It seems like Samsung are quickly taking the lead on OLED technology adoption. They are now shipping new high-res panels (800x480), their 14.1" and 31" OLED TV panels are ready for production, and they report over 2M pre-orders for the new JET phone, and over 1.8M pre-orders for the Ultra Touch, both with OLED displays

Samsung have announced 6 new phones with OLED displays (see the right-side of this newsletter for a complete list). Some of these use the new high-res 800x480 panels, and almost all of them have touch screens. Samsung thinks that OLEDs will help them differentiate from other makers - better battery consumption, smaller factor, and sharper images.

Samsung has joined the OLED lighting race, and have showed some preliminary panels at SID. They are also working on flexible OLEDs, and have shown a new 'S' shaped prototype - 2", 240x320. They also gave more information on the e-passport (or id card) with an OLED displays. This OLED is also a 2" flexible QVGA (240x320) with 260K colors and 10,000:1 contrast. The display is very low on power, and uses just the wireless RF-power.

It's been a busy month here at OLED-Info. We have talked to several interesting people from the industry, and their share their views on OLEDs.

LG Displays' OLED sales and marketing VP, says they have a customer that will launch an OLED TV (15") in Korea in December 2009, rest of the world to follow. Link to interview

Lumicure's CEO. lumicure are working towards photo-therapy using OLEDs and non-organic LEDs, to treat skin cancer and other diseases. Will have their first product on the market in 2009. Link to interview

Seiko Epson's Core Technology Development Center General Manager talks about their new inkjet printable OLEDs. They expect companies to have 37" (or larger) OLED TVs based on this tech by 2012. Link to interview

QD Vision's CTO and co-founder talks about Quantum Dots tech, how it relates and competes with OLEDs, and reveals plans for a first product in Q4 2009 - a QD lamp. Link to interview

E Ink is an ePaper display technology, capable of producing thin, ultra-efficient and flexible displays. E Ink displays (made by US company E Ink Inc) are used in most electronic readers today (such as the popular Amazon Kindle), mobile phones and other products. E Inks do not compete with OLEDs, as they are targeted for different applications.

E Ink displays are made from tiny capsules. Each capsule includes two kinds of particles - black and white. Using electricity, we can choose whether the black or the white particles are on top - and thus create a black or white 'pixel'.

E Ink displays feature:

• Low power
• When the image is not changing, no power needed at all (like flash memory...)
• Easy on the eye - Looking at E Ink displays is comfortable - better than looking at LCD displays
• It is possible to make them flexible
• Extremely thin

Currently E Inks are only black and white. In the future we'll see color displays as well.

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