AMOLED vs SLCD screens

by Chris Moor
tagged amoled, desire, display, HTC, screens, slcd

Some say that the screen quality and type is one of the most important things in a mobile device. I am not one to argue with that statement. The screen is almost everything on a phone. If you have a sub-par screen, then you will (ultimately) have a sub-par experience.

As some of you may know, HTC has switched from Samsung’s AMOLED screens to Sony’s SLCD screens. The question that is on everyone’s mind is if the switch will hurt or help devices like the HTC Incredible and the HTC Desire. Thanks to the guys over at Engadget, we will finally know. They have put up a comparison of the HTC Desire with an AMOLED screen and a SLCD screen. Hit up the source link to find out for yourself if the switch is for the better, or just plain bad.

[via Engadget]

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Comments

Luis Bruno

This is totally stupid what HTC did……to change from amoled to Slcd, what an idiots……making nice phones and covering with trash on tap, they should stay with the amoled instead or at least try to put the new SAMOLED
curse

@Luis Bruno
they had the option not to get any phones at all out because of shortage of AMOLED screens or get some other screen, I guess they couldn’t get enough SAMOLED either so they went with what they could get, SLCD.
Brad

This was certainly a bad move by HTC. I just received a replacement Droid Incredible after breaking the screen on my first one. My prior Droid had the AMOLED screen, the new one has SLCD. The AMOLED screen was quite noticeably sharper.
Aidan

The SLCD is undoubtedly sharper. I have the two phones here side by side and when you look closely, the amoled had black dots between the pixels, the SLCD smooths over them so everything renders better. Whites show up very poorly in comparison on the AMOLED
pete

I am also an SLCD convert after seeing the difference. As an added bonus you wont suffer the AMOLED plasma-style burn-in of long running images such as in the clock and notification icons at the top.
Tim

Firstly, HTC didn’t have a choice really. There has been a shortage in the AMOLED displays which forced them to switch to S-LCD. Apparently the manufacturers are beefing up their operation to keep up with demand for the AMOLED displays. Hopefully this means HTC can switch back to the AMOLED.

Secondly: @pete

Seriously, you would need to have your display running constantly for a very long time to experience burn-in. Solution: screen time-out.
steve

@Tim

Seriously, not true. even with screen timeout, expect screen burn-in on a Super AMOLED well before your contract runs out.
Tim

@Steve

Can you explain to me how? I was under the impression that an image had to be shown for an extended period for burn-in to occur?