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Sony official: we’ll release OLED TVs in 2013
Mar 5th
Sony’s Deputy President of home entertainment products, Noriaki Negishi, says that Sony plans to aggressively promote its own technology by 2013, including OLED televisions . Last month Sony’s new CEO said that the company plans massive investments towards OLED TVs , so this makes sense, although it’ll be interested to hear how the company plans to come out with a product so soon. Sony XEL-1 Some reports suggest that Sony is actually considering buying OLED panels from LG Display . Perhaps they only plan to do so until their own manufacturing comes on line. read more
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More details and a video of Audi’s concept OLED designs
Mar 4th
A couple of days ago we reported that Audio is experimenting with OLED technologies – with a concept car that has hundreds of Philips-made triangular OLED panels on the car’s body. Today we present a video and more details about Audi’s OLED designs: Audi actually has 3 OLED based designs. The first is rather simple – rear lights that are made from four small red OLED panels, and a flashing turn indicator made from 8 panels. Audi actually has a roadmap for introducing OLEDs. They say that OLEDs will be used as rear lights in the “relatively near future”. It will take a few more years for OLEDs to be used in brake lights as these need to be about five times brighter than rear lights. read more
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More details and a video of Audi’s concept OLED designs
Germany launches an OLED lighting efficiency research project
Mar 1st
Germany launched a new research project called HARPOON that aims to improve OLED lighting’s efficiency in a cost effective way. We don’t have a lot of details about this project yet, but it seems that it will involve software simulation and optimizations of vacuum related production processes. The project’s coordinated is Philips, and it is partly funded by the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia. First results will be published in 2014.
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Verizon to launch the Galaxy Tab 7.7 next week
Feb 28th
Verizon announced that it’s going to launch the Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE on March 1st – for $499.99 with a contract. Amazon.com offers the tablet unlocked for $650 , but without LTE (only 3G/Wi-Fi). The Galaxy Tab 7.7″ got some great reviews – Engadget says it’s the best 7″ tablet and praises the “stunning and breathtaking” Super AMOLED Plus display. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 is the world’s first tablet with an OLED display, a 7.7″ Super AMOLED Plus panel, offering 1280×800 resolution. Other specs include Android v3.2, Dual-core 1.4 Ghz processor, HSPA+ radio (LTE in some models), 16GB to 64GB internal storage and a microSD slot, Wi-Fi, GPS and two cameras (3MP and 2MP).
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ASUS Padfone
Feb 28th
The ASUS Padfone is an Android (v4, ICS) mobile phone that has an external tablet docking station accessory. The phone itself has a 4.3″ qHD (800×600) Super AMOLED display, a dual-core CPU, 8mp camera and 64GB of internal memory and a microSD slot. The docking station has a 10″ display (LCD, unfortunately) and another battery. There’s also an optional keyboard and a stylus for the tablet – which also includes a Bluetooth headset – so you can talk using just the stylus… ASUS hopes to release the Padfone in April 2012. OLED type: 4.3″ qHD Super AMOLED
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BASF and Philips transparent OLED/OPV on video
Feb 27th
Last month BASF and Philips announced that they have co-developed the transparent OLEDs and OPVs used in Daimler’s Smart Forvision concept EV . Today BASF released a nice short video introducing that technology: In the video BASF’s Dr. Felix Gorth says that they are currently focused on developing a more efficient blue emitter.
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A new EU project aims to speed up the commercialisation and adoption of organic and large area electronics
Feb 24th
There’s a new European collaboration project that aims to help the organic and large area electronics industry. The COLAE (Commercializing Organic and Large Area Electronics) project is a pan-European initiative with 18 partners from 12 countries. The project partners will jointly develop technology demonstrators and provide services such as training events, access to pilot lines and more. Several of these partners have a range of OLED (both lighting and displays) pilot facilities that can now be accessed by European companies for free. CPI Printed Electronics center Partners include the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (which is the projcet coordinator), the Fraunhofer Institute , CSEM and UK’s CPI center which will provide access for its OLED lighting pilot line facilities.
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A new EU project aims to speed up the commercialisation and adoption of organic and large area electronics
Samsung planning more OLED TVs in the future
Feb 17th
Samsung obviously has big plans for OLED TVs – and in fact it seems that the company sees OLEDs replacing LCDs in the (near?) future . Rober Kind, head of consumer electronics at Samsung, says that 55″ is the largest size panel they can currently make, and they wanted to first make the largest OLED they can. But Samsung’s Super OLED TV range will grow – and will include new models in the future. He also agrees that one of the problems with OLED TVs is that they are so thin that you can’t put good speakers on the TV. He says Samsung believes that in such cases it’s best to use external speakers… read more
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Samsung 55" Super OLED TV to come to the UK "in the spring"
Feb 14th
CNet reports that Samsung told them that they can expect the 55″ Super OLED TV (The KN55ES9000 ) to be launched in the UK around the Spring of 2012. That means around March or April 2012, which is actually good news (at CES Samsung said that the TV will launch in Q2 or Q2 2012 ). We’ll probably have to wait for the actual launch to hear the price in the UK. In any case, Samsung’s TV has a 55″ Direct Emission OLED panel that supports active-shutter 3D and Samsung’s Smart TV and Smart-Interaction technologies. It includes a camera can can be controlled via a remote control, voice control, motion control and face recognition. read more
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Samsung 55" Super OLED TV to come to the UK "in the spring"
Lux compares display developers for technical value and business execution
Feb 7th
Lux Research posted an interesting grid that shows how different display developers rate on technical value and business execution. It includes mature technologies (such as OLED and e-paper ) and emerging technologies such as electrochromic and electrofluidic displays. Lux says that OLED materials and equipment developers have a clear head start over other technologies, with notable players such as UDC , CDT , Novaled and Kateeva . The company that stands out in both technical value and business execution is E Ink – with high score in technology and IP and strong partnerships and management team. E Ink is the only company that scores a “strong positive” – with their nearly 100% market share of the electrophoretic market – which is used in products such as Amazon’s Kindle and B&N Nook e-readers. read more
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Lux compares display developers for technical value and business execution