I was bored so I stuck both phones under a microscope, it looked pretty neat so I thought I would share.
I'm guessing s3 is on the left?
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I'm guessing s3 is on the left?
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No, its on the right.
No wonder the SGS3 looks so pixelated...I miss the screen density of the Rezound :crying:
Strange that the red sub-pixels are so small.
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No wonder the SGS3 looks so pixelated...I miss the screen density of the Rezound :crying:
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Really, pixelated? Do you use your phone under a microscope?
My wife has a Rezound. The screen does not even come close to the S3. If the S3 came with a Rezound screen I would be pretty disappointing.
Pixelated is the Droid Razr phones. The S3 is far from pixelated.
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Really, pixelated? Do you use your phone under a microscope?
My wife has a Rezound. The screen does not even come close to the S3. If the S3 came with a Rezound screen I would be pretty disappointing.
Pixelated is the Droid Razr phones. The S3 is far from pixelated.
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I agree 100% & I have three Rezound's.
My Son has a RAZR MAXX, that screen looks horrible to me, but I absolutely love the G3 screen.
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No wonder the SGS3 looks so pixelated...I miss the screen density of the Rezound :crying:
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Yes rezound screen was sick and can't wait to get the new HTC super phone!!!
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Really, pixelated? Do you use your phone under a microscope?
My wife has a Rezound. The screen does not even come close to the S3. If the S3 came with a Rezound screen I would be pretty disappointing.
Pixelated is the Droid Razr phones. The S3 is far from pixelated.
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It's pixelated compared to rezound dude. Rezound screen was perfection and the razr just sucks I bought one and didn't even activate cause of how bad screen was.
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Having had both, the only thing I miss about the Rezound is the screen. It's so much sharper it's not even funny.
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Having had both, the only thing I miss about the Rezound is the screen. It's so much sharper it's not even funny.
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And sense 4 I miss lol
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Really, pixelated? Do you use your phone under a microscope?
My wife has a Rezound. The screen does not even come close to the S3. If the S3 came with a Rezound screen I would be pretty disappointing.
Pixelated is the Droid Razr phones. The S3 is far from pixelated.
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If memory serves me right, the rezound's LCD is simply superior compared to amoled, even if you only look at the ppi. How HTC got so much right in a phone that's a year old with the rezound still amazes me.
I will admit the Rezound screen is very nice. I do wish the S3 was full RGB stripe. Even so, the S3 screen is FAR from pixelated. If you think this screen is pixelated you have some kind of super vision or something because it is VERY sharp. Plus you have to take into account this the Rezound has a significantly smaller screen.
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I will admit the Rezound screen is very nice. I do wish the S3 was full RGB stripe. Even so, the S3 screen is FAR from pixelated. If you think this screen is pixelated you have some kind of super vision or something because it is VERY sharp. Plus you have to take into account this the Rezound has a significantly smaller screen.
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If you look really really close to the screen you can see pixels. Never could ever with rezound
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I didn't buy a phone with a humongous screen like the S3 just so I could "look really really close" for pixels..
The screen is fine and actually more colorful than the Rezounds..
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If memory serves me right, the rezound's LCD is simply superior compared to amoled, even if you only look at the ppi. How HTC got so much right in a phone that's a year old with the rezound still amazes me.
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Totally agree.. Still have my rezound. And my wife uses hers as a daily. I love the s3 but it's no rezound for sure
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While I agree the Rezound and One X have GREAT screens I don't think that I would EVER stray away from my Samsung's... I also have an iphone 4s but I can't even see the damn screen so it might as well be 100 ppi.... lol
Go BIG or go HOME!!
Then call me the minority here but the Rezound screen looks dull and drabby to me. I do not like the contrast and colors of it at all. The same goes for the One X Super LCD 2 as well.
I will take more contrast and darker blacks over a shaper duller screen any day. The S3 screen is beautiful. I had the SGS2 as well with a Super Amoled Plus screen and the S3 looks just as good the naked eye, unless of course you put you eye onto the screen to see it.
