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Samsung updates on AMOLED displays
Sep 7th
Samsung (or actually Lee Woo-Jong, SMD’s marketing VP) is giving us some interesting updates on their AMOLED displays and production plants. So first of all, they expect the new 5.5-Gen plant to start mass producing in July 2011. The new plant will increase Samsung’s AMOLED capacity ten-fold: from 3 million displays a month to 30 million (assuming all displays made in the new plant will be around 3″). Samsung also says that they now expect AMOLED screens shipments to reach 700 million by 2015 ( in May, they said it’ll be 600 ). read more
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LG to release the 31" 3D OLED TV in 2011
Sep 3rd
LG is showing a new 31″ OLED TV prototype. It’s just 0.29cm thick, supports active-shutter 3D and has a 600Hz refresh rate. LG says they’ll release this TV as a product in 2011. Here’s a short video showing the new TV:
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Shanghai Tianma to build a 4.5-Gen AMOLED pilot production line in a $72 million investment
Aug 26th
Shanghai Tianma has decided to build a pilot AMOLED production line (4.5-Gen) in a $72 million investment (the company will apply for a $40 million government funding). The pilot line will be placed within Tianma’s existing 4.5-Gen LCD production line, and will output around 1000 glass substrates monthly. This will probably be China’s second AMOLED pilot line, as Visionox’s one is already online today . Via OLEDW
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Shanghai Tianma to build a 4.5-Gen AMOLED pilot production line in a $72 million investment
AMOLED android handsets has the poorest battery life?
Aug 26th
Someone did a battery-life comparison of several android handsets, and according to that test, handsets with AMOLED has the poorest battery life. LCD handsets are better (the Galaxy S, with its large Super-AMOLED display is in the middle). Of course the AMOLED display is not the only difference between those handsets. AMOLED should theoretically offer lower power consumption, but this is not the first time we hear that newer LCDs are actually better. For example, when HTC replaced AMOLEDs with LCDs in the Desire phones (and others), they said that the battery life is better with LCDs. The good news is that Samsung plans to soon double the efficiency of their AMOLED displays . AMOLEDs are at an early stage soon, so we can expect fast advances in all aspects, including efficiency. read more
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Samsung’s OLED R&D VP: OLED TVs coming ‘soon’
Aug 22nd
bNetTV has posted a short interview with Brian Berkeley, Samsung’s OLED R&D VP. He’s not willing to actually say when OLED TVs should arrive, but he did say they are ‘coming soon’, and that Samsung “have their eyes set on the possibility of OLED TVs”. Brian also says that OLEDs will be especially suited for 3D TVs – we’ve heard that before, of course, from Samsung and from Sony as well. A couple of months ago, Brian said that ‘OLED TVs are viable’ . It’s good to hear that he sees them coming soon now!
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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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Universal Display about the AMOLED shortage
Aug 10th
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Universal Display says in an report:”We are pleased to report a significant improvement in our second quarter 2010 financial performance,”Revenues rose significantly and our operating loss was reduced by two-thirds compared to the second quarter of last year. As a result of the ever-widening utilization of our UniversalPHOLED(TM) technology and materials, both our commercial and developmental revenues increased and operating results improved. read more
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NanoMarkets releases new OLED Lighting report, forecasts $6 billion in revenue by 2015
Aug 6th
NanoMarkets released a new report (“ OLED Lighting, An Eight-Year Market Forecast (2010) ” in which they say that OLED lighting will generate $6 billion in revenue by 2015. OLED lighting will grow quickly because of the need for cost efficient lighting in a number of different applications, including general illumination, architectural lighting, backlighting, vehicular lighting and signage. Novaled transparent OLED lighting panel Most firms today focus on general illumination and/or architectural lighting sectors. These two markets will generate around $4 billion in 2015. Vehicular lighting is expected to bring over $750 million. Nanomarkets say that if OLED will provide an alternative backlighting technology for LCDs, these alone could generate further $1.4 billion by 2015. read more
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Pantech to stop using AMOLEDs until suppy issues are fixed
Aug 3rd
Pantech is Korea’s third handset makers, and now they say that they will not use AMOLED displays in their new smartphones because of supply problems. They are selling two AMOLED smartphones now (one of which is the IM-A600S which has a 3.7″ display). Pantech IM-A600S Sirius According to Pantech, Samsung Mobile Display will not be able to supply enough AMOLEDs even for Samsung Electronics which is pushing AMOLED phones very aggressively (especially the Galaxy S phone). via the Korea Herald
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OSRAM’s ORBEOS OLED panel wins the Electron d’Or award for product of the year
Jul 30th
OSRAM’s ORBEOS white OLED panel has won the Electron d’Or award for product of the year in the Opto/Display category. ElectroniqueS is France’s leading professional journal for the electronics industry and has already awarded the Electron d’Or prize 13 times. OSRAM has released the ORBEOS in November 2009 , and were kind enough to send us a sample for a hands-on review .
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