Samsung's WVGA AMOLED: 800x480 pixels and swine-flu immune

There it is, the display that wil undoubtedly find its way into your future high-end smartphone. You're looking at Samsung's newest AMOLED display now pushing 300 pixels per inch scattered across a 800 x 480 (WVGA) panel with improved brightness. That's a damn fine display when you consider how brilliant typical 400 x 240 OLED displays are including that of the 480 x 272 pixel stunner found on the Zune HD. Sorry, no word on when these will go mass production but it's gotta be soon, right? Right!

[grull27 @ Jun 1st 2009 6:38AM]

WVGA AMOLED

That's way too many letters D:

[DR House @ Jun 1st 2009 6:53AM]

I'm not impressed i'll wait for the 1280x720 screens on 4inch display with the ability to shoot 1280x720p60 AVCHD and HD playback

[Tonicboy @ Jun 1st 2009 7:05AM]

@DR HOUSE

Well my 13.1" laptop screen is 1280x800, so I am trying to imagine it being shrunk by 70% and what I come up with is the most ridiculously unusable screen ever. Sheesh, some people are never satisfied.

[darkmax @ Jun 1st 2009 7:41AM]

WVGA AMOLED... shrunk down to WVALED... now we have a pronunciation problem.

[Information Central @ Jun 1st 2009 7:47AM]

Are people just forgetting about the sorry lifespan of OLED?

Let's not cheer for another disposable technology that screws the consumer by going bad after a couple of years.

[OneLove @ Jun 1st 2009 10:15AM]

I'll take the one on that right.

[hemmy @ Jun 1st 2009 11:37AM]

@Information Central

You don't use your gadgets nonstop 24/7 for several years on end, do you? That's what it will take before it gets "bad" as you say. (It's not like the screen stops functioning then. Consider the component with the worst halflife, the blue bits of the OLED display, will still be blue - dull and not as bright)

[Namarrgon @ Jun 1st 2009 11:43PM]

I've got a 3" piece of glossy paper here with a resolution of at least 2500 x 1800, and funny, I can still read everything on it.

[luke liu @ Jun 1st 2009 6:40AM]

Don't do it! It's a trap!

[Shinigami @ Jun 1st 2009 6:40AM]

Samsung Omnia HD - 640x360. Not enough?

[greenlight @ Jun 1st 2009 6:44AM]

If you've ever used a japanese phone (they all have WVGA/800x640 now) you'll realize just how awesome they look.

[greenlight @ Jun 1st 2009 6:45AM]

Sorry of course I mean 800x480

[daniel @ Jun 1st 2009 7:45AM]

Greenlight, you're forgetting how Japanese phones are long and thick with bad user interface.

[MONKEY @ Jun 1st 2009 10:38AM]

@daniel

Thats what she said.

[greenlight @ Jun 1st 2009 2:12PM]

@daniel of course I'm only commenting on the screen. Although they have fixed the thickness problem now. But the software is still completely unusable (only supporting sequentially-named files on memory cards... REALLY docomo?).

[gblairjr @ Jun 1st 2009 6:42AM]

Say it 3 times fast.

[BAWWW @ Jun 1st 2009 7:21AM]

i can't.
:(

[dd_nvidia @ Jun 1st 2009 6:51AM]

I remember when 42" Plasmas were 848x480.

Oh wait, I still have one =/

[T.W.G @ Jun 1st 2009 6:53AM]

Hi,

except that it is an AMOLED display it's not a new resolution.

I'm now getting my 3rd(!) handset from Sharp that features this resolution! Actualy the new 1810c!

854x480 pixel resolution and believe me: That's hard stuff for your eyes ;-)

[tikiwk @ Jun 1st 2009 7:04AM]

Yeah, that 800 x 480 is a fine resolution, but it's kind of useless on a 3" display. No one can see it except for the younger guys. What would be nice is a 4" display with 800 x 480. Like on the N800 or something like the Touch HD. Anything like the Diamond 2 and the text gets too small.

