This will be pretty fascinating - what would be a better buy, a $700 LCD iPhone (Face ID, edge to edge screen) versus $999 iPhone X (Face ID, OLED, edge to edge, dual camera)? Does the X do enough to be worth $300 more?
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iPhone X 2018 LCD Full Screen iPhone vs OLED iPhone X
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Well at the moment, this $700 LCD Face ID iPhone is purely hypothetical. So the X does do enough because it exists.
Even if this LCD model will exist, The Consumer will obviously will make the decision what they want in terms of a display, LCD or OLED. Not To mention, Apple will likely place most of their capabilities and features into the OLED model because it is the most expensive, which naturally they want the consumer to purchase.
I will buy a plus size LCD iPhone next year as I can't get on with the X OLED. Apple need to offer something as an upgrade to the 8 series and I'm really hoping it's not just Xs and X plus with OLED unless the resolve the PWM on this display.
It doesn’t bother me whether it’s LCD or OLED as long as the price isn’t stupid and the phone isn’t huge. Im not obsessed with screen quality like some. A couple of rumours have suggested the LCD model could be over 6” though. I wouldn’t even entertain buying that.
IMO for now LCD is the better option because Apple has pushed the LCD so much and made it so damn good ....But next year the OLED will be improved and it will be the way to go...But LCD has some years to stay
Apples LCD panels are some of the best in the industry, not just because of the panels they choose to use from the manufacturer, it's because of their own tuned calibration settings that regulates the lighting, color gamut and brightness.
I much prefer the screen on my 6S to the screen on my colleagues S8. If he’s showing me stuff across the table the screen looks anything from green to blue to pink. Head on I can’t tell the difference as to which one should be better, but I feel the LCD is much easier to view. I think my next phone will have LCD or that is the plan at this stage.
If the only difference is LCD and OLED I’m going to have a hard time justifying a $300 premium (also assuming the prices are as written here) for the oled bump. It’s not exactly bleeding edge technology and even Apple has been using it for goignin three years lol.
That said I can’t imagine the price points are what they are if the only tangible difference is screen materials.
That said I can’t imagine the price points are what they are if the only tangible difference is screen materials.
That's colour shifting. Even the iPhone X has it. Oled is better than lcd. The other guy must have put his S8 in saturated display mode which some don't like.
Returning my X tomorrow for 8plus. I love the phone but it’s killing my eyes
I wish I hadn’t traded my 7 plus in. Hopefully they’ll resolve this Pam/ refresh rate for next year.The same securities analyst listed the current iphones as TFT-LCD as well. I am sure it will be the same LCD tech used today
I would be all over a Iphone with a 1080p LCD in the form factor of the X.
I have 0 problems with my X screen. It’s a fantastic screen, and I could never go back to lcd. This is why I have a plasma tv and my next be will be oled.
It's not exactly abnormal to have a shift in colors with OLED. What I don't understand, is how someone can say they think this phone was rushed. I mean, how do you know that? What about the millions of iPhones they're going to sell across the world, are those rushed to? Just Because what you read on a tech forum, doesn't equate to everybody else's experience for someone to make a claim that this iPhone was "Rushed. "
The slight colour sift to blue on the oled. And I mean slight. Is far more desirable than the sift on an lcd. It loses contrast, colour, and the awful shift of blacks to grey.