Logic Bolt may have thought to have dominated the unique projector phone market, but it was wrong as Samsung is running the race too. The last year’s CES had presented tiny DLP-based pico projector. Well, this year Samsung has incorporated something similar into its regular working mobile phone the name of which is still not announced. One can now think of carrying a TV sized screen in pocket in the form of this miniature projector phone. The new Samsung projector phone is due to be available in Korea this year with the Anycall brand that says it’s not a GSM device.

The almost-normally shaped candy bar handset is proud of being free of the huge chassis constraints covering other projector phones.

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It is said that that Organic light emitting diode (OLED) will be the best alternative to LCD screens in the coming years, but without their habit of color-shifting and fading after a few thousand hours.

With a lifetime of over 65,000 hours, Kodak has just announced its success in making a new kind of OLED.

In most of OLEDS there is special organic thin-film materials that begin to emit light an electrical charge stimulates it without any backlight. It shows that they are enough powerful-efficient and quite lighter than many other liquid crystal displays of today.

Another good thing about them is that they are viewable almost 180-degress and they do not suffer from motion blur just like many other LCD screens. Green dopant is a material that has been used to enhance lifetime, efficiency and luminance.

Corey Hewitt, Kodak vice president says in this connection, “We have made greater than 50% year-after-year developments in OLED luminance and the company will keep moving to fill the pipeline with new inventions to make sure that Kodak OLED materials are ready to use in a lot of emerging applications.”

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It has become Sony’s wont to always come with something new, (though there were some years in the doldrums, no doubt a nice come back as a major player of the industry.) now there is Bravia TV that seems it be the thinnest as well as lightest LCD set available in the market.

This 9.9 mm deep with just 12.2kg weight, the Bravia KDL-40ZXI will be available in Japan on 10th of November with a price tag of ¥490,000 ((£2,435).

It’s, indeed, a different OLED TV with it’s diagonal 40 inches that make it quite bigger than Sony’s other thin supermodel. Its 3mm XEL-1 measures around 11 inches. …read the rest of this entry»