HTC Droid Incredible to Change to SLCD Screens

By Chuong Nguyen on 09/13/2010, filed in Home > CellPhones

Smartphone maker HTC will be battling the unending unending AMOLED shortage by switching display technology on the Droid Incredible, offered on Verizon Wireless, to Super LCD screen technology, otherwise referred to as SLCD. Because of the AMOLED screen shortages, shipments of the Droid Incredible has been delayed and sold out multiple times. The switch to SLCD should happen sometime this month according to a leaked screenshot from a Verizon Wireless system.

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.

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.

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