[JS @ Jun 1st 2009 3:58PM]

@tikiwk

Gosh, that was a bit inane of a comment. How does the "text get too small". There is a technology that I am patenting called FONT SCALING. Basically, the font size STAYS THE SAME PHYSICAL HEIGHT AND WIDTH even if the display has more pixels. It is like zooming. Each letter just uses more pixels. I am going to patent my idea and make billions.

You seriously don't understand what pixels are and how they make the font size. The number of pixels has nothing to do with the size of the font. You can increase the number of pixels and still have the same size text.

[quillaja @ Jun 2nd 2009 10:53AM]

@JS
THANK YOU so much for actually understanding that high pixel density doesn't mean things "get small." It's apparently impossible for most people to wrap their heads around the idea that an inch can still be an inch even when it's got more pixels crammed into it.

high PPI (DPI) = more detailed, crisper, and beautiful displays. Things "get small" when you have your display settings incorrectly set to 96 dpi when your display is really 120 or 144 (or some other number) dpi.

[Tony Montana @ Jun 1st 2009 7:19AM]

The Xperia X1 has a screen that is 3 inches big and has WVGA resolution and it looks stunning.

That isn't an AMOLED screen of course so this I think would be brighter.

I want to see this in a feature packed Android phone hopefully before the end of the year.

I'm raring for a new phone and all I see is iPhone clones ripping off the same multi touch feature which I'm not a fan of and Android the other OS doing something different to the iPhone.

I'd love to see a feature packed Android OS running on this baby.

[m3tric @ Jun 1st 2009 10:32PM]

Gawd, you're right. Thank god Apple invented multi-touch right?

http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html

[Dexter. @ Jun 1st 2009 7:10AM]

300ppi... daaaaymn!

[damiaking @ Jun 1st 2009 7:35AM]

god thing they wearing mask cuz that phone look sick!

[LondonConsultant @ Jun 1st 2009 7:37AM]

I assumed the phone had swine flu...

[Ant @ Jun 1st 2009 7:35AM]

Well this looks like it might be just the thing that Apple has been working with Samy on for the new iPhone/Pod. I always thought they might do the 300ppi for the new screens, that would be somthing really special, photo lab quality on a small screen. Just wish they could push the boat right out a do the same 300ppi on a 4" like many are saying, Mmmmmm, 4inch widscreen 300ppi AMOLED on the new iPod, game over, as long as the sound quality is to match.

[Distractedfocus @ Jun 1st 2009 8:20AM]

Thats looks like the new Iphone, is this a rumor
Does it have Swine Flu?

[Kinger @ Jun 1st 2009 8:50AM]

so...many...pixels

[Jake @ Jun 1st 2009 9:25AM]

I live in Korea and own the Samsung T*Omnia phone which has 800 x 480.

The display is quite impressive and watching video files compressed to 800 x 480 or very close to that resolution is incredile.

[Stellist @ Jun 1st 2009 10:09AM]

Well, it's nothing new.

CASIO Exilim W63CA Cameraphone used 3.1inch WVGA AMOLED.

[warsteiner89 @ Jun 1st 2009 10:46AM]

the picture made me think of what would happen if storm shadow decided to work for samsung

http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/joe/Sshdwbio.gif

[TareX @ Jun 1st 2009 11:15AM]

WANT WANT WANT WANT.

Now that it's there, I must have it. I hope the Christmas 2009 smartphone lineup has it on a smartphone running Android Eclair (with OpenGL ES 2.0)...

[EJ @ Jun 1st 2009 11:31AM]

you mean H1N1

[rudy @ Jun 1st 2009 11:42AM]

I'd love to see that baby on some high end smartphone or mid.

Maybe the archos android annoucnement on June 11th?

[Ian @ Jun 1st 2009 1:37PM]

wait you mean people are still actually worried about swine flu?? wow the media got ya didn't they.

[Ryan F. @ Jun 2nd 2009 1:30PM]

swine flu? i thought they were white ninjas