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Visionox Shares AMOLED Design Wins

by Tom Allen

Visionox has begun to produce a 1.45″ AMOLED display for wearable applications. The new display has 340 x 272 resolution and a 1.5mm frame. It features both MIPI and SPI interfaces. Visionox has said …

2015 was “Banner Year” for AMOLED Smartphones

by Tom Allen

21% of the smartphone display market was taken by Full HD smartphone panels in Q3’15 – largely due to the increase in AMOLED display adoption by Samsung and other vendors, says IHS. Unit shipments …

Tags:AMOLED| IHS Markit| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 51

ETRI Uses Graphene to Raise Transparent Viewing Angles

by Tom Allen

Transparent OLEDs, like this 2010 Samsung prototype, suffer from poor viewing anglesBy integrating graphene into OLEDs, Korean scientists have managed to improve the transparency and image quality of display panels by between 40% and …

FlexEnable-CPT Show Glassless AMOLED

by Tom Allen

FlexEnable and CPT manufactured a flexible, colour AMOLED display back in June (CPT-FlexEnable Partnership Marks Flexible Mass-Production), and have now published a video of it in action. Watch it below or visit http://tinyurl.com/q6tjc45.

Rumour: Samsung Will Cut OLED Prices

by Tom Allen

Korean media outlets have published multiple claims about Samsung’s OLED capacity. iNews 24 says that the company will ‘mass produce’ transparent OLED displays this month, with initial supply mainly going to retailers in North …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 49

by Tom Allen

Amazon has released a ‘Reader’s Edition’ of its Kindle Fire HD 8 tablet, which combines the device with a year-long subscription to Kindle Unlimited; a leather cover; and a new feature called Blue Shade. …

Oxy Wants to Produce ‘The Perfect Smartwatch’

by Tom Allen

A British start-up called Oxy has launched an Indiegogo campaign (http://tinyurl.com/q9dgrtd) to raise money for a new smartwatch (also called Oxy). The watch has a 1.39″ 400 x 400 AMOLED display, protected by Gorilla …

Tags:AMOLED| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 48

Samsung Aims at 10% AMOLED Premium

by Tom Allen

China Times claims that Samsung Display is aiming to lower the price premium of its small- and medium-sized AMOLED displays to within 10% of that of LCD displays next year. Currently, the screens are …

A-Si Leads, but High-Tech Smartphone Panels are Rising

by Tom Allen

Total smartphone panel shipments rose 4% MoM in September, with particular growth noted in the high-end, says IHS. Shipments reached 160 million units and, while a-Si units continued to lead, LTPS TFT-LCD demand is …

Visionox’s AMOLED Beats 600 ppi

by Tom Allen

Visionox has developed a small, high-resolution AMOLED panel, using fine metal mask technology. The 4.85″ unit has 2560 x 1440 resolution (604 ppi) and uses the company’s RGB sub-pixel arrangement.

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Resolution| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Samsung’s Video Shows AMOLED Advantages

by Tom Allen

Samsung Display has released a fun video, highlighting the benefits of AMOLED technology on a smartphone compared to LCD. Watch it at http://tinyurl.com/q44jbg9. Analyst Comment I was surprised (but pleased) to see the video …

Tags:AMOLED| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Samsung Adopts Corning

by Tom Allen

Samsung Display has chosen to use Corning Lotus NXT Glass as a backplane substrate for its LTPS OLED panels. These panels are used in the Galaxy Note 5.