Samsung unveils see-through OLED laptop at CES

At the recent Consumer Electronics Show 2010, Samsung laptops wowed the room by unveiling a laptop that has a transparent OLED screen and can let up to 40% light through it from the background. Although it might not be fully practical in a laptop design a transparent OLED screen has applications elsewhere such as being embedded on to the wind-shield of your car allowing navigation to be overlayed on to the road ahead.

The current maximum transparency on other screens is only 25%, so bumping that up to 40% by Samsung is an impressive achievement.

The laptop used to demonstrate the screen is an unknown at the moment with no specs revealed about it.

Samsung R519 laptop hits the shelves

Cheap laptops seem to be getting cheaper, which is truly great news for consumers in the global recession.

And for £380, this is emphasised with the excellent new Samsung R519 laptop which hit the shelves recently. Apple Macbook it ain’t, but it does provide an awful lot of laptop for a low price.

Unlike most laptop deals, however, it provides a much more usable screen and user interface, decent office performance and an optical drive. If you’re in the market for a bargain-basement new laptop, then the Samsung R519 is a very decent choice.

Samsung to unveil OLED laptops in 12 months

Samsung OLED laptops could be on sale by this time next year – according to one of the South Korean giant’s top bosses.

Samsung was the first ever company to knock up an OLED laptop prototype (pictured) back in May last year, but now the time that OLED hits mainstream notebooks is drawing near. Acccording to Kyu Uhm, head of worldwide sales and marketing for Samsung Computing Division, a Samsung OLED laptop should hit shelves by 2010.

“Samsung is the largest OLED screen manufacturer. And as soon as it’s available commercially for laptops we will adopt it…Probably sometime Q3 next year,” he admitted.

Samsung is already creating OLED standard in its new touch phones, PMPs and even some cameras, but a Samsung OLED laptop would be a great addition to the market – and would arguably help reduce the prices of ordinary LCD laptops meaning happy laptop deals for customers.

Samsung unveils skinny X-Series laptops

Samsung have unveiled their new range of uber-cool laptops, set to hit the UK market this autumn.

The X520, X420 and X120 have high gloss, HD, 16:9 LED screens, 9 hours life on their 6-cell batteries and even a pound coin is thicker.

Each model features a silver chrome finish and high speed wireless LAN, Bluetooth 2.1, three USB 2.0 ports, HDMI port and a 3-in-1 memory card reader – plus an integrated webcam and 2 x 1.5W speakers.

The X120, X420 and X520 come in 11.6-inch, 14-inch and 15.6-inch screen sizes respectively and weigh 1.36kg, 1.76kg and 2.09kg. They each run on 2-4GB of RAM with integrated GPUs and you can opt for between 160-500GB of SATA storage.

Stay tuned to Laptopshop for all Samsung laptop deals when these beauties are released next month.