Verizon has officially unveiled the Samsung Continuum today, with a release date of November 11th.
The new Samsung smartphone will be the first to include a secondary display, a small 400×96 AMOLED ticker that displays live news, weather, time and texts/emails/IMs.
A special sensor turns on the small ticker display when users grab the bottom of the phone.
The main hardware uses a 3.4-inch 800×480 Super AMOLED display while the phone runs on a 1GHz Hummingbird processor. The smartphone has 8GB of internal memory and a 5MP camera with HD recording.
Pricing starts at $199 with contract.
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Engadget has leaked four new Dell smartphones, Lightning, Thunder, Smoke and Flash, four high-end phones that will use Android or Windows Phone 7 as their operating systems.
First off is the Lightning:
The phones uses Windows Phone 7, has a large 4.1-inch OLED screen, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a full QWERTY keypad, 512MB RAM, 1GB ROM, 8GB of internal storage for music, movies, etc, a 5MP camera with LED flash, and Adobe Flash, DivX and Microsoft Silverlight support.
The phone will be available before Christmas for GSM carriers AT&T and T-Mobile.
Second is the Thunder:
The Thunder, which will also come out before Christmas and has a 4.1″ WVGA OLED display. The phone has a 8MP autofocus camera, runs Android 2.1 with a custom Dell UI on top, and will also be one of the first phones to have a built-in Hulu app. The phone will also have Swype, the speed texting input software. Flash 10 support is fully built-in as well.
Thirdly is the Dell Smoke:
The Smoke is a thin slider phone with a full QWERTY keypad, and will run Android 2.2, the first phone to have the upcoming firmware noted in its specs. The processor is a pretty powerful 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7230.
Additionally, the Smoke has a 5MP camera, 14.4Mbps HSPA support, a microSD slot, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi support and EDR. There is a second microphone for noise cancellation.
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TechOn is reporting today that large OLED panels should become available mainstream starting in 2010, with LG Display planning 20-inch displays for this year and 40-inch displays by 2012.
Says VP Won Kim, in charge of OLED Sales & Marketing at the firm: “They may be expensive, but it will be possible to buy a 40-inch class OLED TV in 2012.”
OLED displays offer superior quality to LED LCD displays, and can be as thin as a a few millimeters.
The current 15-inch OLED display offered by LG has a contrast ratio of 100,000:1 and “color reproducibility range of 98% of the NTSC standard.”
