OLED Watch

OLEDs make it possible to create small (thin) displays, that are bright and power efficient. Such efficient small screens are perfect for small gadgets like wrist watches.

The first OLED watches

The first OLED watch we are aware of is the Citizen VIRT, released in June 2006 This watch had bluetooth connection, and was able to show caller ID. The displays is a small blue-colored OLED. Sony Ericsson also released a bluetooth caller-id phone in 2006.

A few month later, Anlong released a MP4 watch - this one had a 1.5" OLED display (260K color, 128x128), and one could watch MP4 movies or JPEG images on the small display.

OLED watches today

Today we have several OLED watches available. From the Epoq MP4 watch, with a 1.5" OLED and 4Gb of internal memory, to the diesel DZ7079 - a 'normal' phone which uses a small OLED 'strip' to show the time, instead of the normal LCD. 

The latest OLED watch is the EP2502 cellular phone watch. This one is actually a complete GSM mobile phone, with 512Mb memory and a 2Mp camera. The OLED is a 1.3" (128x160), 270k colors display.

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