Update: The video has been removed

Here's a beautiful video made by Labme about the Qube OLED installation - which uses 1,400 Osram Orbeos OLED lighting panels. The beautiful video takes from the basic design phase through the assembly phase and finally to the finished installation. The idea behind to Qube was to build a room in which people can witness the beauty of OLED lighting.

Motorola's Droid RAZR is now shipping - starting at $111 (with a Verizon contract). The Droid RAZR is an LTE Android smartphone with a 4.3" qHD (960×540) Super AMOLED Advanced display. Other features include Gorilla Glass, a dual-core 1.2Ghz CPU, 8mp camera capable of Full-HD video, 1GB RAM, 16GB of flash memory (and a microSD slot). The RAZR is very thin at 7.1mm.

Apple filed a new patent that discusses using an OLED backlighting unit (BLU) for an LCD display. According to the patent filing, an OLED BLU unit may be thinner than a LED BLU and also have an improved light uniformity without using light guides. The BLU may act like a 'one large white pixel', but Apple also discusses the option that it may have several controllable 'areas' which will receive grayscale image information which may be used to modulate the light brightness (like local-dimming in full-array LED panels). Finally Apple says that the BLU will include one or more 'OLED units' bonded between two glass pieces. We're not entirely sure what they mean.

Using an OLED BLU for an LCD display has been discussed before, although it seems that it will not be a very efficient design - if you have a white OLED, why not use color-filters and not an LCD at all? This is the architecture that LG Display proposes for its upcoming OLED TVs.

Sony's next generation portable gaming device, the PSP Vita, has a 5" AMOLED display. It was always assumed that that display is made by Samsung - which is the only company that has the capacity to deliver so many displays. According to a post in a Korean site a Samsung official says that indeed that's the case.

The Vita features a 5" touch AMOLED display (960x544), a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor and a quad-core PowerVR (SGX543MP4+) GPU (Sony says that it is as powerful as a PS3), Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and 3G (AT&T, optional). Gaming controls include dual analog sticks, motion controls and a multi-touch pad on the rear side. It will ship in the US and EU on February 22nd 2012, and will cost $249 for the Wi-Fi version and $299 for the 3G one.

eMagin reported their 3Q 2011 results: the company matched their best quarter ever in revenues ($8.3 million, same as in 3Q 2010) and operating income was $1.6 million. Net income was $4.1 million.

eMagin also updates us that the new deposition machine that was shipped in October 2011 has arrived at their production facility, and they began to install the equipment. They expect it to operate in the first quarter of 2012. This new machine will increase deposition capacity 10-fold and will also improve the yield. The company said during the conference call that the cost of this new machine is $4 million.

Israel's Oree has developed a planar LED light source called the LightCell - which looks like an OLED. Now Cnlight (Guangdong Cnlight Optoelectronics Technology) has produced a table lamp that uses two such light sources.

Oree's LightCell e features 80 lm/W effifacy and 90-95 CRI, and it's rather thin at 3.73 mm. The LightCell has several individual LED dies and a flat light guide that creates a uniform planar emitting pattern.

There are reports that HTC is preparing a new Android smartphone - which will come with a 4.3" qHD Super AMOLED display (which seems to be the same one used in Motorola's Droid RAZR). This will be HTC's first OLED phone since they switched back to LCD in June 2010 due to Samsung's AMOLED supply issues. It's great to see HTC back into OLEDs...

The new handset (codename Ville) will sport a new UI (Sense 4.0), a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor and an 8mp camera (1080p video support). HTC will announce the Ville during MWC 2012 and release it in April 2012.

Reuters reports that Samsung Electronics is set to to invest a recored 33 trillion won (almost $30 billion) in factories and R&D in 2012 (a 27% increase over 2011). The company will increase spending on its system LSI business and OLED displays. In fact the report suggests that OLED investment in 2012 will reach 7 trillion won ($6.25 billion US). Samsung will halve its LCD investment to only 2 trillion won. Samsung didn't comment on this report...

Amazon.com are now offering the Samsung Note unlocked for $849.99, probably shipped from Europe. The Galaxy Note is a large Android v2.3 phone/mini-tablet with a 5.3" Super AMOLED display with an HD resolution: 1280x800 (a Super AMOLED HD display). Other specs include a dual-core 1.4Ghz processor, 8mp camera, touch display with pen input (it has a stylus). The phone is 9.65mm thick and weights 178 grams.

Samsung's Focus-S WP7.5 phone is now shipping for AT&T, starting from $159 (including a contract). The Focus S is a Windows phone 7 (Mango) phone with a 4.3" Super AMOLED Plus display. Other features include a 1.4Ghz processor, 16GB of internal memory, 4G-capable speed and a 8mp camera capable of 720p video. The phone is 8.55mm thick.