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I didn't buy a phone with a humongous screen like the S3 just so I could "look really really close" for pixels..
The screen is fine and actually more colorful than the Rezounds..
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The colors aren't as real as the are on rezound
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Then call me the minority here but the Rezound screen looks dull and drabby to me. I do not like the contrast and colors of it at all. The same goes for the One X Super LCD 2 as well.
I will take more contrast and darker blacks over a shaper duller screen any day. The S3 screen is beautiful. I had the SGS2 as well with a Super Amoled Plus screen and the S3 looks just as good the naked eye, unless of course you put you eye onto the screen to see it.
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Colors are almost fake looking at times on the s3. Rezound was real looking
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LOL! How do you fake colors?
Judging by the photos in this thread, the colors seem more vibrant and you get deeper blacks with the S3..
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you fake colors by amoled not having the correct colors, period. it's well known that amoled screens are way too oversaturated compared to lcd.
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I was going to get the thunderbolt, but then I came across the slashgear review that said it has a regular tft display. So then I checked HTC's website and it says TFT.
Hmm...
Whatever it is, it looks pretty nice.
http://cdn.androidcommunity.com/wp-...110318-bkn2b2bcciqxthw31wjx55bixc-540x287.jpg
Looks pretty bad in that pic. Looks like I won't be getting it now.
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Looks pretty bad in that pic. Looks like I won't be getting it now.
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Yeah, that pic looks awful. Good thing mine doesn't look anything like that. Might want to look at one in person before you judge it.
Coming from the Fascinate, the screen is the worst part of the Thunderbolt. We'll see if I used to it after a week or two.
I also used to have a fascinate.
Screen is a huge factor in buying a phone since, you know, that's the thing we look at on the phone lol.
How many of you are gonna view your screen from an angle?
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Looks pretty bad in that pic. Looks like I won't be getting it now.
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You sound like the baby in the picture.
Are you guys seriously getting mad??? I'm trying to figure out information about the screen because I wanted this phone, but the screen is a HUGE factor in my decision. I can't check it out in person until after work. Anyone have any pics of the screen at a direct angle?
The screen is TFT and it is not a very good one in my opinion. I don't care much about the viewing angles - for me the colors are pretty poor and it is not very sharp. The lack of sharpness is mostly due to blowing up the resolution on a larger screen but the colors on this thing are pretty bad when compared to my amoled Incredible and iPhone 4. Not crisp, not very good. The screen is very nice for video (due to the size) but otherwise completely unremarkable when compared with devices a year older.
Combined with the battery life and some serious Sense bugs, probably sending this one back. My coworker already sent his back today.
I guess I am disappointed with all the buildup of this "flagship" phone. Seems they could have presented a tighter package. I really wanted to like this phone - oh well.
Its been reported that the screen is SLCD its better than my EVOs screen. I personally dont like amoled screens, there too saterated imo. HTC is moving from amoled screens to SLCD LIKE the bolt.
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Whatever the screen is its amazing. Vibrant and sharp.
I went from an iPhone 4 to Fascinate and now Thunderbolt out of those 3 the iphone had the best display and the fascinate had by far the worst i hated the screen the colors just looked fake and made everything look cartoony. I absolutely LOVE the screen on the thunderbolt SLCD ftw!
I've got a Dinc and aDX (both rooted FWIW), and a Xoom. Picked up a Thunderbolt over the past weekend. Love the screen. Much better than the DX, and I personally don't care for the saturation of the Dinc AMOLED. T-bolt screen is on par with the Xoom which is gorgeous.
The screen owns the crap out of my Droid, which was confirmed to possess a normal TFT screen.
The T-Bolt definitely has a Super TFT LCD. I'm not sure a Super AMOLED would be necessarily better at this point, except for battery savings on 4G.
honestly this phone looks much better than my eris, and my incredible. and most definitely better than my g-tablet lol.
there is no angle where the screen loses color and it is extremely crisp looks much better than the dx when held right next to it. It just seems sharper. same res though.
