UPDATE: The contest is over and we've picked a lucky winner... who's enjoying his new OLED photo frame...

Would you like to win a Kodak OLED wireless photo frame (worth around 800$)? We'd love to give one for you... and we will give one of those uber-cool OLED gadgets to the winner of our contest!

The Kodak photo frame has a 7.6" AMOLED display, 800x480 resolution and a contrast ratio of 30,000:1 (made by CMEL). It has built-in Wi-Fi, 2GB of storage and accepts USB drives or memory cards. It's a great looking display - the best place to showcase your photos!

Scientists at the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory scientist have designed, synthesized and tested new blue OLED materials. They claim that these new materials have an improved efficiency - by at least 25 percent.

Blue OLED prototype

The new materials are phosphorescent OLEDs.

Yeah - you can now follow OLED-Info on twitter. So if you like twitter, and also OLEDs, this is for you.

http://twitter.com/oledinfo

Samsung has opened a new Mobile Movie store in the UK. They plan to offer over 1,000 movies - which you can either rent or buy. The movies will be downloaded to your mobile phone to watch. Currently the only phone that's supported is the Tocco Ultra (S8300 AMOLED phone) - with the 2.8" AMOLED.

I guess Samsung wants to both get the word out on their new AMOLED displays - "good enough to see movies in", and also get extra income from the movies. Operators will be happy to give 3 movies away for free with each new phone, I'm sure.

This is getting interesting. The Smarthouse web site (from Australia) says that a source at LG in Korea confirmed the existance of an OLED notebook and iPhone (and also computer monitors) from Apple. They say that Apple already got a working prototype of the notebook computer.

LG still has some issues with touch-sensitive OLEDs (fingermarks...) but are working to add another layer to fix this.

It's hard to believe that LG will actually release such information about a huge customer such as apple. We'll have to wait and see...

Dongbu said they developed a driver for AMOLED displays, supporting resolutions up to 1024x768. They will start shipping the drivers in a few months.

Dongbu also said that they are in advanced talks with Panasonic and NEC to supply the chips.

Korea's Modistech is working on OLED lighting. They say they will start to produce flexible OLED white-light panels by 2010, and these will be available by 2011. These might be used for backlighting LCDs in laptops.

UDC has announced today that CMEL has renewed their 'commercial supply' agreement. UDC are providing CMEL with materials to use in their AMOLED displays. The new agreement will run through 31th of December 2009.

CMEL 7.6 AMOLED

CMEL ae making AMOLED displays, and are currently shipping the largest display available (beside Sony's XEL-1 11" TV) - a 7.6" OLED panel, as used in Kodak's digital photo frame.