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Some years ago LG Electronics aimed to be the first company to release a rollable smartphone, hoping to launch it by the end of 2021. Later in 2021 LG Electronics closed its smartphone business, and the rollable OLED phone project was scrapped.

We're still waiting for the first rollable smartphone - which will hopefully happen soon (at least rollable laptops are now shipping, although these aren't real consumer products yet, seems). An interesting video review surfaced today, showing a teardown of a prototype LG Electronics rollable OLED smartphone - the one that almost shipped. 

Rrings.com posted a very interesting article, in which they detail the results of their ongoing TV longevity test, in which they test 102 TVs to see which one lasts the longest. The test has been going on for three years. In general - most TVs were fine for the first 10,000 of use, but 20 TVs died during the test and 24 suffered from some sort of damage.

The most interesting takeaway is that OLED TVs actually suffered from less failures than LCDs. Most people assume that the lower lifetime of the organic materials (compared to the in-organic LEDs and LCs used in LCDs) means that the TVs are less reliable. But OLED burn-in has been consistently shown to be mostly a non-issue for most consumers, and the LED backlighting has a much higher chance of failure.

A few days ago we reported on Value Electronics' 2025 TV Shootout, where the winner was Sony' Bravia 8 II OLED TV, beating Samsung's S95F, Panasonic's Z95B and LG's G5. In that order. 

According to reports, LG's G5 OLED TV performance was rather dismal. Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, and one of the judges, said that the LG G5 TV failed several of the tests, showing wrong colors, suffering from a slight green cast the kept showing, and did not perform well in dark scenes.  In some of the tests, the judges gave LG the lowest score possible.

Value Electronics, an independent Audio/Video retailer in New York, hosted its annual TV Shootout Evaluation event a few days ago, bringing together several flagship TVs side-by-side to compare all picture quality attributes. The TVs, which were professionally calibrated to their best potential, were reviewed by a panel of judges using test patterns.

This year's winner was Sony' Bravia 8 II OLED TV, beating Samsung's S95F, Panasonic's Z95B and LG's G5. Interestingly, all four TVs that were chosen utilize OLED panels - this is the first time that no LCD TVs was included in the competition.

A few months ago Inuru started shipping its range of OLED-powered stickers, or "holo tags" as the company refers to them. These are battery-powered flexible stickers that can be used for laptops or any other use.

The company was kind enough to send us three stickers, from their latest Cyberpunk range. These stickers cost around 20 Euros, and there are many alternative designs. The idea is that the flexible stickers include a small OLED, a battery and a button that lights up the OLED for a few seconds. The whole device is said to be waterproof, but I did not test it.

Inuru says that the lifetime of the OLED is about 5,000 hours. As the battery is limited, though, they say that each sticker is limited at around 2,500 clicks. Some of them use a red OLED, and some a blue one.

US retailer Value Electronics hosted their annual TV shootout® (now in its 20ths year), checking high-end calibrated TVs to see which model provides the best image quality. This year, Value Electronics tested six TVs, three of which were OLEDs, and three miniLEDs.

The three OLED TVs were the LG G4, Samsung S95D and Sony A95L. As in previous years, the top performing TV is a QD-OLED TV - specifically Sony's A95L. All of the three OLED TV models outperformed the miniLED TVs, as you can see by clicking on the image above.

Our friends at DisplayMate posted an in-depth technical review of BOE's new X1 AMOLED display used in the upcoming OnePlus 12 smartphone. The OnePlus 12 hasn't officially launched, but we know it uses a 6.8" 3168x1440 2600 nits LTPO AMOLED display. The display has several novel technologies, including BOE's new-generation LTPO backplane, and the new Oppo P1 display chip that features high-precision pixel calibration algorithms that ensure high brightness, high image quality - reduced power consumption (by 13%, according to OnePlus).

Based on DisplayMate's extensive lab tests and measurements the OnePlus 12 delivers excellent display performance - and has earned the company's highest overall display assessment rating and highest display performance grade of A+. The display matches or breaks 18 different display quality records. some of these display records records include the highest peak display brightess (it reaches 2,675 nits for Low APL), the lowest screen reflectance (4%), the highestabsolute color accuracy (visually indistinguishable from perfect), and the largest native color gamut.

The following is a sponsored post by ISORG

ISORG is a French company based in Grenoble and Limoges in France, and the world centre of excellence for OPD technology (Organic Photo Diode). With more than 85 patents, ISORG is a technology rich company focused on three main market opportunities: (i) Smartphone fingerprint sensing, (ii) Security applications such as identification and border-crossing markets and (iii) SWIR and NIR CMOS imaging markets for automotive, AR-VR and smartphone applications. It has Gen 2 and Gen 3.5 factory capacity in France and a set of partnerships with leading companies in sensing and authentication. More can be found on ISORG here. In May 2022, CEO Dieter May left the helm of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors to join ISORG.

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Display industry consultant Ian Hendy has interviewed ISORG's CEO Dieter May.