Thursday, January 14th 2021

Samsung to Introduce OLED-Powered Laptops With Under-Display Webcam

Samsung this year aims to bring OLED panels in laptops closer to mainstream, with the company already announcing it would be scaling its OLED screens to serve the 13,3-16" diagonal-craving population with the best visual quality available. The company is apparently aiming to take this further by investing into under-display webcams, which would prevent machines from shipping with large top bezel designs engineered to accommodate them. It also skirts implementation of other, more exotic solutions such as the one found in the Huawei Matebook X Pro - where the webcam is located in a mechanical pop-up on the keyboard area, and mostly shows viewers the inside of your nostrils.

Samsung says that this under-display design should allow laptop makers to achieve up to 93 percent screen-to-body ratio for an immersive viewing experience. Do keep in mind that such a design was implemented only once in the industry in ZTE's Axon 20 smartphone, which incidentally featured diminished selfie camera and display quality due to it being under-display, which even led to resolution compromises on the area of the display that sits over the camera. The idea in ZTE's phone - and is the same for Samsung here - is that the segment of the OLED display that covers the camera will turn translucent whenever the optics are activated. In the ZTE phone, this resulted in clear quality compromises. We'll see if Samsung fares better. There is currently no time to market on such OLED panels, however.
Source: Sciencemint
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29 Comments on Samsung to Introduce OLED-Powered Laptops With Under-Display Webcam

#26
Sasqui
TheUn4seenOLED in a PC. Yay for people who only watch movies or play games, horrible for everyone else. My wife got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with the ridiculously expensive OLED screen. It had Excel's interface permanently burned after three weeks, after three months the screen was, for all intents and purposes, unusable. She usually works for at least 10 hours a day so it might last longer for others, but I'm sure a lot of OLED panels with burned Facebook interface will land on landfills.
It's like with glossy screens, all-glass smartphones and such. They look beautiful on store shelves and turn out to be horrible when you actually use them, but we all know most people buy with their eyes with no input from the brain.
That sucks. My Galaxy S7 suffered from burn in after about a year, but it's still quite useable. I've had a Galaxy S9 for over a year now and not a trace. LG and Samsung have continued to improve on OLED lifespan, so hopefully those stories will be a thing of the past.
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#27
TheUn4seen
SasquiThat sucks. My Galaxy S7 suffered from burn in after about a year, but it's still quite useable. I've had a Galaxy S9 for over a year now and not a trace. LG and Samsung have continued to improve on OLED lifespan, so hopefully those stories will be a thing of the past.
They made improvements, no doubt about that. My Galaxy Note 4 had very visible burn-in in the keyboard area after a few months (I write a lot of emails on the phone), not to mention overall loss of brightness. With the similarly used Note 10+ there are only faint shadows on gray backgrounds. But, with PCs, especially ones used for work, there are a lot of very static elements displayed for hours every day. Even with mitigations like pixel shifting you can't really expect the screen to have a long lifespan, maybe that's why Samsung wants to put them on "lifestyle" type devices which will not only see less usage, but also probably much more dynamic one, like watching videos or casual gaming.
Personally I would rather see micro-LED type screens, but they're more than likely a few years away from consumer market.
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#28
Sasqui
TheUn4seenThey made improvements, no doubt about that. My Galaxy Note 4 had very visible burn-in in the keyboard area after a few months (I write a lot of emails on the phone), not to mention overall loss of brightness. With the similarly used Note 10+ there are only faint shadows on gray backgrounds. But, with PCs, especially ones used for work, there are a lot of very static elements displayed for hours every day. Even with mitigations like pixel shifting you can't really expect the screen to have a long lifespan, maybe that's why Samsung wants to put them on "lifestyle" type devices which will not only see less usage, but also probably much more dynamic one, like watching videos or casual gaming.
Personally I would rather see micro-LED type screens, but they're more than likely a few years away from consumer market.
Both LG and Samsung as well as others are focusing a lot more on OLED laptop displays this past quarter, as the cost to produce panels continues to drop. And emiiter chemistry is constantly being worked on. The holy grail is are long life blue emitters. Samsung is rumored to be working on a TV with a blue OLED backlight and quantum dots to convert the blue into other colors. But nothing yet.
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#29
ThrashZone
Hi,
Nothing like a webcam that looks up your nose maybe spot covid signs :cool:
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