All AMOLED screen phones at one page: A complete guide

Author's own blog: Irnovo

This article intends to cover three things: amoled screen technology review, current amoled screen phones on the market, and upcoming mobile phones with the same display type.

So, let us start with the brief review of amoled display technology and its comparison

with tft, led, and oled.

Thanks to the continuous efforts of researchers to provide us the top-notches every coming year, we have travelled countless distance in very short period from

cathode ray tube CRT type of displays to flexible displays. The real pick-me-up

for display technology was the development of transistor, which made possible thin

film transistor TFT displays. You experienced many phones with TFT displays. If

I am writing about amoled screen phones, it does not mean that TFT has become an

old or out-dated technology. Probably, you may be still using TFT screen phones

because these are not out of seen.Then we saw the evolution of LED, then OLED phones. Now AMOLED screen is beating other technologies.

Amoled screen is Just OLED with active matrix. Yes, OLED is the acronym of organic light emitting diode but if it contains of active matrix, as a component of the screen then it becomes active matrix light emitting diode. I do not want to bother you by being technical because you may be interesting in the gadgets that have amoled display rather than the display structure itself. Nevertheless, I just want to clarify that there is something special in amoled display technology that is forcing the manufacturers to adopt it in most of the future devices.

The first and the foremost important thing is the battery life of phone. The big touch screens consume most part of a fully charged battery itself. With the use of active matrix, this new technology needs very less power to deliver more vivacious and full of life display.

Samsung is clearly leading the industry in this technology and actually more than 90 percent of the devices are from Samsung. Prototypes of rather big AMOLED have been shown at various Expos but no commercial preparation yet. Although, LG have produced 15 inch extremely thin amoled TV, but it is sold only in Korea.

· High refresh rates

· Low power consumption, I must say very low power consumption.

· Very thin displays

· Flexible displays for future by this technology.

· High contrast

· Wide viewing angle displays

Are some of the notable distinctions of this technology.

AMOLED displays may be hard to view in direct sunlight compared to LCD displays. However, Samsung’s Super AMOLED technology addresses this issue by reducing the size of gaps between layers of the screen.

Let’s move towards the phones with this technology. I have categorized all the phones into, available, upcoming, and rumored only phones. I am not going to stuff this page with all the properties of each phone because that will make this page a long one. Therefore, I have tried to give you a glimpse of the phone in terms of display type and size, internal memory (off course memory, in most cases, is easily expandable to 16 or 32 GB), camera and video properties, and operating system of the phone. I have provided external links for each phone to get detailed analysis of other properties.

·         Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen 16M colors

·         480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches

·         Internal 8 GB/16GB storage,

·         512 MB RAM, 2GB ROM

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus

·         Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)

·         CPU ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor

·         AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

·         360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches

·         16 GB storage, 256MB RAM, 512 MB ROM

·         12 MP, 4000x3000 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash

·         Symbian^3 OS

·         Video 720p@25fps

·         AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

·         360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches

·         8 GB storage, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB ROM

·         8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, fixed focus, dual-LED flash

·         Video  720p@25fps, video stabilization.

·         Symbian^3 OS

·         Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors  

·         480 x 800 pixels, 3.3 inches

·         1.5 GB system storage, 390 MB user available storage

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

·         Bada OS

·         AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

·         480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches

·         576 MB RAM; 512 MB ROM

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

·         Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair) upgradable to Android 2.2 (Froyo)

·         AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

·         480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches

·         512MB RAM, 512MB ROM

·         5 MP, 2560х1920 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

·         Video  D1 (720x480 pixels)@min. 20fps

·         Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)

·         Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

·         480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches

·         16GB storage, 512 MB RAM

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus

·         720p@30fps

·         Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)

·         AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 16M colors  

·         480 x 800 pixels, 3.1 inches

·         Internal memory 2GB / 8GB

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash

·         Yes, D1(720x480)@30fps, QVGA slo-mo video recording

·         Qualcomm MSM6246, 800Mhz processor

· AMOLED, 16M colors

· 240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches

· 8 GB storage, 128 MB RAM

· 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, wide 28mm Carl Zeiss lens, autofocus, dual LED flash

· Symbian OS v9.3, S60 rel. 3.2 CPU ARM 11 434 MHz processor

· AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

· 360 x 640 pixels, 3.7 inches

· 8 GB/16 GB storage, 256 MB RAM

· 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

· HD 720p@24fps, D1 (720x480 pixels)@30fps,  slow-mo video recording

· Symbian OS v9.4 Series 60 rel. 5

· CPU ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics

·         Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

·         480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches

·         16GB storage, 512 MB RAM

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus

·         720p@30fps

·         Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)

