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Samsung’s Galaxy-Beam projector phone shown at the IFA 2010
Sep 5th
Remember Samsung’s Galaxy Beam ? Samsung is showing this projector-phone (launched in July in Singapore) at the IFA 2010 show. Hopefully this means that a European release will be announced soon… The Galaxy Beam has a 3.7″ Super-AMOLED , WVGA DLP pico-projector , Android v2.1, Wi-Fi, 8mp camera, A-GPS, FM radio and HD video recording.
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Samsung’s Galaxy-Beam projector phone shown at the IFA 2010
NKK doubles the lifetime and increase the efficiency of their OLED switch
Sep 3rd
Remember NKK’s programmable OLED pushbutton switch ? Introducing in July 2008, it includes a 65K color OLED module capable of full-motion video. Today NKK announced that they have released a new version that doubles the lifetime of the OLED display (to 30,000 hours) and reduced the power consumption by 30%. Here’s NKK’s original funny ad for the OLED switch:
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Blackbody to show new OLED lamps designs
Aug 31st
Blackbody will show new OLED lamp designs at the NOW! Maison & Objet Fair (September 3rd to 7th, 2010). All of the new lamps were designed by C+B Lefebvre. Those lamps are available to buy, but probably cost quite a bit . Here are my two favorites: The first lamp (shown above) is called 6″O” with an active area of 540cm2, color temperature of 3200 K°, 26W power consumption and it weights 5.5Kg : “Providing both linear and surface illumination, this light bridge creates an enlightened area free of shadows and glare. This virtually tamed lighting offers both direct illumination whilst simultaneously bathing the surrounding area in a halo of soft light. read more
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Samsung to officially announce the Galaxy Tab on September 2nd
Aug 24th
Samsung is finally announcing the Galaxy Tab – they have released a short video showing the device, saying it’ll be revealed on September 2nd. We know it runs Android 2.2, supports flash, video calling, plays HD movies and has a GPS. It’s also an e-reader . The display is 7″, but we don’t know whether it’s an LCD or a Super-AMOLED display.
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AT&T’s Samsung Captivate (Galaxy-S) now available for only $49.99!
Aug 11th
Amazon are now selling the Samsung Captivate (Galaxy-S) for only $49.99 , with a new service plan. It is now AT&T’s best selling phone in Amazon !. The Galaxy-S, Samsung’s latest Android phone, has a 1 Ghz processor and a large 4″ Super-AMOLED display. Samsung Galaxy S You can also buy the Galaxy S unlocked for $599 .
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AT&T’s Samsung Captivate (Galaxy-S) now available for only $49.99!
4D Systems releases the Picaso-GFX2 graphics chip, supporting OLEDs and LCDs
Jul 8th
4D Systems (one of OLED-Info’s sponsors) announced a new graphics chip, the Picaso-GFX2. The chip is designed to work with all popular OLED and LCD panels in the market. 4DS says the new chip sports powerful graphic, text, image, animation and sound generation capabilities. It can be used stand-alone as an embedded graphics processor or as a co-processor to host a micro-controller through its hardware serial interface. 4D says it’s plug and play and will work with most 16-bit 80 series color LCD and OLED displays. read more
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Report: AMOLED sales in 1Q 2010 dropped 11% from last quater
Jul 2nd
UBi Sanup Research has posted their new OLED quarterly report for 1Q 2010. They say that AMOLED sales reached $183 million – a 11% drop compared to last quarter. Total OLED sales (PMOLED+AMOLED) reached $237 million – a decrease of %14 from last quarter. AMOLED account to 77% of total OLED sales. OLED shipments were 9.1 million units from Korea, 7.4m units Taiwan and 5.8m from Japan. UBi says that OLED shipments is expected to grow due to increased PMOLED and AMOLED supply. read more
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Tuning Android color-filters used to improve the OLED display efficiency
Jul 2nd
A google employee (Jeff Sharkey) has posted an interesting post – testing how using different color filters in Android (on the Google Nexus One ) to test the OLED’s battery life. He use SurfaceFlinger (Android’s low-level window composer) and created several options: from red-only to full-color. Using just red halves the power consumption, and using red+green results in 25% better consumption. Jeff shares his patch online , so you can download and see for yourself. The phone remains usable, so this is an interesting way to save power… Jeff also posted a short video showing how the phone behaves using the different filters:
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Samsung slashes $50 off their flagship TL500 AMOLED compact camera
Jun 20th
Samsung has reduced the price of the TL500 compact camera by $50 (now it costs $399). The TL500 is Samsung’s flagship compact camera that’s very fast, has an ultra-wide and bright F/1.8 lens (3x zoom), 10mp and a large 3″ swiveling AMOLED . The TL500 costs $399 , you can buy it over at Amazon.com .
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Build your own linux tablet with a 4.4" OLED display
Jun 16th
Liquidware (an open-source electronics firm) has released a kit that can be used to make a linux tablet with a 4.4″ (480×272) OLED touch display. The kit includes a BeagelBoard Rev C4 board (with a 720Mhz ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP cCPU, 20mm speaker, SD slot (it comes with a 4GB card), Wi-Fi, mini USB port and a battery. So you won’t get a real tablet – it’s very thick, and not very pretty – but you can play videos and access the web. And it costs just $393. Here’s a short video on the kit: read more
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