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

if it provides longer Battery life, then sure, keep working at this. But I'd rather have a longer life than improved image quality. Look how damn good these things look already.

Invest more in Bettery life, durability, wifi, bluetooth, NFC... but image quality. Come on!
 
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lordofthereef said:
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)
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I suspect it has a lot to do with the picture. UHD and above photos usually (not always) look better to me on the Note 5 (display setting can affect this) while HD and below look better on my 6S+.
Eye of the beholder.....
 
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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'm still in alignment with LIVEFRMNYC. Say what? :confused:o_O

As a side note, would you include the variations on the 6S screens from yellow to blue? You know, as long as you are posting some pics....
 
Rhonindk said:
I suspect it has a lot to do with the picture. UHD and above photos usually (not always) look better to me on the Note 5 (display setting can affect this) while HD and below look better on my 6S+.
Eye of the beholder.....
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I wouldn't doubt that. generally speaking, not enough UHD content out there yet. Was the same situation when 720/1080 (tvs not phones) came into existence. People didn't immediately see the draw.
 
Rhonindk said:
I'm still in alignment with LIVEFRMNYC. Say what? :confused:o_O

As a side note, would you include the variations on the 6S screens from yellow to blue? You know, as long as you are posting some pics....
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Rhonindk said:
So what exactly am I looking at here?
(btw - that flash caught on the base of the N5 kind of ruins the shot .....)
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It's not flash it's the lights on the ceiling. Both samsungs are less bright and blueish and the one that's dimmer is mine. It wasnt however 4 months ago.
 
John Mcgregor said:
It's not flash it's the lights on the ceiling. Both samsungs are less bright and blueish and the one that's dimmer is mine. It wasnt however 4 months ago.
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Interesting. I do know that the Note 5 fine tunes settings like brightness over time. Could that account for it?
I am assuming you have both devices set exactly the same ...

The last time I had to reset my Note 5 I had to set the initial brightness at a lower setting to get what I was used to. I attributed it to the fine tuning.....

ps: The Note 3(?) used to have this issue. My understanding it was fixed with the Note 4.
 
Hal~9000 said:
Oh baby!

I just can't wait for all the "OMG I got a LG display, should I return it to try and get a Samsung display?" threads :rolleyes:
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To be fair, LG screens seem to pretty consistently have more issues than Samsung ones. There is a definite pattern there.

Phones are also big purchases, that people carry around with them all the time and depend on. People like to compare their phones. It's only natural they'll want one with (anecdotally, because nobody can actually know the future) less chance of quality issues.

It's completely natural, and completely right. These people put pressure on Apple, and in turn LG, to improve their processes and product quality. This is how the market is supposed to work - people want to buy an iPhone, but one with a screen manufacturer they trust. If that's not what they receive, they vote with their wallets and return it.
 
Orlandoech said:
Mean while complaining that Samsung is Samesung and copying everything Apple does.
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I don't think anybody doubts Samsung's component chops: they're the biggest display manufacturer in the world (TVs, etc), and they are of very high quality.

The issue is that Samsung is sitting there, with all of these fantastic components, and sees companies like Apple making so much money by packaging some of them in to a phone. So they think, "hey, why can't we slap them in to a phone and also money?" -- but they don't really know how to make a great phone, so they base them all heavily off the iPhone. They take the software (which is critically important to any computing device) from Google, then also heavily modify that in to an iPhone clone. That's usually what people have problems with.
 
NT1440 said:
The problem, if I recall correctly, is that each color doesn't age at the same rate. Specifically, the blue led's change rapidly which effects the "hue" of the screen.

Apple puts a ton of work into getting their displays color accurate, and I believe this issue is why they haven't adopted OLED yet. That said, from their patents, they've been doing a ton of research to resolve the issue:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...ay-for-possible-use-on-a-future-iphone-1.html

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So much for Apple's phones being built to fail and forcing you to upgrade... :confused:
 
Rhonindk said:
Interesting. I do know that the Note 5 fine tunes settings like brightness over time. Could that account for it?
I am assuming you have both devices set exactly the same ...

The last time I had to reset my Note 5 I had to set the initial brightness at a lower setting to get what I was used to. I attributed it to the fine tuning.....

ps: The Note 3(?) used to have this issue. My understanding it was fixed with the Note 4.
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Rhonindk said:
Interesting. I do know that the Note 5 fine tunes settings like brightness over time. Could that account for it?
I am assuming you have both devices set exactly the same ...

The last time I had to reset my Note 5 I had to set the initial brightness at a lower setting to get what I was used to. I attributed it to the fine tuning.....

ps: The Note 3(?) used to have this issue. My understanding it was fixed with the Note 4.
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All settings are the same on samsungs. Actually it looks much worse compared to iPhone in person. Pictures don't do justice here. And i have seen exactly the same in stores for example where they have units for testing. Those are much dimmer already.

After 3 years it will be half as bright when it was new and 3 years is a reasonable amount of time to have a phone.
 
BvizioN said:
These 2 companies use different tactics. Samsung would slap any technology in infancy on its products just to be the usual 'me first' while Apple would wait for the technology to be mature/affordable enough to make sense having it on its products.
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keep telling yourself that often enough and one day you might truly believe it...
 
cocacolakid said:
I agree, the current screens are great. I know there is always a desire to improve and even if it's only for a bump to battery life, that's great. But I think the colors look better on iPhones than the super saturated OLED competitors.
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this is getting dull, the Galaxy screens have been rated as 100% colour accurate by professors in white coats using lab equipment.. your eyes or wrong, probably blinded by your bias I suspect... Lcd screens are pale and washed out.. take a night time outdoor pic. the sky's are awful...
 
mangonights said:
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.
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when you watch 4k YouTube vids, the stop go animation ones on a galaxy tab, They also have a 3d quality. how? not sure. but they sure look impressive.. maybe due to the mega high contrast ratios ..
 
maokh said:
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?
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can you explain how they mastered something That was nothing more than a marketing slogan.. the htc one m7 was the same Lcd ips but full HD, eually as bright and vibrant but much sharper..
do you actually belive the buzz words they use on stage as actual things....wow...
 
Designx said:
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.
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better colour accurate you say... of course, good luck with that..
 
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