HTC To Switch AMOLED Phones To LCD Displays?

on 06/26/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

Some interesting news regarding HTC and its upcoming batch of mobile phones has surfaced. Turns out that the Taiwanese company will be switching many, if not all, of its mobile phones that use AMOLED displays to LCDs due to a supply shortage at Samsung. To make matters worse, Samsung is using much of the available AMOLED supply for its own Galaxy S mobile phone, which doesn’t leave HTC with much choice but to source for alternative solutions. As it stands, the HTC Desire, Droid Incredible, and Nexus One will be switching to Sony’s high-grade Super TFT LCD, which hopefully will be good enough to dampen any perceived loss in quality. Such a situation would also explain why Apple was reluctant to use an AMOLED display for its iPhone 4, sticking to an IPS-based LCD instead. Do you care whether the display on your mobile phone is an AMOLED or LCD?

AMOLED: stands for Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode, is a display technology in which an electro-luminescent organic compound (organic=contains Carbon) is used to light up pixels. Active Matrix refers to a technique to control the pixels and sub-pixels (RGB components) state which was introduced in the mid-70s. Active Matrix is used with many kinds of displays, but the most famous are TFT LCD and AMOLED.

Apple Inc: Apple Inc was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne as a computer company wich is often credited to have initiated personal computing. After a meteoric rise in the 80s, Apple had lost the personal computing battle against Microsoft and others in the 90s. But in the late 90s and early 2000s, the company came back to profitability by focusing on less products and started using industry-standard components. Apple's largest business is now in the smartphone space, with the iPhone representing more than half of the revenues and an even larger part of the profits. Read our Apple product reviews to see what the company has been up to: iPhone 5 Review, Macbook Pro with Retina display review

HTC: High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones and tablets. The company started as an ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) that was building devices for others, but went on making HTC-branded smartphones based mostly on Microsoft's Windows operating system (OS) for mobile. In 2009, it began to shift its core focus away from Windows mobile devices to Android-based ones. In 2010 the company went back to the Windows Phone eco-system.

Samsung: Samsung is a South-Korean conglomerate which counts many subsidiaries like Samsung Electronics, which you probably know very well, but also Samsung Heavy Industries which builds ships, or Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Securities and many more. Samsung is responsible for an amazing 20% of South Korea's exports. In the consumer electronics world, Samsung has gone from being a company with a reputation for cheap products to becoming one of the most respected companies in the world.

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