I was actually pleasantly surprised by the quality of the Bolt screen. It's bright, vibrant and colors are very nice. I came from a Nexus One AMOLED screen.
Screen on TBolt rocks, at least on mine it does.
how are you gonna judge a phones display without seeing one in person? nerd much?
this screen looks great to me...but I couldn't care less whether you get the phone or not..
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Coming from the Fascinate, the screen is the worst part of the Thunderbolt. We'll see if I used to it after a week or two.
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I agree. The screen is the biggest disappointment to me. It's not bad, it's just not up to par, in my taste, with either the iPhone 4 or the Nexus S and Galaxy S SAMOLED screens. It's the least satisfying thing about the phone for me, but not sure it's a deal breaker. I'd prefer a SAMOLED Thunderbolt, though!
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... but the screen is a HUGE factor in my decision. I can't check it out in person until after work. Anyone have any pics of the screen at a direct angle?
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The screen should be a huge factor in your decision, but no picture on the internet is going to give you an idea of how it looks in person...
re: Nexus One comments, it's a first generation AMOLED (no S) device with a pretty lousy implementation of it on top of everything else. Totally unusable in sunlight, totally oversaturated, totally wonky. Not sure about DINCs or anything else.
I've have every model of iPhone, including the iPhone 4, a Nexus S, Nexus 1, Galaxy S i9000, Galaxy S Vibrant, Thunderbolt, and used to have an EVO 4G. The iPhone 4's display is pretty amazing, but I think I still prefer the SAMOLEDs.
SAMOLEDs are a tough act to beat in my opinion, but only because I like INKY blacks...total lack of color/light blacks, which only the SAMOLED/AMOLED displays can deliver. Compare a Thunderbolt to a Nexus S in a darkened room with a black screen on the phone and the Nexus S will emit no light...the Thunderbolt will emit a glowing black-ish backlit light. Not important to all, but something I really notice. As said above, not a deal breaker to me, but I'll jump ship to the first decent LTE phone to come along with a SAMOLED screen.
I do not have any problem with my display. Yeah, AMOLED and SAMOLED displays will have better contrast and more vibrant colors... but I do not have any issue with my TB display.
I came from an AMOLED Nexus One.
I tried to look at my friends evo 3d and HTC rezound and it hurt my eyes. I can't bare to look at a non oled screen again. Do you own a phone with a oled display? And what should I upgrade to? I currently have a nexus s and I'm considering the Droid razr. Is this a good choice ?
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i love my lg thrill screen it looks ten times better then my sisters samsung infuse 4g with the amoled display in direct sunlight. purely awesome. amazing color clarity as well. lg really knows how to make screens
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now my dad owns a nexus s. but both of my phones with "LCD" (APPLE IPHONE 4S & LG OPTIMUS BLACK is far better than it.
OLED screens does not give the actual color. it gives overly saturated colors and are not very good under direct sunlight.
if u love OLED, u'd be owned by a good IPS like the optimus black (if u are talking android, that is).
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I tried to look at my friends evo 3d and HTC rezound and it hurt my eyes. I can't bare to look at a non oled screen again. Do you own a phone with a oled display? And what should I upgrade to? I currently have a nexus s and I'm considering the Droid razr. Is this a good choice ?
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Bad choice. RAZR's screen is terrible, pixelated garbage. Get the GNex or GNote.
Avoid LG at all costs. Their update schedule is so messed up.
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Bad choice. RAZR's screen is terrible, pixelated garbage. Get the GNex or GNote.
Avoid LG at all costs. Their update schedule is so messed up.
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agreed this is my lasy lg phone!!! it sucks cause their hardware is great!!! it tricks you.. they suck at updates!
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I'm not sure how the Rezound hurt your eyes, one of the best screens I've ever used.
