Super AMOLED

Samsung's Super-AMOLED displays are AMOLED displays with an integrated touch function. Samsung has placed a touch-sensor (on-cell) over the display and made it evaporate. The thickness of the touch sensor is just 0.001mm (!) this allows the screen to provide better images and to have great visibility even in direct sunlight (Samsung says that they perform 20% better than regular touch AMOLED outdoors). Super-AMOLEDs also have better lifetime than regular AMOLED and are very responsive to touch - even better than the iPhone's display. Super-AMOLED have been announced in January 2010.

Super-AMOLED: the best mobile touch display

This display is indeed spectacular. People who've seen it say that it's bright and crisp has unbelievable colors, perform great under sunlight and is simply 'the best display found in any phone".

Here are a few photos showing the Wave next to a Nexus One and to a Nokia X6. The difference is showing, alright, click on the photos to see it better (the Wave phone is the top phone in both photos):

The s8500 wave

The first device to have a Super AMOLED is the upcoming s8500 Wave phone, with a 3.3" display. The phone is also the first one to run Samsung's Bada OS and have bluetooth 3.0. Other features include a 5Mp camera, 1Ghz processor, Wi-Fi, a-GPS, 2/8GB of internal memory, microSD slot and 720p video recording/encoding. 

Super AMOLED explained

Here's a nice video interview with a Samsung employee that explains why Super-AMOLEDs are the best display available today for mobile phones:

More videos

Here's a video comparing the Super-AMOLED to the iPhone's LCD. You can see that the AMOLED has better contrast (black is indeed black!) and has a much better viewing angle:

Here you can see how the Super-AMOLED behaves in direct sun: it's still highly visible!