Reuters | Motorola Inc. is seeing strong demand for its Droid phone at Verizon Wireless, despite the popularity of rival HTC Corp.’s Droid Incredible, co-Chief Executive Sanjay Jha said Wednesday.

Jha told reporters after an Executives Club presentation in Chicago that Motorola is suffering from industry-wide supply chain constraints, similar to those HTC is seeing for its Droid Incredible phone.

Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodaphone Group Plc., said last month it was having a hard time keeping up with the supply of the Droid Incredible because of a shortage of screens from Samsung Electronics.

“[Droid] sales are going extremely well. If I could build more I’d sell more,” Jha said, without discussing which components were in short supply.

Jha said this year’s phone lineup would include two to four phones with front-facing cameras that could be used for mobile video-conferencing. The comment follows two high-profile introductions of phones with such cameras in the last week.

Apple Inc. said its next iPhone would have a front-facing camera when it goes on sale June 24. Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, started selling EVO, a high-speed phone with video conferencing capability, on June 4.

Jha said he would support the technology even though he had “never been a great believer” in the demand for video conferencing.

Motorola shares closed up 2 cents, at $6.68, on the New York Stock Exchange.