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I remember when I went from my vibrant back to a my touch I thought my eyes where bleeding lol
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I'm not sure how the Rezound hurt your eyes, one of the best screens I've ever used.
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rezound display is great,once autobrightness controls come like setting levels it'll be even better
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daevion0 said:
I tried to look at my friends evo 3d and HTC rezound and it hurt my eyes. I can't bare to look at a non oled screen again. Do you own a phone with a oled display? And what should I upgrade to? I currently have a nexus s and I'm considering the Droid razr. Is this a good choice ?
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Droid Razr's screen is pixel-ated garbage; I would go with the galaxy nexus - get my updates and unhindered bloat-less experience. Everything these custom UIs give you, a custom launcher can do and better.
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welcome to the club
i only buy devices with SAMOLED+ or SAMOLED HD or at the very least SAMOLED (as found on some Nokia phones)
I mostly stick to Samsung phones as they always carry SAMOLED # screens
HTC Desired had them for a while until they ran out of stock
daevion0 said:
I tried to look at my friends evo 3d and HTC rezound and it hurt my eyes. I can't bare to look at a non oled screen again. Do you own a phone with a oled display? And what should I upgrade to? I currently have a nexus s and I'm considering the Droid razr. Is this a good choice ?
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I absolutely LOVE the display on my Rezound. It's been mentioned earlier but once auto-brightness tweaks are able to be implemented it will be flawless.
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OLED screens does not give the actual color. it gives overly saturated colors and are not very good under direct sunlight..
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Thats exactly what i thought! "Lets turn up saturation... OH LOOK SHINY COLORZ = better display"
But maybe we are just used to under-saturated displays?
I'd rather get a screen that's more power efficient. Especially with white background.
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Thats exactly what i thought! "Lets turn up saturation... OH LOOK SHINY COLORZ = better display"
But maybe we are just used to under-saturated displays?
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Exactly. Most people are used to washed out colours from LCDs, so they see nothing wrong. But it isn't for nothing that TV manufacturers are always trying to push the vibrant colours of their screens.
For me, ever since getting the uberawesome GNote, I can't stand the faded looking colours of regular LCDs.
Besides I like screens with really nice blacks and colours that look alive.. So SAMOLED HD FTW....
I agree, the rich deep blacks on OLED screens really do spoil you.
Yep, I have a SGS and whenever i look at phones with non OLED displays I pity them. My friend has the SGS i9003 ( the one with S-LCD display) and we compared them side by side, the SAMOLED screen looks WAY better than SLCD. ( more than 6 people were there and we all agreed). Its all about the blacks baby ..
how would the screen of the arc s be rated alongside these phones???
I agree ,the Oled display use less baterry power than other displays,and i love it..
It's just sad whenever I show my screen to some1 who bought a phone and said "It was cheap, it is small, and it's not heavy." And they see my GNex, and they say "Awh, me wun that scweeeeeeeeeeeen." All I can say is.. Pwned by low-end.
I agree OLED is best solution, even if the color is not as real as some others LCD, but I think this will be solved in a near future.
Just think that Samsung, that is the 1st word producer of LCD displays, has just started the spin-off of the LCD department and has declared that the future of his research is on OLED. Say also that Samsung is going to spend a pharaonic amount of money in research for the next year, I'm looking forward to see results.
Hi all .. ! I moved from Defy to Galaxy S2 then to Atrix 2 and so far i noticed the three have different displays. As far as i know, there is probaly 2 types of displays. The Blue Displays, common in AMOLED, and the Yellow display. Is that true? Because i could notice a very big difference. GS2 has a more blueish tinted display while the A2 is more yellowish, nly noticeable in White/grey backgrounds. I took a look at the defy and colors looks normal, it gets solved with screen adjuster, but with it other problems arrives..! I think that this is a normal thing.. But disappoints me.. Main reason by wich i bought it is the Display, i love qHD 4.3 LCD with Normal RGB , i like more 720p displays, of course, but this was what i was looking for.. if this is a faulty display then i should move and ask for another one may be.. what do you say guys? have you noticed that comparing to others displays?
