Samsung’s New OLED Laptop to ‘WOW’ World and Your Lap

Samsung gets to market first with this new tech.

OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode in easier terms it means “Super skinny video screens that can basically wrap around your wrist.” So you can imagine how totally cool, and how totally useless your current netbook will be, when it starts to come out at a consumer level later in 2010:

Samsung says it aims to roll out this beauty with a 12.1-inch, 1280×768 AMOLED screen by the end of next year, and it might even be available as early as the third quarter.

Samsung SDI is the world’s largest OLED screen manufacturer, so it would be only natural for it to be first up with an OLED notebook. This will certainly be a premium item — nobody’s talking price, but we’re guessing this sexy lappie will probably cost at least US$5000. Fast forward five years, and OLED laptops will be commonplace … and cheap.

It seems new tech always costs alot when it comes out but within 24 months its dirt cheap. But keep your eyes open for more OLED devices coming out from Samsung before this one does.

Here’s a 4-minute video from CES 2009 that will open your mind to the possibilities that OLED will be bringing to our gadgets:

More OLED Articles Around the Web:

• First OLED Laptops Could Arrive Next Year and Burn Holes in Wallets [Oled] (gizmodo.com)
• Samsung expecting OLED laptops in Q3 2010 (engadget.com)
• Cheaper Big-Screen OLEDs (technologyreview.com)