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When Samsung first announced the Wave (their first Bada-powered mobile phone) at the Mobile World Congress, something surprising happened. Basically, virtually everyone ignored the “Bada” bit of the phone, and focused on another feature, instead: the “Super AMOLED” screen. There’s a very good reason for that; it completely outshone any other screens on the market, and made the phone the first one in recorded history (note: recorded history… the Atlanteans could’ve beaten us to it 12,000 years ago) to actually be properly usable in direct sunlight.

And no-one could figure out what made Super AMOLED super. Fortunately, now, Samsung have come to our rescue, with a video explaining the technology (with no soundtrack, so don’t bother with speakers).

What, that’s it?? I expected something exciting and sci-fi, involving space pixies and lasers and probably quantum, not “we stuck the touch-sensitive bit inside the OLED panel, instead of gluing it on top”. That… that’s a bit of an anti-climax, to be honest. Still, at least we now know why the Samsung Wave’s screen relieves itself over the likes of the Samsung Omnia II. They injected the touchy bit of the screen into the screen, instead of sellotaping it on top, thus making it better, prettier, and thinner.

No. I’m sorry, I can’t go on knowing that. I need Super AMOLED screens to be more super than that. I need to involve quantum. I am vowing, right now, to forget I ever knew how the screen tech works, and we’ll never speak of it again.

So, yes, it appears that Super AMOLED screens are super because they’re powered by magical sparkling unicorns, and super quantum gamma rays, and nothing less, right…?

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