The Samsung Moment will soon get an upgrade to its Android OS (v2.1 up from v1.5). The Moment has a 3.2" touch OLED, full QWERTY slider, 800Mhz processor, 3.2mp camera, microSDHC slot, Wi-Fi and GPS. It is very popular, and was the #1 best selling smartphone on Amazon for a while (it is now down to #5). It's good to see Samsung issue this update.
HTC just launched two new AMOLED phones at CES. The first is the Desire (which was leaked a while back as the Bravo), with a 3.7" 854x480 touch AMOLED. This has the same hardware as the Google Nexus One (1Ghz CPU, 720p HD video recording, Wi-Fi, GPS and a 5mp camera. It runs the Android 2.1 OS).
HTC Desire
The second phone is the Legend, also leaked a while back. This one has a hVGA 3.2" AMOLED, 600Mhz processor, Wi-Fi and a digital compass. It also runs Android 2.1.
Here's a nice video with a Samsung employee explaining all about Super AMOLEDs:
Mobile-Review.com has posted a preview of the new Samsung Wave with the Super-AMOLED. And they absolutely love the display. It's great under sunlight, it is bright with unbelievable colors, it's got better lifetime (Samsung say that this is because there are less 'layers of air'). And the touch is very responsive - even better than the iPhone's display.
They continue to say that the screen is marvelous, extremely bright and crisp. It is the best they have seen in any portable device: "After the S8500, the displays found in the Nexus and other phones seem bleak and lifeless". They posted a few of 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 Super-AMOLED is on the top on both photos):
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Sony says that they have stopped production of the XEL-1 OLED TV in Japan, and will stop selling it when they run out of inventory. They will continue to sell and produce the OLED TV for the US, EU and other markets though (which is a bit confusing, because they say they stopped producing it). Sony will also continue their OLED R&D. Still no news on any upcoming larger OLED TVs...
Sony XEL-1 OLED TVThe Samsung Wave with its Super AMOLED display compared to an iPhone:
We've got the first video showing how the new Samsung Wave phone (with the Super-AMOLED display) behaves outdoors. It seems that the visibility is great... We're still waiting for a video that shows it besides another phone outside so that we can get a good comparison.
Talking about the Wave phone, here's a nice video of it alongside an iPhone. The viewing angle is vastly better...
A few weeks ago we reported that Lumiotec will start selling OLED Lighting panel dev kits, and today they have indeed opened their online store. The store only accepts Japanese orders currently.
The development kits (pictured above) include one 145mm x 145mm OLED panel, a controller and an AC adapter. They cost ¥84,000 each (about $930) a little higher than what they said a couple of weeks ago.
The panel is 4.1mm thick (the thickest part is 4.8mm). The light emitting area is 125mm x 125mm. It weights 195g, the average color rendering index is Ra80, and the maximum brightness is 4,000 cd / m2. The lifetime is quoted at 30,000 hours (at 1,000 cd / m2 brightness level)
Samsung has officially announced the s8500 Wave phone: with a 3.3" super AMOLED display and running the new Bada OS. The phone also has bluetooth 3.0 (another world's first). Interestingly, a few weeks ago we reported that Samsung are planning a Bluetooth 3.0 phone, which will have 'anti-reflective' and suitable for outdoor use'. So now we know that they have described the Super-AMOLED display.
Samsung Wave s8500 
There are rumors that Nokia is preparing a new handset, called the N87 Vasco, which will have a 3.7" touch AMOLED. It will also have a 12mp camera (Carl Zeiss optics & Xenon flash, with infra-night vision), Wi-Fi, GPS, FM radio & transmitter, ARM Cotex 8 CPU (800Mhz), 16/32Gb of internal memory.
