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Samsung is always innovating, and screen technology is a major facet of the company’s R&D. Recently Samsung released the Galaxy Round, sporting a ground-breaking curved display. Now Samsung has announced it’s working on a revolutionary display that is scheduled to be coming to market in 2015. It won’t merely be flexible, it will be completely foldable!…
In conjunction with its affiliate Cheil Industries, Samsung is buying German based OLED manufacturer Novaled to help meet the company’s demands for OLED screens. The $347 million deal will leave Samsung Electronics owning 40 percent of Novaled, Chiel Industries with 50 percent, and the last 10 percent will remain in the hands of Samsung’s venture…
Samsung is reportedly looking to acquire Germany-based Novaled, which specializes in PIN OLED technology that can reduce energy consumption while at the same time enhancing OLED panel’s shelf life. And it’s not really one of those out-of-nowhere news. Back in 2011, Samsung’s Venture Capital arm, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (SVIC) invested in Novaled, and now…
LG has announced via their recent financial results call that it will be releasing a smartphone with a flexible OLED screen by the end of the year, according to The Wall Street Journal. The news was dropped by vice president of LG’s mobile division Yoon Bu-hyun, who claimed that his division was working closely with…
Researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology Arman Ahnood thinks today’s OLED screens waste energy and there’s room for improvements. The extra light phone displays emit could be reused by putting a thin-film PV cells around the display’s edges. Here’s the idea: The photovoltaic (PV) cell takes advantage of the smartphone display’s large footprint. In…
Well, it looks like the HTC Droid Incredible is going to get one of those fancy SLCD screens from Sony and this should help keep the device on the shelves. As you know, HTC was having problems with the AMOLED screens it was getting from Samsung. Actually, the screens were fine but it couldn’t get…
Let’s be honest here, the iPhone 4’s Retina Display is absolutely stunning, with a resolution (326 ppi / dpi) that absolutely demolishes all competition in the market today. The new Retina Display, surpasses the resolution at which the human eye can resolve individual pixels, which is simply astounding (although debatable in its implementation, more below).…
The iPad 2 – that’s what this post is mostly about – or at least the screen anyway. Currently there’s a nice LCD screen doing the business in the iPad, but everyone knows that the holy grail of pretty colours and non-thrashed batteries is OLED. So would it be unreasonable if the next iPad had…
And by that title I don’t mean which tans better of course – rather, which device has a better screen when you’re in the sunlight! Is the Google Nexus One AMOLED, or the Motorola Droid (Milestone) TFT LCD? I think you may be able to guess the answer, but let’s read on …. The Google…
This is a pretty nice video comparison… the Samsung Omnia II OLED screen versus the Nokia N900 LCD screen. Now, OLED/AMOLED has become a somewhat popular topic of late, because it appears to give a very vivid yet balanced image, when compared with some of the slightly older screen technologies. But that’s no good of…