Samsung’s OLED production division has been in the news a lot over the last few weeks – its supply shortages have motivated HTC to ditch its AMOLED technology. Pantech, number 3 vendor in Korea, now follows suite.
Korea Herald reports the following:
Pantech, Korea’s No. 3 handset maker, will not use AM-OLED displays in its new smartphones to be launched in the first half of next year because of a shortage of the component, an executive told The Korea Herald.
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He said Samsung Mobile Display, the sole supplier of AM-OLEDs, is not even able to keep up with demand from Samsung Electronics, its parent company, because of limited capacity, combined with surging demand
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Given that the latest batch of AMOLED displays has an uneven pixel pitch (making them not ideal for business applications), I don’t see too much an issue with this.
P.S. Keep in mind that all kinds of OLED displays failed to play out a significant advantage against high-quality LCD displays in our testing…
Image: Samsung Wave, with AMOLED display
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