Samsung Integrated Touchscreen AMOLED Panels Coming in March

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Samsung might not be the number one cell phone maker out there but it’s definitely a huge company with a lot of potential. To prove that Samsung will be ready to start making the first integrated touchscreen AMOLED panels in the world in March. Said panels will definitely be very useful in upcoming touch-friendly phones and we should see them soon equip various models.

Samsung Mobile Display is apparently working on the new and very impressive technology. The new 3.3-inch touch-embedded AMOLED panels coming next month could equip a plethora of touchscreen phones not only from Samsung but other manufacturers too. Once produced the panels could be used for the next-gen compact cameras too and thus replace regular non-touch LCD screens currently found on most point-and-shoot digital cameras.

Do we really need this new technology? Well we could definitely use brighter panels for our phones so why not go for devices sporting AMOLED displays with embedded touch sensors instead of the regular screens we have now? The same thing goes for digital cameras too.

The new panels employ .001 mm thin touch sensors on-cell on a 3.3-inch AMOLED display. The sensors are placed between the substrate and the polarizer film on the bottom. That sounds awfully complicated but regular smartphone and compact camera users should know that once we start using these new panels there’s no need for any glass panel on top of the display anymore.

Naturally this new technology will not be immediately available to the masses. And in case the masses will want to get it, we can expect them to be willing to pay just a little more for touch-embedded AMOLED touchscreen displays than for regular ones. That means that the first smartphones and cameras coming with such new displays should be rather premium devices capable to offer lots of other different features.

While compact cameras with touchscreen displays are not necessarily a must, smartphones with better touchscreens are definitely going to be in fashion. And with Samsung’s bada OS and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7 coming out soon we might see handset makers create just the premium smartphones we expect them to make later this year. Those high-end smartphones could all use this new AMOLED touchscreen display wizardry. In case Google is watching then maybe a future Android phone from the Nexus family could also wear one of these new screens!