This new 2.2-inch active matrix OLED screen by Samsung is being touted as the thinnest OLED display ever created for commercial use. Hell, the thinnest period. At an anorexic 0.53 mm thick, a piece of paper is barely competition for this screen.

Samsung plans to roll out the new screens over the next few months, providing them to mobile phone companies and other gadget producers. Samsung hopes for the OLED’s to be used in high-end mobile phones and media players. — Andrew Dobrow

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Developers are gonna love this. The Linux Trolltech Greenphone, complete with SDK tools is really more of a tool or a kit then a “phone” per se. Linux has advertised this phone as a tool for developers to create new software for mobile phones, but on a totally open source spectrum. Its $700 price tag confirms the point that this is more then your “typical” phone. The Greenphone isn’t exactly “user-friendly” either. Featuring hardware giltches and annoyances that would through any non-developer off into a hissy. If the Greenphone is going to be a long-term project, the kinks in the system will eventually be worked out, and might even become the standard for developers to work through. Who knows, maybe Linux might move further into the developer realm then they already are.

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