I know how OLEDs and LCDs work. There was a test done on the N1 screen and it did not perform how they should in theory. I'm not disagreeing that normally, OLEDs are better than LCDs, but currently the OLED display in the N1 vs the LCD in the Droid is not better.
I would post the link but I have posted it several times and I'd rather not search my posts again to link it again so nobody will read it again lol.
From what I read the OLED screen in the N1 is poor excuse for an OLED screen and the Droid's LCD is very nice.
I'm not aware of the link you've posted previously. But I consider
DisplayMate's testing of the N1 to be the most comprehensive and scientific. It does point out some inefficiencies in the N1's power consumption. However, while the results indicate the display's power usage is "relatively high" for OLED technology, it is never stated to be worse than LCD. If you have a link to testing that disputes this, I'd be grateful for the opportunity to see it.
It's also important to consider the fact that while the AMOLED display is almost certainly the same Samsung display used in the N1 (not their best, but not "cheap" either as junpar suggests), the Incredible is not the N1. DisplayMate considers many of the color and power consumption issues with the N1's display to be software and set-up related, not hardware:
"The Nexus One OLED display has many spectacular qualities, but it is also loaded with lots of rough edges, hasty unfinished beta display drivers and Android software including principal applications like the Browser and Gallery, poorly implemented image processing, poor system integration together with sub-standard factory display calibration."
It's well-known that HTC made deeper OS modifications to the Incredible and they and Samsung may now have had time to address some of the driver and calibration issues. This could make a significant difference. For example, DisplayMate suggests that:
"The White Point is too blue, lower it to D6500, which will improve color accuracy, slow the aging of the Blue OLED, reduce power consumption, and improve battery run time."
So it may not be accurate to say the Incredible's color reproduction and power consumption are the same as the N1s. In some ways the Droid display can also no longer be said to be currently better than the N1's. Unfortunately some of the N1's color issues are due to 2.1 of the OS and when the Droid was upgraded, it adopted the same problems:
"Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate ... discovered that Android 2.1's picture gallery offers lower image quality than the previous version's gallery.
Using a Motorola Droid, he found that the picture gallery application in Android 2.0.1 offered 24-bit color depth, but after he updated the Droid to Android 2.1, the new picture gallery application had downgraded images to 16-bit color depth."
Google confirmed the findings with the following statement:
"The Gallery app in Android 2.0.1 is different from the Gallery app in Android 2.1. Google developed Gallery in Android 2.0.1, which uses 24-bit color rendered using 2D technology. On the other hand,
Cooliris created Gallery in Android 2.1, which uses 16-bit textures rendered using 3D technology. We don't have anything specific to share at this time regarding the Gallery app in future versions."
A representative from Cooliris has said that the company is working on a fix. Hopefully we'll see it with the upcoming 2.2 update, though the Droid may take a performance hit:
"The Gallery application was originally developed for the Nexus One, and as such currently displays images in 16-bit color format, due to memory constraints using OpenGL textures," Michele Turner, executive vice president of products at Cooliris, in an email. "We will be working on a version that supports 24-bit color and scaling, but do not expect to see it implemented until after the next major Android release."
So I don't think the question of which display is better is quite so clear cut at this point. As I've mentioned, I too prefer the Droid's display. But I don't count vibrancy and power consumption among the reasons.