Samsung starts manufacturing 7″ AMOLED displays, tablets on the way?

By George Wong on 01/02/2012, filed in Home > Tablets

Samsung starts manufacturing 7 AMOLED displays, tablets on the way? Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 7.7 back in September last year as the world’s first tablet to sport at Super AMOLED Plus display, and now it looks like the tablet will be joined by yet another AMOLED-toting sibling. The folks over at OLED-Display.net were tipped off by some insiders that Samsung has started the production of 7″ AMOLED displays with WSVGA resolution (600 x 1024) that will be used in tablets. While it hasn’t been confirmed yet, Samsung might be the displays in its own tablets or it could be selling them to other device manufacturers such as ASUS or Sony.

This new AMOLED display is also much brighter than the 7.7 AMOLED displays, with 400 nit brightness as opposed to only 250 nit – however, it does have a lower resolution. Will a 7″ AMOLED display make you pick up a Galaxy Tab?

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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