Hate to say it, but passive matrix OLEDs are now a thing of the past. At this year's CES 2011, Samsung showed off what they can do with their AMOLED displays in Las Vegas. Not only are they more environment friendly, consume less energy than their OLED counterparts, the displays are rollable, bendable and can even survive impacts from a hammer. Check out the video below by the folks over at IntoMobile below…

It was no surprise to see Google finally confirm their 4G G-Slate tab device at the CES, though for me the unexpected was that it would come from LG and that their new version of Android would be designed chiefly for tablets in mind.

The T-Mobile G-Slate will be among the first 4G tablets to fully benefit from the tablet-optimized Android 3.0 platform, which was designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes and addresses the unique aspects of tablet use cases and form factors. The Honeycomb user experience improves on Android favorites such as widgets, multi-tasking, browsing, notifications and customization. It will also feature the latest Google Mobile innovations including Google Maps™ 5.0 with 3D interaction, collection of more than 3 million eBooks and Google Talk™ with video and voice chat.

As you will see in the official videos below, latest Android 3.0 comes with fluid home screens, improved app switching, browser tabs, video chat, dynamic app shortcuts and new versions of Google's Android applications will take advantage of the bigger screen.

At the moment, the LG G-Slate's spec is still very much so undisclosed but no doubt, the device will have an HSPA+ radio (making it 4G according to T-Mobile's standards), definitely front facing camera for video calling with Google Talk and almost 99% a decent camera round the backend for photos. Check out the short clips below…

[via Hardware Sphere, BGR]

Motorola has a new phone on the market for purchase, the new CLIQ 2. The phone boasts Motoblur user interface on top of its Android 2.2. The phone has a 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM, which is a decent combo for the phone's pricing.

If you haven't yet heard of Motoblur before, its like HTC Sense and merges all your Facebook, Twitter, contacts, calendar and emails all together so you can access your social life and multimedia all at once.

The display is a 3.7-inch 854�480 touchscreen with a slide out QWERTY keyboard from the side of the phone. The CLIQ 2 has a five megapixel camera with some nice features like auto focus and dual LED lights for flash. Also, the phone has GPS, a radio tuner, eCompass, Bluetooth connectivity and is of course WiFi ready. The CLIQ 2 Android smart phone will be released in January from T-Mobile and later from other companies.

The phone's battery life is strong with an almost eight hours of talk time and on standby the phone can last for a claimed 13 days.

[via iTechNews ]