A small handful of early adopters are encountering problems with the massive 4.3-inch display on Motorola's new Droid X smartphone. A number of users are seeing serious banding, flickering, and other kinds of major distortions. Verizon has confirmed that the screen issues are caused by a hardware defect, but the carrier says that the problem is isolated to less than one percent of the total Droid X inventory.

Hardware blog Engadget published several videos that demonstrate the flaw. They later received an official statement from Verizon informing them that the hardware defect is not widespread and that afflicted customers should contact Verizon or Motorola.

Our two review units appear to be unaffected by the glitch and aren't exhibiting any of the documented symptoms. Keep an eye out for our full-length Droid X review, which is coming soon.