Samsung Display, supplies 7-inch OLED for Virtual Exterior Mirror to Audi
Samsung Display announced on October 3 that the company will be supplying a 7-inch OLED display for Audi’s all-new electric Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), the Audi e-tron®. The Audi e-tron has attracted attention throughout the automotive industry. One of its highlights are optional* ‘virtual exterior mirrors’ – a ‘first’ for a volume-production car.
8K OLED TV, Can we see it in the second half of the year?
Sharp has already started selling 8K LCD TVs for the first time in the world since last year. Samsung Electronics showcased 8K TV at CES earlier this year, and will launch 8 K QLED (QD-LCD) products in the second half of the year. In the OLED camp, LG Display exhibited 88inch 8K OLED TV at CES,
Vivo released OLED smart phone with more than 90% display area.
Vivo, a Chinese Smartphone maker, announced on June 12 that it will launch a new full-screen OLED Smartphone 'NEX' as its flagship line.
Xiaomi re-adopts OLED in two years.
After two years of the launch of Redmi Pro and Mi Note2 in 2016, Xiaomi adopted OLED again.
On May 31, Xiaomi unveiled its flagship smartphones such as Mi8, Mi8 Explorer Edition, Mi8 SE, and its smart watch Mi band3, to mark the eighth anniversary of its founding.
Samsung Electronics, is increasing full screen rigid OLED adoption.
Samsung Electronics is expected to launch next-generation smartphones with full-screen rigid OLEDs, next to the popular Galaxy A8 (2018) series. Accordingly, attention is focused whether the sluggish rigid OLED market will revive.
LG OLED TV was selected as the best TV for 3 consecutive years.
At the best 2018 TV released recently by Consumer Reports, US consumer magazine, LG Electronics' 65-inch OLED TV 'OLED65C8PUA' was selected as the best product among all the products.
OLED smartphones of the notch design type, will become trends in 2018?
Since Apple first unveiled its OLED smartphone in the notch design type on iPhone X, lots of smartphone makers are to release OLED smartphones in succession. Attention is focused whether notch-type OLED smartphones will be become trends in the smartphone market in 2018.
OLED TV continuing to evolve
At the '4th 2018 OLED Korea Conference' hosted by UBI research on March 7-8, Dr. Han Chang-Wook, Chief Research Fellow of LG Display, made a presentation for the development process of OLED TVs and emphasized the image quality of OLED, design flexibility and expandability.
Samsung Electronics, releases Galaxy S9 at MWC 2018
Samsung Electronics will unveil Galaxy S9, its next-generation strategic smartphone, at MWC 2018, held in Barcelona, Spain on February 25. Galaxy S9 is anticipated to be equipped with various features such as dual cameras for the first time at the Galaxy S series and intelligent scanning, so expectations for the Galaxy S9 are rising.
CES 2018: Expected to Showcase Low to Mid-End Smartphones
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are going to unveil low to mid-end smartphones at CES 2018 instead of their mainstream smartphones.
OLED applied Galaxy Book 12.0 released in Japan
Samsung Electronics launched its Windows tablet 'Galaxy Book 12.0' in Japan. It has a 12-inch OLED display with an aspect ratio of 3: 2 and a resolution of 2,160 × 1,440. The size is 291.3 × 199.8 × 7.4 mm (WLH), the weight is 754 g, and the official price is 139,800 yen.
LG V30 + launched in Japan and India
According to ITmeadia of Japan, NTT docomo said that LG Electronics' smartphone 'V30 + L-01K' and 'JOJO L-02K' started to be sold in advance as from 12:00 on December 20th at DoCoMo store and web site. The full-fledged release of V30 + L-01K will be at the end of January 2018, and that of JOJO L-02K is scheduled in March 2018.