Samsung's new phone has an anti-reflective OLED display for outdoor use

Update: Samsung has offically launched this phone as the s-8500 Wave, with a 3.3" Super-AMOLED.

Samsung has a new phone, the GT-8500. It's the first phone that has Bluetooth 3.0. But that's not the most interesting bit - it has a 3.1" touch OLED that Samsung say is "anti-reflective" and thus suitable for outdoor use. It'll be interesting to see how it behaves in direct sun, and to hear what exactly makes it anti-reflective...

OLEDs has been said to have poor sunlight visibility, although newer OLEDs are reportedly better.

Posted: Feb 02,2010 by Ron Mertens