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Chinese Makers Look to OLEDs

by Tom Allen

Etmag claims that Chinese panel makers are increasingly investing in AMOLED and PMOLED technologies, to secure flexible display orders from China-based wearable vendors. Everdisplay, Tianma (G6), BOE (G5.5) and CSOT (G6) are all said …

Samsung To Begin Mass Large OLED Production This Year

by Tom Allen

Samsung unveiled new OLED displays at Retail Asia Expo last month (Samsung Debuts Mirror and Transparent OLEDs). Now, Korea’s Digital Times claims that Samsung Display will start mass production of these products on the …

New Samsung Modules Cause Apple to Look Again

by Tom Allen

Korea’s Digital Daily claims that Apple is considering a deal with Samsung, as a potential supplier for the Apple Watch’s OLED display. This counters earlier rumours, which said that Apple would retain LG as …

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Samsung to Ramp OLED Production

by Milos Pavlovic

Due to its ‘tumbling’ share in the global smartphone market, Asian sources claim that Samsung will ramp up its supply of OLED panels in Q3. Almost half of Samsung Display’s OLED panel capacity has …

OLED iPhone? Not For Three Years

by Tom Allen

A report from Business Korea claims that Apple will launch a curved-screen iPhone in 2018. The phone would feature an OLED display, according to the rumour. (frankly – I would treat with extreme caution …

Apple Watch Has ‘Excellent’ Display

by Tom Allen

Ray Soneira, president of DisplayMate, has put the Apple Watch through a series of tests in the company’s latest Display Technology Shoot-Out. His conclusion is that it is an excellent, artefact-free smartwatch display. The …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 27

by Milos Pavlovic

HTC‘s One M9+ smartphone is now available to pre-order in the UK, confirming a story that we published last month (Rumour: HTC’s M9+ Coming to Europe). China’s Meizu has introduced its newest flagship, the …

Is Flexible OLED Possible for Apple’s iPhone?

by Tom Allen

UBI Research, of Korea, writes that flexible AMOLED displays are the newest form of smartphone differentiation. Now that hardware performance has improved ‘as much as possible’, Samsung and LG are using flexible screens to …

Global Display Market to Reach $155 Billion by 2020

by Tom Allen

Marketsandmarkets has published a new report on the global display market: including LCD, LED, OLED and electrophoretic types. The report (paid: http://tinyurl.com/ptorcva) analyses the display market to 2020. CAGR is expected to be 6% …

Samsung AMOLEDs Approach LCD Efficiency

by Tom Allen

Anandtech has posted an article analysing the varying power consumption levels of Samsung’s AMOLED displays, in the Galaxy S4, S5, S5 LTE-A and S6. A white image (forcing the OLED display to draw the …

Apple Patents Method to Raise AMOLED Display Brightness

by Tom Allen

Apple has been granted several new patents, but those that we are interested in relate to AMOLED displays – specifically, raising the performance of these devices. A top-emission AMOLED uses a top electrode with …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 25

by Tom Allen

A very thin smartphone has been launched in China. The Coolpad IVVI is 4.9mm thick and uses a 5″ AMOLED display (1920 x 1080). Running Android 4.4.4 on a 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor, the …