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HTC switches to Super LCDs for the HTC Desire and Nexus One

by on 26. Jul, 2010 9:08AM in Android, HTC, Mobile, News, Sony

As you may or may have not heard, Samsung is having a heck of a time producing Super AMOLED and regular AMOLED screens, and only wants to keep the screens for its Galaxy S line phones. Whereas Sony is full of Super LCD screens, which are very close to AMOLED screens and can be read in direct sunlight. HTC’s CEO Peter Chou remarked that the SLCDs are “comparable” to the older screens and offers more battery life.

Strangely, the Droid Incredible (which has stocking issues because of this) wasn’t mentioned in the press release. Otherwise, the SLCD rollout is “later this summer”, for the international Nexus One sold overseas (even though it’s not in the U.S) and HTC Desire. PR after the cut!

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Hands-On: Samsung Intercept with Sprint (yay, video!)

by on 13. Jul, 2010 10:16PM in Android, Mobile, Samsung, Sprint

The Samsung Intercept, aka Moment2, just strolled by (in the form of a BBQ-eating family attendee). To cut the story short, the lighting conditions and amount of space available was epically abysmal, on top of the Panasonic LUMIX G10′s poor ISO performance. Forgive me for the shots, but you can take a short look at the Intercept by watching the video after the cut.

Hands-On With The Samsung Intercept

The handset itself is plasticky, with a 3.2 megapixel camera with poor ISO performance, but great daylight shots. Coupled with Sprint 3G, Android 2.1 with a light version of Touchwiz 3.0 (FroYo comes this summer), and a 3.2-inch 800 x 480 WVGA resolution AMOLED display, which for some reason didn’t quite impress me much like other AMOLED Android offerings. The same also goes for the entire phone, though the keyboard can beat the Ally’s and Droid’s by a mile. Video after the break!

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Android phone’s battery life could be doubled by using AMOLED hack

by on 04. Jul, 2010 12:58PM in Android, Did You Know?, FTW, Hardware, Mods

How far would you go to extend the battery life on your Android phone that uses an AMOLED screen?

Would you order the pixels to display certain colors as seen above to save energy? Android engineer Jeff Sharkey took 5 Nexus Ones (Nexi?) and only powered each color channel seen in an AMOLED screen (red, green, and blue). Apparently, Jeff found out with an industrial-level power meter that by only using red pixels, which could serve as a night-vision mode, used the least power.

Jeff’s quote:

“Filtering to show only red pixels only requires 35% of the original baseline OLED panel current, on average. Adding back the baseline current, the best case overall is about 42% of the original system current, effectively doubling the battery life. Also, showing only red pixels doubles as an awesome night vision mode, perfect for astronomy.”

To get your night-vision fix on your Android, check out his blog, then expect that the modder and hacker communities (xda-developers comes to mind) will come up with a solid hack that can do this easily.

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Soon, You Won’t Be Finding An AMOLED In Your Next HTC Phone

by on 26. Jun, 2010 12:18PM in Android, Hardware, HTC, Mobile, Samsung

Good news everyone, and we have bad news everyone! No really. Due to the outstanding demand of all of the phones that HTC offers (namely the Droid Incredible, Nexus One) the stock of AMOLED screens is down to a point where the devices can’t be manufactured. Samsung produces those AMOLEDs, and they’re saving everything for the Galaxy S (which will be coming to the States as the Vibrant on T-Mobile and Captivate on AT&T). The Galaxy S requires Super AMOLEDs, so in this case Samsung will need all of its resources to produce the screens.

Thus, HTC will be switching many of its handsets to LCD variants. Whether or not they will be labeled as such remains to be seen, but it would be better for everyone if you knew that your next Android phone doesn’t have the AMOLED others have. The exact screens HTC will be installing will be Sony’s S-LCD (Super TFT LCD) which they claim uses less power, and higher resolutions, but with a lower contrast ratio.

On the flipside Samsung is shelling out 2 billion USD for a  plant which should open in July 2011. The new plant will produce AMOLEDs at 10-fold, so Samsung can almost make 30 million displays each month. Cool stuff are going around here, didn’t you know?

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According To Samsung: iPhone 4′s Retina Display Is Pfffft.

by on 10. Jun, 2010 7:24AM in Android, Apple, Hardware, Mobile, Samsung

According to Samsung, (the above Photoshopped image is just illustration) the difference between Samsung’s Super AMOLED screen in the Galaxy S versus the iPhone 4′s IPS LCD is superior. When you do compare the two in real life, it becomes a little tight, but until the iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S both hit final production units, I think it’s time to let this rest. In the meantime, I foresee a ton of higher-resolution super Androids!

Source: Electronista

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The Making Of Google’s Nexus One Part 2: OLED displays & 3D

by on 07. Feb, 2010 11:01AM in Google, Mobile

Part 2 of the Nexus One video series is up on YouTube. As a quick recap, these videos are created by Google to tell you how the Nexus One was developed. While in the first part they focused on sound and the concept, the second part focuses on the 3.7-inch AMOLED display and 3D interface. So grab yourself some popcorn (small is perfect) and watch the video after the break. [Via Google Nexus One YouTube Channel]

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Samsung Omnia II: Verizon, $200, and Windows Mobile 6.5

by on 23. Nov, 2009 9:17AM in Breaking, Mobile

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So now you know when the Samsung Omnia II is coming out (December 2nd), and that’s it’s going to be priced for $199.99 (after 100 mail-in rebate), and that it’s going to be on Verizon’s network, and that it has a 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen with the 3D cube TouchWiz 2.0 UI.,  and it runs Windows Mobile 6.5; which one would you buy? The Droid or the Omnia II? You know the answer to that one, don’t you?

[Verizon Wireless]

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