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Apple Says Minor Screen Burn-In and Shifts in Color When Looking at iPhone X Off-Angle Are Normal

The only reason they are doing this is so they can call something new and take your money. The segment is so matured, and they are desperate. We all know this, BTW. We just want new things, and are willing to lie to ourselves.

I bought one, and will probably like it for a while, unless it's weird. But I'm overspending, frankly.
I'm not all fluffy about it, when I read crap like this.
 
user1234 said:
I don't get the OLED hype. It's fundamentally a great and promising technology, but I feel that it's not yet quite "there". LCDs have gotten really good now, and while OLED has a lot of advantages it also has a lot of major disadvantages (like burn-in, of axis color change, visible flickering for some of them, invisible (to the eye) flickering on most of them...), many of which were issues on LCDs a long time ago. I'd happily get an iPhone X with an LCD display and not worry about burn-in.
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OLED hype is real just go out and Look at the LG OLED....It blows away these crappy lcd that are on the market...
 
69Mustang said:
Uh code... don't take this the wrong way but, uh do you know what @dampfnudel is asking? I ask because the explanation you gave has nothing to do with mLED.

mLED does have (reportedly) less of a chance for burn in but not because of anything you said. It's because of the uniformity of the lifespan of mLED elements. Color shifting of mLED is going to be highly dependent on the cover glass.
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Lol, I am aware. Even LCD tech suffers from burn-in, its overcome by pixel shifting. There is quite a bit of research occurring in this field, hence I do not want to provide a definitive, similar to IGZO, TN etc.

We are uncertain which micro LED tech, either presently developed or up and coming that will be available to market.
 
Jjayf said:
I find it somewhat funny that the biggest complaint I've heard on these boards over the past couple of years is no OLED. Now that everyone got their wish, everyone is going crazy.
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Apple did say that they OLED is of a higher caliber compared to the present OLED on the market, and now we get this reveal. It comes across as double talk from good old Apple marketing.
 
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Im shock that burn in on OLED is new to people here on this forum? Or did you guys thought cause its coming from apple that there is zero chance of burn in?
 
code-m said:
Apple did say that they OLED is of a higher caliber compared to the present OLED on the market, and now we get this reveal. It comes across as double talk from good old Apple marketing.
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Bad timing
 
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code-m said:
You are going to notice image retention/burn-in on the iPhone X with iOS 11, look at that slim bar that indicates the home button gesture, how about the battery indicator with the WiFi/Cell service and associating slim line indicator below it. The clock may experience minor retention/burn-in, or maybe just the separator and AM/PM indicator.

How about those navigation buttons, outlines, etc, may not be an issue with those semi-adaptive elements, however for a 1K priced phone, even keeping it for 1-2 years I would except nothing but the best. Had this phone cost 700-800, I would overlook these shortcomings.

Resale value, it was nice knowing you. :p:D
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Why would you think the indicator bar at the bottom or the two info panels at the top would automatically have burn in? AFAIK, neither will be a single color and both will shift color from black to white based on the dominant background color. Apple can't prevent burn in but they have done things in color management to mitigate it.
 
Lucifer666 said:
Right. It's sooo bait and switch. Unbelievable timing also.

Folks, wake up. This is EPIC. Sure, it's just an escape clause for them....nevertheless.
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Not certain if being sarcastic, if not welcome to the Galaxy S6 ;):D
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Why would you think the indicator bar at the bottom or the two info panels at the top would automatically have burn in? AFAIK, neither will be a single color and both will shift color from black to white based on the dominant background color. Apple can't prevent burn in but they have done things in color management to mitigate it.
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Only time will tell :)
 
Really, it's probably not a big deal, but it's fells good to trash the lousy company after giving them $$$. :D
 
code-m said:
Apple did say that they OLED is of a higher caliber compared to the present OLED on the market, and now we get this reveal. It comes across as double talk from good old Apple marketing.
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I do not want to come across as an Apple fanboy ho would defend them to the death, because I've often questioned their decisions, but at no time did Apple ever say the X screen would not suffer burn in. They did say they have worked extensively to mitigate the issue. Now they are saying that it's an issue that could happen in certain circumstances, and is normal to the technology..

Believe me, I just paid full price for my device. If it suffers horrible burn in without me abusing it, I'm not going to be happy. I am familiar with display technology and don't believe it will be an issue for most of us.
 
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Jjayf said:
I do not want to come across as an Apple fanboy ho would defend them to the death, because I've often questioned their decisions, but at no time did Apple ever say the X screen would not suffer burn in. They did say they have worked extensively to mitigate the issue. Now they are saying that it's an issue that could happen in certain circumstances, and is normal to the technology..

