Super AMOLED Plus

Samsung's Super AMOLED Plus displays are an upgrade to the company's first generation Super AMOLED. Samsung claims that the new displays have 50% more sub-pixels, and also feature improvements in contrast and outdoor readability. Super AMOLED Plus was announced in CES 2011, together with the first phone to sport these displays - the Infuse 4G. The display is a 4.5" one, the largest AMOLED Samsung ever made.

Back in July 2010, Samsung announced that they plan to soon double their AMOLED displays' efficiency, lifetime and power consumption. Perhaps the Super AMOLED Plus is the result of that research, we are not sure.

The original Super-AMOLED displays featured an integrated touch function over a regular AMOLED. Samsung has placed a touch-sensor (on-cell) over the display and made it evaporate. The thickness of the touch sensor is just 0.001mm (!) this allows the screen to provide better images and to have great visibility even in direct sunlight (Samsung says that they perform 20% better than regular touch AMOLED outdoors). Super-AMOLEDs also have better lifetime than regular AMOLED and are very responsive to touch. Super-AMOLED have been announced in January 2010 and are used in Samsung's very successful Galaxy-S family of smart phones (Samsung sold more than 10 million units in 2010 alone!).

Super AMOLED "1" explained and some cool videos

Here's a nice video interview with a Samsung employee that explains how Super-AMOLEDs "1" work and why they are the best displays around:

Here's a video comparing the Super-AMOLED 1 to the iPhone's LCD. Check out the great contrast ratio and viewing angles:

And finally here you can see how the Super-AMOLED behaves in direct sun: