Samsung's new Super-AMOLEDs displays has an integrated touch sensor (which is just 0.001mm thick). Samsung say that it provides a superior image (five-times as Vivid) and 20% more bright in direct sunlight. Samsung has also unveiled the first phone to use these new displays, the Wave (which is also the first Bada OS phone, and the first Bluetooth 3.0 one). It has a 3.3" Super-AMOLED

People who've seen it say that the display is indeed superb. There are several videos and photos that show us the displays, and compares it to other LCDs or AMOLEDs. Finally, you can view Samsung explain the Super-AMOLED, how it works and why it's better than regular AMOLEDs.

OLED Lighting is still hot, each month we hear of new companies getting involved in this market, new upcoming production lines and more funding flowing to the next-gen lighting technology. Pioneer will develop OLED Lighting with Mitsubishi Chemicals: Pioneer will be the one to actually make the panels, and Mitsubishi will sell them across Verbatim's worldwide sales network. The plan is to start mass production in 2011, with a sales target of $335 million in 2015 and $1.1 billion in 2020.

Ex-Kodak employees has decided to form a new OLED Lighting company. It'll be called TechnoGroup Energy. We don't have a lot of information yet, but they already got some seed funding.

Korea's Modistech is working on flexible OLED Lighting, and plans to commercialize their panels (150x150mm) in 2010. They want to address the Indirect lighting market which does not require high luminance. It can be used in furniture, kitchenware, airplanes and especially automobiles (make up light, glove box light, foot light and trunk light).

Meanwhile, in Japan, Lumiotec has started shipping their OLED Lighting dev kits. The development kits include one 145mm x 145mm OLED panel, a controller and an AC adapter. They cost ¥84,000 each (about $930). So now have three companies that actually ship OLED 'samples': Philips, OSRAM and Lumiotec. OSRAM, by the way, reprot that they are seeing a high interest in their ORBEOS OLED panels.

The DisplayBlog and DisplayMate are working on an interesting series of tests for Google's Nexus One phone AMOLED display. Their main conclusions: the display isn't sharp, colors are inaccurate, it ain't so bright. They say that "if the Nexus One display were an LCD it would rank among the worst displays we have ever seen in a shipping product.". They blame both the Android OS and the poor factory calibration. This is very interesting as most reviewers have been very happy with this display. We'll keep watching...