I think the superoled displays on all the samsung's have a yellowish display. That said in a week with any display it will look normal to you.
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I think the superoled displays on all the samsung's have a yellowish display. That said in a week with any display it will look normal to you.
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Actually the SuperAmoleds that the sammys have are a blueish tint, not yellowish... the a2 has a slight yellowish tint that has been noted here before and like you said it seems to sort of disappear with more use though.
I was just saying that you will get use to any phone you get. I'm thinking of getting a SGSII. The only other android I've had was the G1. There's so many rom's for them that you could flash a new one everyday for a year. I thought all androids were like that. I'll never get moto again.
Sorry for my rant.
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I was just saying that you will get use to any phone you get. I'm thinking of getting a SGSII. The only other android I've had was the G1. There's so many rom's for them that you could flash a new one everyday for a year. I thought all androids were like that. I'll never get moto again.
Sorry for my rant.
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Oh I loved my G1... I have had so many androids it is not funny.. I still have my tellus hero that I used on ATT. that has been my backup for a good number of years now.
Yeah you can get an sgs 2 for pretty cheap and they have the real Cyanogenmod and jelly bean/ CM10 will be on the sgs 2 soon enough.
Galaxy SII is a very good device! I still have it as my main phone. The only things i dislike of SGS2 is the screen, the quality of the plastic, its super light weight and its too thin. I lile heavy and good loking premium devices.. thats why i bought my A2 and love it. Jim you are right.. its getting normal with the time.. I wish Oficial ICS OTA comes out soon.. Our phone will be amazing even more than now. Motos ics updates are awesome.. so close to stock android.. thanks to the hardware of a2 we'll enjoy a similar performance as in Galaxy Nexus.
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Galaxy SII is a very good device! I still have it as my main phone. The only things i dislike of SGS2 is the screen, the quality of the plastic, its super light weight and its too thin. I lile heavy and good loking premium devices.. thats why i bought my A2 and love it. Jim you are right.. its getting normal with the time.. I wish Oficial ICS OTA comes out soon.. Our phone will be amazing even more than now. Motos ics updates are awesome.. so close to stock android.. thanks to the hardware of a2 we'll enjoy a similar performance as in Galaxy Nexus.
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Keeping it off the track, lol:
You know one small thing from moto's side will make this phone legendary
:bootloader unlock:
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Yeah, no doubt about it. When do you think that Moto will update our Phone to Jellybean? Maybe Q3 of 2013 when Android 5 is released? By now with ICS i would be pleaced.
I bought A2 from USA n m stayin in India
I observed there's no Yellowish tint on Indian A2 launched around march end
Strange
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shardul.phatak said:
I bought A2 from USA n m stayin in India
I observed there's no Yellowish tint on Indian A2 launched around march end
Strange
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You guys are scaring me!! I thought i have a good eye sight!!
anyways tested my A2 with Display testerfrom the google play and i didnt see any yellow tint..
Yeah its really yellow compared to AMOLED, but id rather have a yellow screen any day over a pentiled blue one, haha.
Is the Atrix 2 really not a pentile display? From my understanding it's the same LCD in the Photon and DROID Bionic (connector and dimensions are all the same). If so, I might have to get an Atrix 2 display and put it in my Bionic. I got my wife an Atrix 2 yesterday and did notice that the colors were a little bit better.
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Is the Atrix 2 really not a pentile display? From my understanding it's the same LCD in the Photon and DROID Bionic (connector and dimensions are all the same). If so, I might have to get an Atrix 2 display and put it in my Bionic. I got my wife an Atrix 2 yesterday and did notice that the colors were a little bit better.
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Engadget says this:
First, while both Atrix devices (Atrices?) take advantage of qHD displays with 960 x 540 resolution, the newer one looks better despite having a larger display to hold the same number of pixels in. This is mainly because HelloMoto opted not to use the Pentile matrix scheme, which is something that the company has elected to do on most of its qHD screens -- including the first Atrix and the Droid Bionic.
