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Apple is 'Close' to OLED Screen Deal With LG and Samsung for Future iPhones

lordofthereef said:
Your average person looks at a screen, make a judegement call on hich is subjectively better looking to them, and then uses buzzwords like "sharp", "pop", "pretty", etc. This isn't meant as an insult to anyone, but it is what it is. Plenty of people think the Galaxy line has sharper, prettier, etc. displays.
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Set my 6S+ and Note 5 side by side and depending on the pic or vid, one looks better than the other.
Personally I prefer the OLED.
 
Radon87000 said:
Its going to be the same screen as they are the same supplier
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There are many many many many different kinds of screens.

And many many many many different ways to configure them.

A Passat is not a Golf just because they're both made by VW....
 
I was looking forward to the iPhone 7, but it looks like my 6 Plus will have to last until iPhone 8 to get OLED. I see no other compelling reason to upgrade before then. Apple is just iterating the iPhone and doing nothing really revolutionary with it. Same old boring design. If they switch to OLED, I hope they make a curved phone or something visually striking.
 
OLED is the bee's knees for sure. We recently bought an LG OLED TV and it's mind blowing. I didn't expect the perfect contrast to have such a dramatic effect on the image, but it does. The television image essentially becomes '3D' even though it's just 2D.
 
Time Less said:
Never heard anything about white pixels saving power on LCDs. Source?
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From my understanding, with OLED screens the power usage is directly proportional to the average "whiteness" of the screen; i.e. a full black OLED screen uses little/no power, while a full white screen uses quite a bit of power.

As compared to LCD screens that use essentially the same power all the time.

Meaning if the screen is mostly dark, an OLED screen saves some power over the LCD, if the screen is mostly white the LCD saves some power over the OLED.

However, OLED has been improving over the last few years and this "crossover" point (where LCD is more efficient than OLED) has been moving more and more toward white.
 
DynaFXD said:
Samsung is a very big company. The telephone division would have to "buy" the panels from their electronics division just like anyone else. It is entirely possible that they couldn't afford their own panels to make whatever their price point is for the final product (opting to go with inferior panels or another make altogether, if need be). Besides, if Apple and Samsung enter a performance based contract, and Samsung can't deliver the specs promised, they don't get paid. This 'Samsung vs Apple' this is really all show boating for the true believers on both sides. In the real world, they are both about making and selling as much product as they can to maximize profits. If Samsung (or Apple) thinks the other has the best product or services to keep their mills churning, you can bet they will. Everything else is windows dressing.
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You shouldn't be on here. You are too logical and realistic.
 
Rhonindk said:
Set my 6S+ and Note 5 side by side and depending on the pic or vid, one looks better than the other.
Personally I prefer the OLED.
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I am on the other end. I literally can't see the 4K people rave about. I have a hard time differentiating 720 and 1080 unless I am literally trying lol. Some people absolutely swear they can see individual pixels on an iPhone 6 screen (at normal viewing distance).I don't disagree that they can, but I am just not one of those people (despite not having issues with my close up vision, at least according to my eye doctor lol)
 
BuffaloTF said:
Yes, the S screens are Pentile while the Note screens are RGB. Samsung avoids these issues by making the blue sub pixel larger than the rest, and the green smaller.

But... moving along from your quote... people make a judgement, using buzzwords, and they aren't just thinking they're better looking... they're scientifically better looking too.

This isn't meant to insult anyone, but Samsung's been popping out the most color-accurate screens with unlimited contrast ratios since the S4, only ever beating itself with each subsequent release. The S6 being nearly perfect on color accuracy and gamut.

The only weakness that's still persisting today is dynamic brightness. They still tend to get washed out in the sun.

Source: Displaymate.
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I don't doubt that they are technically better. But you will find just as many people swearing by the iPhone screen as any other (technically better) screen. That's all I meant here. It diesn't necessarily matter if the screen is better or not, opinions can be subjective, and I think we have come far enough in display technology that specs aren't always going to dictate preference.
 
musika said:
I'd like to see them offer a 'Dark Mode' or just a black-based UI in general, like the Apple Watch.
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They obviously can't do that, because they would be copying Samsung's ultra saving mode.

oh wait i forgot, it's only bad when Samsung is copying, but groundbreaking when Apple does it ;D
 
Not sure how I feel about this, but if anyone can get OLED right, it's Apple.
 
John Mcgregor said:
Im going to a new years party, so i will take my 6S Plus and S6. There will be few guys with S6 as well. Seeing is believing i guess. Will post picture before midnight.
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I have the S6 Edge since release. Always keep in on max brightness. Never experienced or even heard about the claim you make.
 
Samsung released OLED displays way before the tech was ready for primetime - thus all the bad experiences people had with it. I prefer color accuracy and brightness over anything else which Apple has done better than anyone else thus far so I hope they don't compromise that for the wow pop factor.
 
I professionally look at every single phone screen that comes across the market, and I have yet to see an OLED outperform a high performance LCD. The LG G4 is a prime example of this. Rarely does a device cause me to do a double take and get excited...and no less it was that G4. Apple did master the "retina" display, which was pretty ground breaking at the time. Perhaps they can master the OLED?
 
macduke said:
Thanks, but invert colors ≠ dark mode. Many apps, such as Tweetbot, Weather Underground, and even first-party apps like Maps and iBooks have proper dark modes (as well as the "Private" mode for Safari).
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Watch app would be a very good example of the dark mode.
But I guess then developers will have to redesign their apps to blend in. Not sure if that would require much work from them.

Bubba Satori said:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/mobile/39549-oled-confirmed-for-phone-7

"fruity cargo cult..." :p
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Looks like is written by a 12 years old Shamsung fanboy :)
 
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