As expected, Apple launched three new smartphones. The 2018-2019 lineup includes the OLED iPhone XS and XS Max and the iPhone XR which uses an LCD display.
The iPhone XS is the successor to the iPhone X - this phone sports a 5.8-inch 1125x2436 flexible notch-type AMOLED display (produced by Samsung Display), 4GB of RAM and 64/256/512 GB of storage.
Sony started shipping its flagship 2018 TV, the OLED AF9 - at $3,499 for the 55" model and $4,599 for the 65" model (note: affiliate links to Amazon).
Sony's AF9 is a consumer reference-quality OLED TV, available in 55" and 65". The 4K WRGB TVs include Sony's latest technologies, including the X1 Ultimate Picture Processor, Pixel Contrast Booster, and an automated calibration mode. The TVs include a dedicated Netflix Calibrated Mode.
A team at Queen's University Human Media Lab in Canada developed a new concept device called MagicScroll that features a rollable display wrapped around a cylinder that can be rolled to scroll the information. The display can also be rolled up to act like a regular tablet.
The display used in this demonstration is a 7.6" 2K rollable OLED. This is actually a tiled display made from two 5.5" FHD OLEDs taken from two LG Flex 2 smartphones (thank you Andrew M. Abrams from SCMR for clarifying this!).
Last year China-based Skyworth announced its first Wallpaper OLED TV, which resembles LG's own Wallpaper TVs with a design that enables handing the 3.6 mm screen on the wall and connecting the input box via a cable.
Skyworth's European brand, Grundig, has now demonstrated its own Wallpaper OLED TV at the IFA 2018 event.
Last month we reported that Sharp started producing OLED displays in June 2018 with aims to ship its first OLED Aquos smartphone in Q4 2018. At IFA 2018, the company demonstrated its first OLED smartphone, the 801SH.
The phone features a flexible edge-type and notch-type 6.2" 3120x1440 AMOLED display, and indeed it is likely that this display is produced by Sharp itself.
IDTechEx released a new OLED display market report, and the company estimates that OLED revenues will reach $25.5 billion in 2018 and will grow to $30.72 billion in 2019.
The largest sector in the OLED industry is smartphones - with a 88% share of the total OLED revenues. The second largest sector is OLED TVs - with a 8% revenue market share (but a 27% display area market share).
Turkey-based Vestel has been discussing OLED TVs since 2015, and the company demonstrated OLED TVs in 2016 and released its first OLED TVs (the 9900 series) in 2017.
In IFA 2018, Vestel introduced its new OLED TV model, called the SELETTE, which features the company's new smart TV platform. We do not have any more details regarding this TV, or when Vestel aims to actually bring it to market.
Update: It turns out that the display used by Nubia is produced by Visionox and not BOE as we assumed
China-based Nubia unveiled a new smart wearable device called the Nubia Alpha, which uses an elongated foldable OLED display. Nubia says that this device will ship in China by the end of 2018.
If Nubia actually ships its Alpha device before the end of 2018, it may become the first company to ship a foldable OLED smartphone. Samsung is gearing up to start foldable OLED production in 2018 but its first foldable smartphone is likely to ship in early 2019. Huawei is also said to get ready to release a foldable phone before the end of 2018 - using displays made by BOE. In fact BOE is reportedly developing foldable OLEDs for several smartphone makers - which means that it's likely that the Nubia Alpha is using a BOE display.
Last week Bugatti announced it is set to unveil its new Divo "hypercar" - which will feature OLED tail lights. Bugatti indeed unveiled its latest car, and you can see the OLED lights below:
Unfortunately, Bugatti did not disclose any details regarding these OLED taillights, hopefully we'll know more soon about these beautiful modules.
China-based Royole demonstrated its latest technologies at IFA 2018 - including the company's flexible AMOLEDs integrated into a top hat and a jacket and the company's Moon OLED HMD and its RoWrite E Ink writing pad.
Royole's flexible OLED displays are produced at the company's "quasi-G6" (5.5-Gen) OLED production fab in Shenzhen which started production in June 2018. In full capacity, Royole's fab will be able to produce over 50 million flexible OLEDs per year (45,000 monthly substrates).