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Definitely not Pentile in the Atrix 2. That was the main reason that I returned my Atrix 1 on day 29- I couldn't un-see the screen door effect.
Let us know how that bionic screen swap goes, if you end up trying it.
The Atrix 2's screen is more "warm white" than it is yellow per se. Whenever I see my friend's amoled phone I'm stunned at how blue cold the color is.
Me: "Is it supposed to look like that?"
Friend: "Like what?"
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Yeah you are right friend i can also see the display yellowish when a see anything white in it. I think its normal. But have u saw that when u lock the screen and see it under light, the screen looks blurry. Please try and tell me
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I have an Atrix 2 display at work, so I'll try it today as long as I have the time. I'll take pictures.
Hmmm...it must be that they actually sent us a DROID Bionic display instead, because it still shows the pentile effect. I had actually tested the screen (without close examinations) in an Atrix 2 before, so the screens are interchangeable at least.
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Yeah you are right friend i can also see the display yellowish when a see anything white in it. I think its normal. But have u saw that when u lock the screen and see it under light, the screen looks blurry. Please try and tell me
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Yeah, just a little bit, the yellowish tint all over white/grey background doesnt bothers me at all, i just thought i had a defect in the display, i examinated it closely the day i bought the A2 to see if there is something wrong with it to take it to the seller in case that something is wrong. Hey guys, am i the only one who check for updates everyday after work? Lol, damn, i want official ICS in my Atrix!
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Is the Atrix 2 really not a pentile display? From my understanding it's the same LCD in the Photon and DROID Bionic (connector and dimensions are all the same). If so, I might have to get an Atrix 2 display and put it in my Bionic. I got my wife an Atrix 2 yesterday and did notice that the colors were a little bit better.
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Hmmm, the Bionic, The first Atrix and the Photon, also the Razr, Razr Maxx, Droid 3, Droid 4, have Pentile Matrix Layer, its a RGBW Layer, wich is Thinner i guess, so i think it won't work, you can try if you want.. here is something interesting to read about Pentile
http://www.nouvoyance.com/technology.html
It will work (at least a Bionic/Photon LCD does work on the Atrix 2).
Any other S4 owners having reservations about going back to LCD screen after enjoying AMOLED?
I know S4 colors are not perfectly accurate but I for one have always enjoyed such vibrant display on my phone. I'm all for having accurately calibrated TV but on a phone I prefer the richness AMOLED provides. When I tried switching the screen profile to "Movie", to see how it would be, I always got a "blah" feeling when I went back to my home screen, something was missing.
So, my Nexus is "out for delivery" and I'm trying to convince myself to open the box when it gets here. I like everything else about it.
Is this a joke?
I've been with the S3 since it was released and always liked the super vibrant and colour saturated screen. Been on my Nexus 5 for a few days now and I actually prefer it more. The colours aren't as saturated but the screen looks more.. realistic. I find the S3 screen to be too distracting and irritating now.
That's my opinion.
I don't know about the "vibrancy" of my Nexus 5's screen, but it is worlds ahead of my Galaxy Nexus' screen. Everything is crystal clear, and looking at them both at the same time makes my Gnex look awful.
I was in a similar boat coming from my galaxy note 2. I've always adored AMOLED displays.
To my surprise though I really like the nexus 5 screen. I like it better than my note 2. I'm really impressed.
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Surfy89 said:
I've been with the S3 since it was released and always liked the super vibrant and colour saturated screen. Been on my Nexus 5 for a few days now and I actually prefer it more. The colours aren't as saturated but the screen looks more.. realistic. I find the S3 screen to be too distracting and irritating now.
That's my opinion.
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I have never been a big fan of AMOLED. I have had it on past phones, like you I had a Galaxy S3 as my immediate prior phone. I honestly hated the display because I couldn't see anything in direct sunlight outside. It was great for indoor viewing at night, and as a clock on my night stand but that was it. I much much more prefer the screen on the Nexus 5.
