Samsung netbook gets AMOLED display

on 10/28/2009, filed in Home > Computers

Samsung recently paraded a new netbook that will boast a 7″ AMOLED display that has 1,024 x 600 resolution alongside a 16:9 contrast ratio for cinematic buffs, a brightness level of 300 cd/m2 and a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. This ought to keep you drooling for quite some time, but we hope the future will bring something much larger than just 7″ of viewing area – isn’t it regressing to the early days of the Eee PC?

AMOLED: stands for Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode, is a display technology in which an electro-luminescent organic compound (organic=contains Carbon) is used to light up pixels. Active Matrix refers to a technique to control the pixels and sub-pixels (RGB components) state which was introduced in the mid-70s. Active Matrix is used with many kinds of displays, but the most famous are TFT LCD and AMOLED.

Samsung: Samsung is a South-Korean conglomerate which counts many subsidiaries like Samsung Electronics, which you probably know very well, but also Samsung Heavy Industries which builds ships, or Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Securities and many more. Samsung is responsible for an amazing 20% of South Korea's exports. In the consumer electronics world, Samsung has gone from being a company with a reputation for cheap products to becoming one of the most respected companies in the world.

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