{"id":11458,"date":"2010-07-26T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2010\/07\/26\/htc-announces-super-lcd-replacements-for-some-current-amoled-screens\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:42:00","slug":"htc-announces-super-lcd-replacements-for-some-current-amoled-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=11458","title":{"rendered":"HTC Announces Super LCD Replacements for Some Current AMOLED Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" class=\"wlDisabledImage\" title=\"A bare, disconnected touchscreen display...\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A bare, disconnected touchscreen display...\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/screen_replacement.jpg\" width=\"264\" height=\"220\" \/>Many of HTC\u2019s current smartphone models feature <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Active-matrix_OLED\">AMOLED displays<\/a>, a type of screen technology often touted as the best available for mobile devices. AMOLED has its critics, but the most frequent complaint leveled against it \u2013 particularly of late &#8211; concerns supply shortages. It seems Samsung (the primary manufacturer of the AMOLED screens) has been unable to churn out enough of the displays for HTC to manufacture desired quantities of <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/smartphone\/android\/att\/htc_desire.htm\">Desire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/smartphone\/android\/nexus_one.htm\">Nexus One<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/smartphone\/android\/verizon\/htc_incredible.htm\">Droid Incredible<\/a> smartphones, sometimes resulting in long delays for the consumer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In order to combat this problem, HTC announced today what many have long suspected: that it will transition from AMOLED to Super LCD displays in some of their smartphones, namely the Desire and Nexus One.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Super LCD, or SLCD, displays have many of the advantages of AMOLED, and even trumps AMOLED in some utility comparisons such as viewability in direct sunlight.&#160; HTC also claims new SLCD displays have \u201capproximately five times better power management\u201d than older LCD technology, which should at least mitigate AMOLED\u2019s biggest advantage: battery life.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">HTC will release SLCD versions of the Nexus One and Desire \u201clater this summer.\u201d&#160; There was no mention of the Droid Incredible, whose AMOLED screen has reportedly been responsible for frequent shortages of the smartphone since its April 2010 release.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of HTC\u2019s current smartphone models feature AMOLED displays, a type of screen technology often touted as the best available for mobile devices. AMOLED has its critics, but the most frequent complaint leveled against it \u2013 particularly of late &#8211; concerns supply shortages. It seems Samsung (the primary manufacturer of the AMOLED screens) has been [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=11458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}