AMOLED is terrible. IPS is much better
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I absolutely love amoled screens... that being said I also love the Nexus 5 screen!
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Any other S4 owners having reservations about going back to LCD screen after enjoying AMOLED?
I know S4 colors are not perfectly accurate but I for one have always enjoyed such vibrant display on my phone. I'm all for having accurately calibrated TV but on a phone I prefer the richness AMOLED provides. When I tried switching the screen profile to "Movie", to see how it would be, I always got a "blah" feeling when I went back to my home screen, something was missing.
So, my Nexus is "out for delivery" and I'm trying to convince myself to open the box when it gets here. I like everything else about it.
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I'm still having some reservations.
I'm testing both devices for a week.
I am coming from a Note 2 as well. My first reaction to the N5 was, wow this screen looks great. Crystal clear and colors look better to me. This is another thing though that will be entirely up to the user. Some with see things different than others.
itsalexaye90 said:
AMOLED is terrible. IPS is much better
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It's a cheap IPS, which is no better than S-PVA.
Just compare Nexus 5 colors to iphone or to IPS monitors from Apple or NEC.
jodvova said:
It's a cheap IPS, which is no better than S-PVA.
Just compare Nexus 5 colors to iphone or to IPS monitors from Apple or NEC.
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Pretty sure the Nexus 5 is a cheap phone, at $350 unlocked.
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itsalexaye90 said:
Pretty sure the Nexus 5 is a cheap phone, at $350 unlocked.
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Define "cheap".
The manufacturing costs of iphone is cheap too.
http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/Ne...-Manufacturing-Cost-IHS-Teardown-Reveals.aspx
But apple likes to earn a big margin on them. Now, Google as Amazon might follow a different strategy here.
ptscon said:
Any other S4 owners having reservations about going back to LCD screen after enjoying AMOLED?
I know S4 colors are not perfectly accurate but I for one have always enjoyed such vibrant display on my phone. I'm all for having accurately calibrated TV but on a phone I prefer the richness AMOLED provides. When I tried switching the screen profile to "Movie", to see how it would be, I always got a "blah" feeling when I went back to my home screen, something was missing.
So, my Nexus is "out for delivery" and I'm trying to convince myself to open the box when it gets here. I like everything else about it.
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Keep your locked bootloader s4 and pretty display. And next time search before posting. There are many other threads discussing the same thing.
jd1639 said:
Keep your locked bootloader s4 and pretty display. And next time search before posting. There are many other threads discussing the same thing.
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S4 GE's bootloader is unlocked. what's the problem ?
No second thoughts at all. Love ips screens. S4 screen you can see it is something glued under something else while here you feel it is one. Also amoled screen hurts my eyes. As for the washed out colors no worries at all. PA has the cure
I'm really missing AMOLED if i'm being honest. There is no Black as such on the N5 screen, just shades of grey. IPS glow sucks! What i want on this phone is to eliminate all traces of the Holo dark theme which doesn't work at all well on this screen. If everything was light coloured it wouldn't be an issue.
I've never actually owned a phone with an AMOLED screen but I have used them a bit and I personally prefer IPS, the HTC One has the nicest displays yet I hope the N5 screen is at least comparable.
nfaust01 said:
I am coming from a Note 2 as well. My first reaction to the N5 was, wow this screen looks great. Crystal clear and colors look better to me. This is another thing though that will be entirely up to the user. Some with see things different than others.
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This was my experience too coming from a Note 2. I love the display.
I've never owned a phone with amoled display, but looked at Samsung note 3, my initial thoughts were that the colours were very vibrant, after some time however I have concluded that the colours are over saturated.
I realise it's a matter of personal choice which you prefer, my preference is IPS lcd .
With regards to the claimed superiority of amoled display ability to show truer black, I am typing this on my nexus 5 and the black display is almost indistinguishable from black bevel at the top of the screen.