·          CPU ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor

·         AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 16M colors (65K effective colors)

·         480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches

·         2/8/16 GB storage, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash

·         720x480@30fps

·         Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional,

·         Upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5/6.5.3

·          CPU Samsung S3C6410 800MHz processor

·         devoted graphics accelerator

·         AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors (65K effective)

·         320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

·         Android OS, v1.5 (Cupcake)

·         Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz processor

· AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 16M colors

· 480 x 800 pixels, 3.1 inches

· 12 MP, wide 28mm lens, autofocus, xenon flash, LED flash

· Video D1(720x480)@30fps, QVGA@120fps

· Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

· 480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches

· 16 GB storage, 512MB ROM, 384MB RAM

· 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

· 720p@30fps, video light

· Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair) CPU 720 MHz processor

·         Mind it, this phone won’t work with GSM network.

·         AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

·         480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches

·         8 GB storage

·         8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

·         Android OS v2.1 (Eclair)

·         CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 1 GHz processor

· AKA Samsung S8300 Tocco Ultra Edition and Samsung Player Ultra

· AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

· 240 x 400 pixels, 2.8 inches

· 80 MB storage

· 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

· CPU Qualcomm MSM6281, 500Mhz processor

·         Mind it, this phone won’t work with GSM network.

·         Also known as Samsung Galaxy S Pro For Sprint

·         Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

·         480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches

·         512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

·         Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair)

·         ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor

· Also known as Acer Liquid Stream

· AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

· 480 x 800 pixels, 3.7 inches

· 2GB storage, 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM

· 5 MP, 2560х1920 pixels, autofocus

· 720p@24fps

· Android OS, v2.1 (Eclair), upgradable

· CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 1 GHz processor

·         Also known as Samsung QWERTY.

·         AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 16M colors (65K effective)

·         800 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches

·         5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

·         720x480@30fps (D1)

·         Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional

·         Upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5

·         CPU Samsung S3C6410 800MHz processor, dedicated graphics accelerator

· AMOLED, 56K colors !

· 240 x 400 pixels, 2.8 inches - External display

· 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

· Video Yes, VGA! @30fps

· NO 3G!

·         Mind it, this phone won’t work with GSM network.

·         AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

·         480 x 800 pixels, 3.3 inches

·         165 MB storage

·         3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash

· AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 256K colors (65K effective colors)

· 320 x 240 pixels, 2.5 inches - QWERTY keyboard

· 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM

· 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus

· Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional

· CPU Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor

· AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors

· 240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches

· 190 MB storage

· 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, flash

·         AMOLED capacitive touch screen, 16M colors

·         480 x 800 pixels, 3.5 inches - 3D user interface

·         5 MP, 2560 x 1920 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

·         Video HD 720p@30fps

·         LiMo OS

·         CPU ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics

· AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors (65K effective) only!

· 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches

· 200 MB storage

· 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

· Android OS, v1.5 (Cupcake)

· AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 256K colors

· 240 x 400 pixels, 2.8 inches - Scratch-resistant surface

· 5 MP, 2560х1920 pixels, autofocus

· No GSM functionality

· AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

· 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches

· 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, LED flash

· Android OS, v1.5 (Cupcake), upgradable

· CPU 800MHz processor

· AMOLED, 256K colors

· 240 x 320 pixels, 2.2 inches - Secondary external display

· 22 MB storage

· 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

· No GSM functionality

· AMOLED resistive touchscreen, 256K colors

· 480 x 800 pixels, 3.1 inches

· 256 MB RAM

· 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, LED flash

I am just giving you a model names with some homework in form of links to find detailed properties for each model . Don't mind this little homework if you are interested to see future!

• Nokia
  E7
• Samsung
  I8700 Omnia 7
• Nokia
  C6-01
• Samsung
  Focus
• Samsung
  M130K Galaxy K
• Samsung
  Fascinate
• Samsung
  Mesmerize i500
• Samsung
  M130L Galaxy U
• LG
  GW910
• Toshiba
  K01
• Motorola
  A1680
• Pantech
  Laser

• Samsung
  I909 Galaxy S
• Dell
  Thunder
• Samsung
  Galaxy Q
• Samsung
  M8920
• Vodafone
  360 H2

Amoled technology is fully capable of delivering unbreakable and flexible screens. Actually, these kinds of screens have already been displayed at several expos. Samsung have almost poineered in this technology and, in the not-very-distant future, we can hope to have rollable and unbreakble displays commercially prepared for us.