Truthfully, we wouldn’t put too much stock in that headline considering that Samsung Mobile Display, a company that makes its ends off of selling active-matrix OLEDs, is the source. But on the other hand, we can definitely see it coming to fruition. According to a new report, said outfit has stated that OLED screens of some sort will be on over half of all mobile phones (not just smartphones, mind you) within the next five years, and that these same power-sipping displays will be on 20 percent of digital cameras and 30 percent of portable game players (PSP2, anyone?) within the same window of time. While it may seem a bit far-fetched now, we actually have good reason to believe that OLED adoption will indeed skyrocket on the small scale; it’s those big screen TVs that we’re worried only our grandchildren will truly enjoy.
[Via OLED-Info]
Filed under: Cellphones
Samsung: OLED screens on half of mobile phones within 5 years originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Given that the timing is right for manufacturers to update various models, it should come as no surprise that the rumors are leaking left and right–especially at sites whose stock-in-trade is tracking these types of rumors.
According to the Canon Rumors blogger, "If this is real, I'll
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We’ve known for some time that China Mobile was planning to launch the KIRFy OPhone from Lenovo. Now, with word on the street that China Unicom has snagged the iPhone in that provider’s home turf, a report from DigiTimes is suggesting that China Mobile might be trying to undermine the competition’s supposed June iPhone launch by dropping the OPhone a month earlier. That sounds sensible enough, but are people there so eager for iPhone they’d jump on the imitation rather than wait another month for the real thing? We’ll find out soon enough.
[Image courtesy of modmyGphone]
Filed under: Cellphones
China Mobile planning to subvert Unicom’s iPhone launch with the OPhone? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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What, you’re still looking for the perfect place to archive your photos between candid, booze-fueled wedding reception moments? If JOBO’s GIGA didn’t do it, nor Digital Foci’s Photo Safe, maybe Nexto’s half-terabyte NVS2500 is the one you’ve been waiting for. It packs a 2.5-inch drive that can be as small as 160GB if you’re so inclined, a 2.4-inch LCD, and of course integrated readers for just about every memory card format known to man. It can even write simultaneously to an external USB device, ensuring you never lose that precious photo of Uncle Saul scaring the flower girl with his dentures. No word on availability or price, but perhaps by the time the Smith-Fitzimmons party pays off its album you’ll be able to pick one up.
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Storage
Nexto’s NVS2500 archives your photos, dreams, and memories originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Move over IBM–database manufacturer Oracle today has agreed to buy Sun Microsystems in a deal that values the company at $7.4 billion, or $9.50 a share.
The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems, said Oracle head Larry Ellison in a statement issued today. Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system–applications to disk–where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.
Beyond the monetary sums the information on the transaction remains aw bit sketchy. The fate of Sun employees remains up in the air, though Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz remains optimistic on the topic. This is one of the toughest emails Ive ever had to write. Its also one of the most hopeful about Suns future in the industry, Schwartz wrote to his staff on Sunday. Oracles interest in Sun is very clear–they aspire to help customers simplify the development, deployment and operation of high value business systems, from applications all the way to datacenters. By acquiring Sun, Oracle will be well positioned to help customers solve the most complex technology problems related to running a business.
Panasonic’s latest camcorders have been well-liked by the masses, but haven’t quite had enough features to appease those consumers with higher expectations — or professionals on limited budgets. To captivate the eyes and ears of that prosumer market the company has announced the AG-HMC40, a 2.2 pound semi-pro cam that will do 1080i or 720p at 60 frames-per-second, but more important for many can manage a cinematic 1080p at 24 frames-per-second, all written to SDHC cards. With 10.6 megapixel stills and a 12x optical zoom on tap it sounds like a very well-rounded offering, and, while $3,195 may not fit into every budget, it should do well for modestly funded aspiring filmmakers when it ships in August — just in time for capturing some back-to-school teen angst drama.
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Panasonic’s AG-HMC40 does 1080p24 on something of a budget originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ray tracing is the current holy grail of gaming graphics, the rendering technique that might finally make the licensed game based on Pixar’s latest look as good as the film itself. But, the typically random nature of rays has made rendering them on traditional hardware inefficient, a problem Caustic Graphics claimed to have solved, and is now backing that up by giving PC Perspective some further details and demos. The company’s tech will rely on a new graphics co-processor called the Ray Tracing Processing Unit (RTPU), working in concert with existing 3-D accelerators to deliver rays at frame rates high enough for interactive applications. How high? Early hardware dubbed CausticOne (that giant slab of silicon above) manages 3 – 5 frames-per-second in the demonstration video after the break. That’s not nearly enough for twitchy first-person shooters, but second-gen hardware due next year is looking to deliver 14 times that — plenty to get your high-reflectivity frag on.
Continue reading Get ready for another co-processor: further details on Caustic Graphics’s RTPU
Get ready for another co-processor: further details on Caustic Graphics’s RTPU originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This witty case mod was laser etched into the top of a 15” MacBook Pro by Dan Kurtz, using the Epilog Laser at the Squid Labs. Do you recognize the picture? It’s René Magritte’s The Son of Man, more or less.
You may be wondering why that PowerBook is so old, or why it’s a PowerBook at all. The picture was taken by Dan’s friend Steve Rhodes way back in 2006, when Mac users still had to actually shove the power cable inside their notebook. Shudder. It seems to filthy in these days of mag-safety. Still, the picture looks great.
Photo: Steve Rhodes/Flickr via Book of Joe
How to: incidentist/Flickr
The plan is to get Flash from every computer to every television screen, and Adobe’s ready to take the next step this week at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas. Broadcom, Comcast, STMicroelectronics, NXP Semiconductors, and Sigma Designs join Intel as set-top box makers with chipsets ready to stream widgets and HD video to connected televisions, while content is on the way from Netflix, New York Times, Disney and Atlantic Records. Of course, Yahoo’s widgets and Microsoft Silverlight aim to turn up the interactivity and streaming video to TVs and handhelds as well, though Adobe seems content to share with Yahoo! if need be — Vizio’s Connected HDTV demo and Intel’s CE 3100 support both — expect the blades to come out when Flash enabled hardware comes to market in the second half of this year.
[Via Venture Beat]
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Adobe Flash platform for HDTVs & connected devices on display at NAB originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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