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I'm looking to switch outta the note 5. Does any one know if the LG v10 is comparable?
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I'm not sure if I want a phone with IPS screen.
I've had both. I jumped to the v10, and was back to the note 5 within a month.
The V10 is good, but not quite there yet on performance and bugs.
The camera is excellent though. I liked that better than the note.
Overall, it wasn't a bad phone for me. My wife still has hers and likes it.
It is a different experience for sure
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tengtengvn said:
I'm not sure if I want a phone with IPS screen.
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How come?
IPS screens aren't bad at all. Colours are pretty on point too especially compared to Samsung and their over saturation of colours.
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Jammol said:
How come?
IPS screens aren't bad at all. Colours are pretty on point too especially compared to Samsung and their over saturation of colours.
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AMOLED and dark theme save battery. I'm used to the AMOLED screen but that's just me. I don't like how pixels are lid up on a black background. The Moto 360 has the IPS screen and it's pretty annoying to look at at night with an always on watchface.
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AMOLED and dark theme save battery. I'm used to the AMOLED screen but that's just me. I don't like how pixels are lid up on a black background. The Moto 360 has the IPS screen and it's pretty annoying to look at at night with an always on watchface.
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Ahh okay. I see a lot of people complain about that on the IPS devices. I didn't mind the ones I've owned in the past. I will say that I do love the Amoled screens but I just don't see the hype of the superBlacks that people rave about, though I do love my screen not Cyclops'in me at night though. Lol.
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I've had both. I jumped to the v10, and was back to the note 5 within a month.
The V10 is good, but not quite there yet on performance and bugs.
The camera is excellent though. I liked that better than the note.
Overall, it wasn't a bad phone for me. My wife still has hers and likes it.
It is a different experience for sure
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Same here...its a nice concept but v10 has worse battery life than note 5 and the second screen has weird shadowing issues that I could not stand ...not really a second screen...software splits them up...when you load cyanogen on it is obvious and I hated it.... hope this helps..
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Same here...its a nice concept but v10 has worse battery life than note 5 and the second screen has weird shadowing issues that I could not stand ...not really a second screen...software splits them up...when you load cyanogen on it is obvious and I hated it.... hope this helps..
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That sounds awful. I never get the point of the second screen in the V10.
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That sounds awful. I never get the point of the second screen in the V10.
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Yeah pretty much just a dedicated recent bar or edge app bar...pretty gimmicky....note 5 is such a better device overall...I don't know why every phone doesn't have front facing speakers tho...the only thing I would change really...but viper does a very nice job improving default speaker performance.
I usually don't even need to turn it up past halfway!
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Ahh okay. I see a lot of people complain about that on the IPS devices. I didn't mind the ones I've owned in the past. I will say that I do love the Amoled screens but I just don't see the hype of the superBlacks that people rave about, though I do love my screen not Cyclops'in me at night though. Lol.
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Seems to have a lot to do with how people use their phones. I'm personally a heavy reader, and there's something about Kindle with the black background setting and an AMOLED display. The screen just sort of disappears when you read in the dark, and all you see are the letters floating in your hand.
After three Samsungs, I switched to a Nexus 5 a couple years ago and haaaated the always-glowing LCD. Picked up a Note 4, breathed a sigh of relief. Went through the usual annual "Samsung sucks, I'm never buying another Samsung ever again!" tantrum after that and tried an iPhone 6 just to "gain some perspective". Haaaated the always-glowing LCD yet again (and so much more--you can't answer incoming VOIP app calls from the lock screen? What??), and went right back to Samsung with this Note 5.
So I've basically learned two things about myself: 1) I need zero-glow-blacks and 2) whining about Samsung has never changed the fact that they're the only brand I haven't thoroughly hated owning.
I agree. Samsung is keeping the best AMOLED screen for their flagships. The 6P's AMOLED screen is great but you can clearly tell it's not on the same level.