceiling and wall luminaires. Configurations can include straight, curved, round, oval and square patterns. The second concept is called OLED Marker. These simpler luminaires have a unique slim appearance and can be combined with various faceplate shapes and panel finishes. The Marker is available with white or amber OLED panels and is a low-power, low-ambient lighting system
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Will Google and Samsung partner on
Apr 28th
Google’s CEO Larry Page visited Samsung’s OLED facilities, and apparently Page is “interested in Samsung’s OLED business”. According to some reports, the two companies may discuss a partnership on OLED TV panels, perhaps akin to Google’s collaboration with LG on Google TV. Or it might be that Google are interested in introducing their own branded TV set, but I don’t think it’s likely they’ll go for highly expensive OLED panels yet. Samsung is already providing OLED panels to several Android smartphones, including ones made by Google’s Motorola Mobility . Some reports suggest that Motorola’s upcoming device, code named Google X, will sport an unbreakable OLED display . Google themselves has filed for several patents involving OLED technology (or actually software tailored for OLED panels). Source: Slashgear Google Samsung OLED TV
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Hands on with 4D Systems 2" transparent PMOLED panel
Apr 28th
4D Systems (an Australian R&D company that supplies OLED displays) recently started to ship their first transparent OLED display, the uTOLED-20. Here’s my hands-on review of this great little OLED panel. About the uTOLED-20 The uTOLED-20 is a 2″ 128×160, 65K color “low-cost” transparent PMOLED graphic display. It’s powered by 4D-Labs’ Goldelox processor that supports the high level 4D graphics language (more on this belowW). The module includes 2 GPIO ports, 10K of flash memory and a micro-SD slot so you can store media (up to 2Gb). 4DS is not an OLED producer, and I’m not sure who actually makes the panel itself. We know of two companies that offer transparent PMOLEDs ( Futaba and NeoView-Kolon ) but as far as I know neither of these companies offer a 2″ panel – so, like I said, I do now know who’s the actual producer. 4DS are now offering the uTOLED-20 in their online store for $179 . I’m sure that they will offer a nice discount on volume purchases
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Samsung aims to sell 100 million GS4, orders so far has been "explosive"
Apr 25th
Samsung says that orders for the Galaxy S4 so far has been “explosive”. In fact the company didn’t anticipate such strong orders and cannot meet demand (they have a shortage of memory chips, apparently). Samsung have high hopes for the S4, and they hope to sell over 100 million units – that’s double compared to the S3 (which sold 50 million units so far). In fact all the phones in the Galaxy S series together just recently crossed the 100 million units mark. In January 2013 Samsung announced that the GS2 sold 40 million units, the GS3 sold 30 million and GS1 sold almost 30 million. The GS4 features a 4.99″ Full-HD (1920×1280, 441 PPI) Super AMOLED display, an Octacore 1.6Ghz Exynos CPU (some models use a Quadcore 1.9Ghaz Qualcomm CPU), 2GB of memory, 13 mp camera and a 2,600mAh battery – all this while being a smaller and lighter than the GS3 . The GS4 includes a lot of new software features and special UI controls, include the Adapt Display which allows extensive display calibration adjustments . Source: Korea Times Samsung Market reports Mobile phones Super AMOLED
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DisplayMate: the GS4 display is very impressive, OLEDs finally challenge the best LCD displays
Apr 25th
DisplayMate, the experts on display optimization, testing and evaluation, posted a new article comparing the GS4 display (4.99″ Full-HD, 441 PPI) to the iPhone 5′s LCD and the GS3 . The GS4′s Super AMOLED is a “very impressive display”, and DisplayMate says that OLEDs have now reached the stage when they challenge the best LCD displays. There are advantages and disadvantages to both technologies, but we have to keep in mind that OLEDs are advancing at a much more rapid rate compared to LCDs which is now a mature technology. Samsung Galaxy S4 Compared to the S3, the S4 is brighter by 25% (and when sing Automatic Brightness, it’s 68% brighter as this setting allows the brightness to reach a high level unreachable in manual brightness mode), it’s 20% more power efficient (due to the green PHOLED materials ) and it’s got 44% more pixels per inch (and more than double the total number of pixels). Apple iPhone 5 Compared to the iPhone 5, the S4 display is less bright. The iPhone’s LCD has a bit better color calibration, although the white is more accurate on the S4. Of course the S4 display is much larger and have a higher resolution. The blacks are blacker on the S4 and the screen is more uniform.
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Blackbody Bonzai
Apr 25th
The Bonzai lamp uses 12 circular OLED lighting panels. The lamp was designed by Cibicworkshop. The panels (made by Blackbody ) are 5.8 cm in diameter and offer a color temperature of 3000K, efficiency of 25 lm/W and 2000 cd/m 2 brightness. The lamp structure is made from glass and is dimmable. The Bonzai lamp is now available from Blackbody for 700€. OLED type: 12 circular OLED panels (5.8 cm diameter) OLED lamps
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Sony shows how their professional OLED monitors compare to LCD ones
Apr 25th
A couple of weeks ago Sony updated their TRIMASTER EL professional OLED monitors with the new “A” Series” . These new monitors sport an improved OLED panel that has a redesigned pixel construction which enabled a major improvement in viewing angles and a greatly reduced color shift. Today Sony released a new short video ad showing how their professional OLED monitors compare to LCD ones: Sony OLED technology enables accurate color reproduction, precision imaging and quality picture consistency. Sony Competing technologies OLED monitor Videos OLED display videos
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LG aims to launch a flexible-OLED powered handset in Q4 2013
Apr 25th
Yoon Bu-hyun, LG Electronics’s mobile business VP said that LG plans to launch a mobile phone that has an unbreakable flexible OLED display in Q4 2013. LG Display started working on these flexible OLEDs in late 2011 and they consider those displays to have a real value for the mobile solution (as opposed to glass based OLEDs which LG considers inferior to LCDs for mobile applications). LG/UDC flexible OLED panel prototype The last time we heard from LG Display regarding their flexible OLED was in January 2013. Back then the company said it was on track to start mass production of plastic based flexible OLEDs in H2 2013. The capacity will be “very limited” and they expect to be able to support just one or two customers. LG Display’s flexible OLEDs will use polyimide coated substrate and direct-emission RGB sub-pixels (as opposed to LG’s OLED TV which use white OLEDs with color filters ). Just a few days ago we reported that the OLED Association says that Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 3 will use a YOUM display (a plastic-based unbreakable flexible OLED). I’m guessing LG does not want to be left behind, so it may be that they will launch a very low-volume phone just so they won’t be perceived as being less technology advanced than Samsung on flexible OLEDs.
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