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Slashgear has reviewed the Vuzix iWear AV230XL OLED headset. The OLED is a 320x240 microdisplay, showing the equivalent of 44" TV.

Vuzix AV230XL

The reviewer is disaapointed in the low resolution, but says that OLED quality is good, and so is the battery life.

Read the complete review here

iRiver released some more information about their P20 player. The display is a 4.1" AMOLED (480x272). The player includes 80GB of memory (there is also a 120GB version coming later), DMB, FM radio, voice recording and office-documents viewer.

iRiver P20

The P20 will be released in Japan by the end of the month, and will sell for 435$. 

Amazon has officially announced the Kindle 2.0 reader. The display is a 6" diagonal E-Ink electronic paper display, 600 x 800 pixel resolution at 167 ppi, 16-level gray scale.

The whole device weights just 290g (less than a normal paperback, they say), and it's extremly thin - just over 0.3-inch. More info at amazon.com, of course.

It seems like AMOLED phones are hardly news, and I'll soon stop covering these... but in the meantime, it's great to see more mid-ranged phones using OLED displays. Reportedly the candybar S7220 has a 2.4" AMOLED, and a 5Mp camera. The phone is not a touchscreen, unlike the other new Samsung phones.

Samsung S7220

The governments of Hong Hong and neighboring Shenzhen, China will fund R&D projects, with a 4.7M$ fund.

One of the areas in which they are interested in is "Development of high-performance silicon driver intellectual properties for display panel (TFT-LCD and OLED) applications."

QD Vision, developer of nanotechnology-based solutions for displays and lighting, announced it has achieved significant improvements in brightness, efficiency and lifetime thresholds for its Quantum Light product platform.

Their technology is not ready for commercial use yet, but they are apparently on the way.

So now we hear of a third Samsung AMOLED phone to be announced in the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2009. If this is true, then it will be an exciting event for OLEDs with 3 new Samsung phones, and probably more from other companies as well.

Samsung ACME i8910

We do not have any details about the display, other than that it's a touchscreen AMOLED. The i8910 runs Symbian S60v5, supports DivX, has a 8mp camera, HDMI, Wi-Fi and can record HD video,

UPDATE: The phone is actually called S8300 Ultra Touch, and it is officially announced. Oh, and there's a video review, too.

We have found a better video (here's the other one) of Sony's flexible OLED from CES 2009, together with Sony's CEO speech about it. The OLED panel features 160x120 resolution, is only 0.2 mm thick and weights only 1.5 grams.