OLED shortage forces HTC to switch to LCD displays for its smartphones
JUL 27, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024533
Wired : Organic light-emitting diodes arrayed in an active matrix of transistor-controlled pixels provide smartphones with high-resolution, full-color displays without the need for a power-sapping backlight. Only three companies in the world make active-matrix OLED displays, which has caused supply problems for Taiwan-based smartphone manufacturer HTC. As Wired‘s Priya Ganapati reports, HTC has had to switch from using OLED displays to LCD displays, which, though brighter, consume more power.
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