Samsung and LG.Philips announce AMOLED displays

by Thomas Ricker posted May 17th 2007 at 7:54AM

A busy day on the OLED front this morning with both Samsung and LG.Philips announcing new AMOLED goods. Samsung announced the "world's thinnest" 2.2-inch Active-matrix OLED display (pictured above) which touts a 320 x 240 resolution, 262k colors, 10,000:1 contrast ratio, 100% NTSC color gamut, and life span of about 50,000 hours when set at 200cd/m2 brightness. Better yet, the 0.52-mm thin wafer of a display is ready for mass production. That trumps LG.Philips' new 4-inch AMOLED which rocks the same resolution but only 16k colors. That is, unless the whole flexible display thing gets ya hot. If so, then you'll want to check the pose after the break.

Read -- Samsung 2.2-inch
Read -- LG.Philips' 4-inch

Filed under: Displays

Tags: amoled, lg philips, lg.philips, LgPhilips, oled, samsung, slimmest, thinnest, world's thinnest, World'sThinnest

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ajeromin42 @ May 17th 2007 8:27AM

262 k colors, yes?

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NightCabbage @ May 17th 2007 7:46PM

Yes indeedy.

262,144 colours.

That was a mistake by the author :)

A 6-bit panel has 262k colours.

An 8-bit panel has 16.7 million colours.

Even a 10-bit panel has only 107 million - and no combination exists that yeilds million colours...

So, yes, definately a typo :P

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Darren @ May 17th 2007 11:56AM

Why does the Philips display say LCD on it? - is it the LCD division of LG.Philips who developed the AMOLED display (I would have though they'd have a seperate division for this technology).

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Gil @ May 17th 2007 8:24AM

50 000 hours = 5.7 years of continual use
Not bad for a consumer device considering the average Li-ion batt lasts 2.5 years.

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coyt.watters @ May 17th 2007 9:14AM

This is the one *I* want to see!

"LG.Philips LCD will unveil the full-color flexible AMOLED display at SID 2007 in Long Beach, California, on May 20."

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coyt.watters @ May 17th 2007 9:16AM

D'Oh, didn't get all of the quote... This would be a larger 14" version.

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3rdsun @ May 17th 2007 3:47PM

There goes Samsung with their worlds first mumbo jumbo again for the morning. Aren't they tired yet?

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nikster @ May 17th 2007 6:13PM

10,000 : 1 contrast on a phone display isn't tired no matter how you spin it. It's awesome.

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