Samsung reportedly working on a 1080p Super AMOLED screen

The first 1080p smartphones are a reality and regardless of whether a 400+ ppi pixel density is great or overkill, the next generation of Android flagships will most probably feature FullHD screens.

The HTC J Butterfly is already official and it packs a 5" Super LCD3 screen with 1080p resolution (440ppi). There's also the Oppo Finder 5, which also promises 1080p resolution on a 5" screen.

Those seem to be the specs of choice as both LG and Sharp are making 5" 1080p displays. The Sony C660X 'Yuga' might have a 5" 1080p screen too, made by Japan Display (a merger between Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba).

MK News is reporting that Samsung is also working on a FullHD display, which will use the company's trademark Super AMOLED technology. It's too early to tell what kind of matrix they'll use (PenTile like on the Galaxy S III or full RGB like on the Note II) and how big the display will be (though it should have a pixel density of at least 400ppi, meaning 5" or bigger).

Pantech will also be joining on the 5" 1080p smartphone action, with both theirs and Samsung's and LG's expected some time in the first half of next year. It will be an interesting, tack-sharp battle next year it seems.

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First 1080p Android handset on the way to China

Oppo's Jelly Bean handset will boast a pixel density of 441 ppi

The world's first smartphone with a full HD screen resolution is coming to China.

The Oppo manufacturer recently announced the Find 5 device, which the company says will boast a 5-inch screen at 1920 x 1080p.

That would give the Find 5 an Retina Display-trouncing 441 pixels per inch (the iPhone 5 has 326 pixels per inch).

Quad-core and more

The rest of the spec-set is also pretty impressive. Oppo cites 2GB of RAM, a Qualcomm quad-core 1.5GHz processor and a 12-megapixel camera.

It's also lists the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi a/b/g/n.

As Android Central points out, the spec list does sound a little too good to be true, and it's unlikely that it'll ever reach western shores anyway.

Still, it's interesting to see that some manufacturers are looking to push the boundaries of mobile screen technology.

Source : http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/first-1080p-android-handset-on-the-way-to-china-1098040

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First 1080p Android handset on the way in China

Oppo's Jelly Bean handset will boast a pixel density of 441 ppi

The world's first smartphone with a full HD screen resolution is coming to China.

The Oppo manufacturer recently announced the Find 5 device, which the company says will boast a 5-inch screen at 1920 x 1080p.

That would give the Find 5 an Retina Display-trouncing 441 pixels per inch (the iPhone 5 has 326 pixels per inch).

Quad-core and more

The rest of the spec-set is also pretty impressive. Oppo cites 2GB of RAM, a Qualcomm quad-core 1.5GHz processor and a 12-megapixel camera.

It's also lists the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi a/b/g/n.

As Android Central points out, the spec list does sound a little too good to be true, and it's unlikely that it'll ever reach western shores anyway.

Still, it's interesting to see that some manufacturers are looking to push the boundaries of mobile screen technology.

Source : http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/first-1080p-android-handset-on-the-way-in-china-1098040

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Nokia fakes Lumia 920 PureView video, issues an apology for it

Yesterday, Nokia announced the Lumia 920 with a PureView camera, except here, PureView did not mean the pixel oversampling that we saw on the 808 PureView but rather the use of optical image stabilization to achieve steadier low light photos and videos.

To demonstrate this effect, Nokia released a video where they compared the effect of having and not having optical image stabilization side by side, the implication being that the video was shot on the new Lumia 920.

Turns out, that was not the case, as was later discovered by Pocketnow.com as well as The Verge, who found a reflection of a camera crew in a van using what was clearly a professional camera (or at least most definitely not the Lumia 920) to shoot the 'OIS ON' part of the video.

This meant that what we were supposed to believe was Nokia's super awesome optical image stabilization at work was just actually just a professional video camera.

Now we expect some amount of deception in advertisements but that's for fancy press images. While talking about sample images and video we expect them to be the actual content captured from the device otherwise it defeats the purpose, which is why it was a disappointment to see Nokia fiddle with that. Nokia should have let their brand new product do the talking instead of relying on a professional tool to make things look nicer. Or at least provide a warning in the video so we know what we are really looking at.

Fortunately, Nokia has been quick to issue an apology, saying that the video was not shot on the Lumia 920 but rather "simulated" to give an idea as to what OIS on the Lumia 920 would look like. They have also released another video and this time it actually is from the Lumia 920, they say.

The new video looks impressive and makes us wonder why Nokia didn't use the actual phone to shoot the previous video. Maybe it would not have been as stable as the professional camera but it'd have still looked good and more importantly, be truthful.

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Source : http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_fakes_lumia_920_pureview_video_issues_an_apology_for_it-news-4765.php

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