Optimus have released photos of the newly assembled Aux prototype, the fifteen-key accessory that will use the same OLED technology as its Maximus full-QWERTY sibling. While it’s arguably straightforward to produce a slick prototype and then ruin things with a shoddy production run, we have to give the Optimus guys credit here: the Aux looks great.
Well, we’re not feeling that “Optimus AUX” font, which looks a little system-default at this angle, but the matte metal and black plastic cross-section is great and the whole thing manages to look a lot less intrusive than the bulky Maximus. No shot of the rear panel, but we already know there’ll be a single upstream USB port, two downstream USB ports for peripherals, the power socket and a Kensington lock hole.
Optimus are intending the Aux to be of use to both current Maximus owners - who could employ it as a supplementary shortcut pad - and to new users who perhaps can’t afford the full-keyboard’s price tag. No word on price or availability; initial rumors suggested sometime either at the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009.
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Written by Chris Davies on November 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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Samsung’s SDI division showed up their latest display creation to woo attendees at the FPD International 2008 Expo. They demonstrated a 0.05mm thick 4-inch OLED display hung in the air to make it flutter from the breeze. Samsung has named it as Flapping Display and it is so thin that even a light breeze from a fan can make it flutter.
Samsung claims that they could make a display thinner than this but the circuit components and other materials involved makes it difficult to achieve. On the technical side, the display boasts a resolution of 480X272 pixels, contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and a luminous power of 200cd/m2.
[Via Techon]
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Written by Kunal Gangar on October 30th, 2008 with no comments.
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Samsung has always had a distinct relationship with the word “thin”, especially if we talk about the company’s mobile phones. Of course, not all of Samsung’s handsets can be called thin, but there are lots of them which can.
Today, during FPD International 2008, Samsung has unveiled a new ultra-thin product. It’s not a cell phone, but a 4-inch OLED display that may and probably will be, sometime in the future, included in a phone model.
The display is only 0.05 millimeters thin. The South Korean company named it “flapping display” because, being so thin, it’s just like a sheet of paper.
Apart from that, the new Samsung OLED panel also has a stunning contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and a luminance of 200cd/m2. Even more, its color reproduction range is said to be 100% of the NTSC standard.
An interesting aspect is that, although it measures 4 inches in diagonal, the flapping display has a resolution of only 480 × 272 pixels. Which is not at all bad, but since there are 3.8 inch displays with 800 x 480 pixels, I think Samsung can do better.
Anyway, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time until Samsung comes up with a flapping display that can support a VGA+ resolution and is also small enough to be used in a mobile phone.
For the moment, however, the 0.05mm-thin display is not ready for mass marketing and there’s no word about when it will be.
Via Tech On Nikkei
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Written by Ilinca Nita on October 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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Samsung’s flexible OLED panel isn’t the only display the company has been showing off this week; they’ve also wheeled out a 40-inch OLED screen capable of full 1920 x 1080 high-definition resolution. The new panel also has a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.
The prototype is an update of a previous 40-inch OLED display, which Samsung first began developing in 2005. That first screen, while the same size, had a resolution of just 1,280 x 800 and a 5,000:1 contrast ratio. Samsung demonstrated the latest model alongside the 14-inch and 31-inch prototypes it recently unveiled at IMID in Korea.
At 40-inches full-HD, the panel is a world-first. Samsung has given no indication of if or when this specific display will be commercialized, but the company has previously claimed that AMOLED screens will become economically feasible in 2009.
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Written by Chris Davies on October 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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Samsung’s showing off at the FPD International 2008 show, with a 4-inch, ultra-thin 0.05-mm OLED with 480 x 272 pixel resolution, 100,000:1 contrast, 200cd/m2 brightness. So thin mind you, that it was displayed flapping in the wind. Then they showed off a transparent AMOLED display. The color reproduction range is 100% of the NTSC standard. Take that you other anorexic displays. In order to achieve this thickness, Samsung etched an OLED panel that uses a normal glass substrate. The drive circuit was made by low-temperature polysilicon TFTs.
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Written by Conner Flynn on October 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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Samsung have been demonstrating a 4-inch OLED panel that, at 0.05mm thick, is flexible enough to flutter in the breeze from a fan. Coined the “flapping display”, the OLED was manufactured in the normal way up until the point where it would be sealed in a glass substrate; instead, they used a new membrane sealing technology that both protects the display but leaves it flexible.
According to a Samsung representative, the 0.05mm thickness was a relatively arbitrary figure rather than the limits of the manufacturing process. “It is technically possible to make the panel thinner,” they explained, “however, it is difficult to further reduce the thicknesses of the flexible substrates and circuit components around it.”
The 480 x 272 resolution OLED has a 100,000:1 contrast ratio and 200cd/m2 luminance, and is capable of displaying 100-percent of the NTSC color range. Low-molecular organic EL materials were used, together with a low-temperature polysilicon TFT control circuit almost as thin as the overall display itself.
[via OLED-News]
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Oh, the Gameboy. How you fill my heart with nostalgia. And though you can still readily find the handy devices online for cheap, it’s an entirely different story when you can make one for yourself.
Matt from Liquidware Antipasto, has made an open source Gameboy called the Gamepack that uses extra parts to make for some fun gaming action. It features an Arduino microprocessor, a 128 x 128 TouchShield Stealth color OLED touchscreen and an InputShield board. This includes a joystick, rumble effects and control buttons.
You can buy the Gamepack right now as a kit. Sounds like a fun weekend project, to me. It currently only runs some simple code, but the idea is that others will use the kit to make more complex games. You can buy the kit now for $249. Check out the Gamepack in action below:
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Written by Brenda Stokes on October 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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If you fancy a new clamshell handset that’s not a total ripoff of the Motorola RAZR, then you might want to take a look at the Hitachi W63H. It’s a new clamshell up for release in the Japanese market right now, and comes with some pretty cutting-edge features.
By cutting-edge, of course, I mean its 3.1-inch OLED display which is only now making ways to the phones of tomorrow’s mainstream market. It should offer crisp, bright visuals without draining too much battery life.
Can’t say much else about this new handset for now, except that its screen resolution is a lovely 480 x 800 pixels (WVGA), it offers 1-Seg support, and is available in three colors: orange, white, and black. No details were available on pricing.
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Written by David Gonzales on October 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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