Our UK friends will have the new range of OLED touch Walkman by Sony, because pre-orders began on Amazon UK. The X Series version will be 16GB (NWZ-X1050B) and 32GB (NWZ-X1060B), and delivery times ranging from 15 days to 5 weeks. The 16GB and 32GB models are priced at £214 and £283.

The OLED technology has been much talked about last months and all manufacturers appropriate it slowly. The latest OLED HDTV is from Sony, with its impressive XEL-1. Only 3 millimeters of thickness and 11 inches diagonally, but a contrast amounting to 1,000,000:1 – for deeper blacks and brighter whites – and up to 40% of energy consumption less than LCD HDTVs. Price of this jewel: $3,300.

In 2005, Samsung had shown an OLED screen of 40″, but it does not support HD and the contrast ratio remained stationed around 5,000:1. The new 40″ Samsung OLED is only 8.9mm thick and features deserve two seconds of attention.

The prototype displays FullHD 1080p resolution and a contrast ratio to make scream specialists “in sham” and marketing departments “but not” of 1,000,000:1.

It displays 107% of color of the NTSC standard (which must miss colors, apparently) and a brightness of 200cd/m2 (Max 600cd/m2).

Unfortunately, Samsung is quick to clarify that its production lines for OLED displays can not exceed 31-inch of diagonal, but their road map normally provides yet for 2010. Suddenly, you start to perhaps thinking about changing your Home Theater …