While AMOLEDs have been used on mobile phones, Samsung showed a flexible prototype at a conference this week.

T&A: Looks like the interest in flexible displays has picked up a notch. Oled-Display.net released news of Samsung showing a 6.5-inch flexible AMOLED display prototype at Display Week 2009 in San Antonio, Texas. The event is organized by the Society for Information Display (SID). Unlike common AMOLED displays seen on mobile devices, this one’s flexible like paper.

The prototype used new process technology that does not require low temperatures to be produced. The best part is that this new process now makes it more cost-effective than other competing prototypes.

The flexible AMOLED has humongous potential of course, where it can be used as electronic paper, newspaper and so on. The response time for the prototype is more than 1000 times faster than a standard LCD panel. Oled-Display.net also has a link detailing what exactly makes up an AMOLED and AMOLED-based devices already out in the market.

Singapore is chosen by Nokia as one of the 9 countries at launch to have a dedicated Ovi Store.

CORP TALK: Nokia has made available its Ovi Store to an estimated 50 million Nokia device owners worldwide. This includes those who would eventually own the Finnish company’s upcoming flagship smartphone, the Nokia N97. 

Customers can visit store.ovi.com via their Nokia device browser to download, personalize and make their devices smarter and more fun with apps, games, videos, podcasts, productivity tools, Web and location-based services. In some countries, customers can update their Nokia devices with the Ovi Store mobile app by selecting the Ovi store icon in the Download! folder.

The mobile client is available in English, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, and supports operator billing in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Nokia has plans to add countries, languages, devices and features within the year. (more…)

SHOWCASE: Ultra cool and super-thin notebooks seem to be the rave among the media in Malaysia and Indonesia over the past week as both Dell and Taiwan-based component/consumer electronics manufacturer MSI launch their versions of slim notebooks to the media. Dell introduced the Adamo notebook of course, while MSI launched their X-Slim notebook.

You can check out our review of the Dell Adamo here (and our last post on the Adamo here) and a preview of the MSI X-Slim X340 notebook here including specifications. The other MSI X-Slim notebooks being launched (for Malaysia at least) also include the X320, X400 and X600.

The HWM Malaysia and HWM Indonesia teams were able to send us photos of the two separate event launches in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta respectively. Check it out:

SHOWCASE: The editorial teams behind HWM Singapore, HardwareZone.com and GameAxis came together once again on May 16 to organize and play hosts to readers and tech consumers in their 3rd PlayTest event, held at the level 2 auditorium of their office premises.

PlayTest was conceptualized as a precursor to some of the IT shows and bazaars held at some of the main convention halls in Singapore. This means that consumers can visit PlayTest to meet the editors and writers of their favorite tech media publications and ask for their views and opinions on what they should consider when buying computers (like processors and storage), consumer electronics (like HDTVs, cameras and printers) or communication devices (like routers or phones).

While the first two PlayTest events were mainly product showcases, the third one had a photography theme attached to it where attendees had to visit every booth and attempt different photography and photo-editing tasks. There were also talks given by Epicenter (on iPhoto and iMovie), Olympus, Intel and MediaFreaks, a digital animation company.

For a full review and photos of the event, check out the coverage on HardwareZone.com here.

Meanwhile, here’s a video with some highlights from the event:

The popular Flip-branded video cameras are compact, hip and affordable, especially the Flip MinoHD (4GB memory), which costs only US$230 but shoots 1280 x 720 H.264 videos.

CORP TALK: Cisco Systems Inc. has completed its purchase of San Francisco-based Pure Digital Technologies Inc., creator of the best-selling Flip Video brand. The acquisition is a key part of Cisco’s strategy to expand into the media-enabled home and capture the consumer market transition to visual-based networking.

Pure Digital’s Flip Video cameras has sold more than 2 million units worldwide as the devices, which are based around CMOS image sensors and feature fixed lenses, built-in flash memory and priced from US$130 and up, helps make video simple, accessible and fun.

All Flip Video products come with FlipShare, a software that lets users organize and edit videos, then share them instantly on YouTube, MySpace and other popular sharing Web sites. (more…)