OLED screens have always been a special area of interest for yours truly – a few years ago, they were considered a “silver bullet” for all issues which plagued the industry back then.
HTC has since started to deploy OLED technology on many devices. AndroidCommunity now reports supply problems:
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HTC has plans to keep using the AMOLED technology from Samsung, but they are also going to use Sony’s Super TFT LCD displays as well. According to HTC, there is no discernible difference between the displays from Sony and Samsung, and they are expecting the differences to slide under the radar.
But, they obviously need to tell customers about the difference. Unfortunately, there’s no word on how they plan on doing this, as the details haven’t been quite worked out yet.
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Given that Samsung is currently running an extremely aggressive promotion for its bada platform, the company could very well be interested in limiting display stock to a competitor…
P.S. I have to admit that I am not too impressed with Samsung’s Super AMOLED technology, as it suffers from the dreaded “uneven pixel size” issue which leads to “boxy” images. Furthermore, good LCD systems can easily compete with OLED’s – look at the images in the two tests below:
Nokia N85 – OLED screen test
Nokia N86 – OLED screen test
P.S.2 Having one device with screens from two different manufacturers is not too uncommon. Palm did it with its entire HVGA lineup…
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Hi Tam – I wonder if a lot of these issues keep coming up because of the race for new product launches. With news of the iPhone 4 antennae not letting you hold it in your left hand it makes you wonder how much work is going into testing these phones before they put them on the market. Apple fanboys will buy the newest products regardless, but i shutter to think that you would buy a new series of phone for managing mobile communications for your mobile workforce only to find out that they have these problems.
A single phone for a customer is one thing, but having to return a dozen or more would be a huge problem for a business with a team of field reps or sales reps who wanted to communicate with each other. Seems mobile messaging is the one area where reliability will always be regarding business communications. Oh well! Please excuse the rant and thanks for your blog, it’s the first time I’ve seen it. I plan on checking it out regularly.