Samsung AMOLED Viewing Angle & Release Date
As an update on the forthcoming Samsung AMOLED netbooks, here’s a video of one seen in the flesh at the Flat Panel Display International show.
The brightness of the screen itself is ridiculous (probably good enough to use on a beach, on the brightest day of the year, with a nuclear mushroom as a backdrop, through a pair of brightness enhancing glasses. Ok – maybe not that good, but at least better than anything we’ve ever seen before).
But alongside that, the viewing angle of the machine is simply fantastic. It seems you can look at it from almost a 90 degree angle with no loss of image.
Without further pre-amble, here’s the video:
If you squint in the middle there, you can see the specs:
- Display Mode: AMOLED
- Resolution: 1024 x 600
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Colour Depth: 16.7m
- Brightness: 300 cd/m2
- Contrast Ratio: 100,000:1
- Color Gamut: >100%
- Interface: LVDS, RGB, MIPI
- Viewing Angle: Free in all directions
- Status: ‘10, 1Q Mass Production
- Main Application: Netbook, PC Phone, e-Book
The interesting piece for us is the line that says: ‘”Status: 10, 1Q Mass Production” – that means they’re mass producing these screens in the first quarter of 2010, meaning a release for the netbook early in the year.