Believe me, I just paid full price for my device. If it suffers horrible burn in without me abusing it, I'm not going to be happy. I am familiar with display technology and don't believe it will be an issue for most of us.
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Hey mate, I did not mean any offence nor am I taking it personally. I just feel that as of recent years, Apple downplays certain technologies such as Qi even though its loyal customers are asking how come its not available similar to the competitions release or sooner, considering this company brags about being advanced. They have done this with TouchID and now FaceID, however it seems eventually they just provide what they loyal customers wanted what the competition had years ago and forget what they said.

I am all for competition, however to negate your competitions efforts as not being good enough for ones loyal customers and then adopting that same competitors technology years later is just having a poor sportsmanship attitude.

They say they have courage to omit old technology, however at least admit that the competition did something right, i.e. AMOLED, water/dust resistant, Qi, etc. This superiority complex attitude of Apple at times, rubs me the wrong way and then to charge more so than the competition is another insult to its loyal fans.
 
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Wait a minute...if apple said it’s normal, then the resell shouldn’t be impacted,right?
 
Hahaha, I knew this would happen. Anything that isn't normal Apple calls normal. LOL! "You're holding it wrong". Now this.
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Puddled said:
My S6 (over 2 years old) has no burn in.

Any Blue-shift is very minor as well.

Carry on.
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But my friends s7 edge has tons of burn in. Depends how you use it and how bright you have the brightness. He always had his brightness up a lot.
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Closingracer said:
Apple has never made their own displays and never will
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Umm no.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/24/apple-developing-oled-samsung-dominance/
 
code-m said:
Apple did say that they OLED is of a higher caliber compared to the present OLED on the market, and now we get this reveal. It comes across as double talk from good old Apple marketing.
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Higher caliber? Samsung is making it and the one on the note 8 and even S8 and S8 plus are better numbers wise.
 
code-m said:
Hey mate, I did not mean any offence nor am I taking it personally. I just feel that as of recent years, Apple downplays certain technologies such as Qi even though its loyal customers are asking how come its not available similar to the competitions release or sooner, considering this company brags about being advanced. They have done this with TouchID and now FaceID, however it seems eventually they just provide what they loyal customers wanted what the competition had years ago and forget what they said.

I am all for competition, however to negate your competitions efforts as not being good enough for ones loyal customers and then adopting that same competitors technology years later is just having a poor sportsmanship attitude.

They say they have courage to omit old technology, however at least admit that the competition did something right, i.e. AMOLED, water/dust resistant, Qi, etc. This superiority complex attitude of Apple at times, rubs me the wrong way and then to charge more so than the competition is another insult to its loyal fans.
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Ya I get what you're saying.. But if you take Apple at face value, they waited until they were confident that their display was as good as technology allows before they adopted. Other companies could be accused of rushing to market with technology that suffered from inherent issues..

Samsung sure seems to be an innovator when it comes to features.. It's a shame that it looks as though Apple is always playing catch up..
 
Pascal325 said:
Hahaha, I knew this would happen. Anything that isn't normal Apple calls normal. LOL! "You're holding it wrong". Now this.
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But my friends s7 edge has tons of burn in. Depends how you use it and how bright you have the brightness. He always had his brightness up a lot.
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Umm no.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/24/apple-developing-oled-samsung-dominance/
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According to reports.... But if they aren't even using LG for their OLED panels what makes you think Apple has the factories to produce enough panels like Samsung can. Samsung is producing the OLED panels for the S8, S8 plus, note 8, S7, S7 edge, other mid range phones from Samsung, the pixel 2 ( HTC made phone using Samsung produced displays) and whatever other phone that uses OLED panels.

As far as the rumor goes I'll wait until I see it and not assume they will.
 
I've had my Note 8 for almost a month and a half and no burn in. Since Apple uses Samsung sources displays I will have to say you have nothing to worry about. Just don't have a static image on the screen for long period of times and you'll be fine.
 
bboucher790 said:
Just got my X an hour ago and the biggest gripe I have with it is not the notch, or lack of home button, it’s the God awful color shift that occurs from standard usage.

I’m picky, I’ll admit that, but it’s much worse than I expected. Since the screen is so much bigger than a standard 8, it’s very apparent. Besides the color shift, the screen is fantastic and I’m really liking the X.

I’m pretty disappointed, as this could turn into a dealbreaker for me and it’s something that wasn’t really discussed prior to launch as an issue. I’m using Jump so I can trade this back in whenever. We’ll see how I like it in a week’s time. I would highly recommend checking it out in person to see if colorshiftingbothers you. I would suspect most won’t care.
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Can you provide pictures of said color-shift? Would love to see it
 
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