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Techradar.com: Organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays are the best bet to replace LCD screens in the years ahead – if it wasn’t for their habit of fading and colour-shifting after just a few thousand hours.

But last week Kodak announced that it has succeeded in making a new type of OLED – the snappily-monikered “Kodak OLED Material EK-GD403″ – with a lifetime of over 65,000 hours.

OLEDs contain special organic thin-film materials that emit light when stimulated by an electrical charge, with no need for a backlight. This means they are much more power-efficient and lighter than today’s liquid crystal displays.

OLEDs are viewable across almost 180-degrees and don’t suffer from motion blur like most LCD screens. The new material uses ‘green dopant’ technology to boost lifetime, luminance and efficiency.

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Techradar.com: Kodak has announced the arrival of a world’s first in the imaging world – a digital picture frame that uses OLED technology.

Set to debut at this year’s Photokina, the frame boasts “greater colour depth and saturation than other displays, on panels that are substantially thinner, resulting in a sleek, low-profile design.”

Not only has Kodak utilised OLED tech for its picture holder, it’s also added Wi-Fi connectivity, so you can have an endless amount of pics of your romantic trip abroad streamed straight to the devices.

If you want to just use the frames 2GB of in-built memory, you will still be able to show around 10,000 images.

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SlashGear: Kodak has opted to use Chi Mei EL OLED displays in their digital photo frames.

In fact, the 7.6-inch OLED displays, made by CMEL, which is owned by the standard LCD maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics, will begin to enter production in September.

This should provide plenty of time for the completed displays to be delivered to Kodak and to prep for the much anticipated holiday season.

And even though digital photo frames run the gamut of price ranges, these OLED offerings are thought to be quite pricey.

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Electricpig: Check out Motorola’s brand new ZN5 handset. It’s not just a phone, it’s the closest you’ll get to a Kodak camera and mobile in one. Inside is a 5 megapixel camera, fancy software and integration with the Big K’s online services.

The mobile’s full name is the Motozine ZN5, and it’s a fairly standard issue candybar phone. What’s impressive though, is the software.

Leaning heavily on the imaging abilities of Kodak, the ZN5 packs image stitching (for easy panoramas), Kodak Easyshare software to offload pictures to a PC without any trouble, and one-touch uploads to the Kodak Gallery service.

There’s Wi-Fi built in too, so shovelling shots to the web is a speedy process, and the phone’s keypad will illuminate in different ways, depending which mode it’s in.

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Electricpig: Photo frames were the boom product of last year. The latest picture frames from Kodak are actually multimedia playback devices with speakers for playing MP3s, high-def screens and a new touch sensitive border a little like the iPod touch.

The M820 and M1020 offer 8-inch and 10-inch screens with HD resolution and memory card slots for loading and storing JPEGS just like a normal photo viewer. But they also have speakers for audio playback and a Quick Touch Border that allows you to zip through files by swiping your finger along it.

It looks pretty swish in white, but you can choose from Cranberry Red and silver as well, or buy one of Kodak’s fancy Digital Frame Faceplates to clip on the front. The picture frame genre is evolving…

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