You provided sources showing that both the AW and iPhone display 16M colors, which says nothing about the "software easily matching them regardless of the hardware," as you claim.
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You provided sources showing that both the AW and iPhone display 16M colors, which says nothing about the "software easily matching them regardless of the hardware," as you claim.
If, as you claim, software can't match colors, how is it that displays can be calibrated via software (see the software DisplaMate offers - http://www.displaymate.com/ordernow.html)? Although we, the end users, can't calibrate the displays of the iPhone and Apple watch, Apple surely can.
You are simply trying to start an argument for the sake arguing. Again, if you can't remain polite and on-topic, I will ask you to stop posting in this thread.
I've never claimed that software can't match colors, only that you haven't substantiated your claim that colors are rendered exactly the same on iPhone and AW.
This is still on-topic as it could be due to hardware difference between AMOLED and LCD with respect to color gamut. However, you haven't ruled out several factors such as your having a dud AW or potential color blindness. After all, others have yet to come forward reporting the same observation as in your OP.
This is completely true - millions of colours does not mean that the colours can be exactly matched - however they should be approximate-ish.
Anyway to answer the original question........
The dark blue background on my AW looks a little brighter, but more washed out than the image shown in the Face Gallery on my iPhone6. YMMV depending on screen brightness etc.
A third poster (see above) has now said that he/she also notices a difference in the watch-face color between his/her iPhone and Apple Watch.
The entire point of the post is to see if others are seeing what I'm seeing, thus helping determine what may be unique to me versus what may be a general difference between what is displayed on the iPhone and Apple Watch. Despite this, you continue to be impolite and ignore the original point of the post and the posts of others and you continue to make off-topic comments, in what is clearly an attempt to argue just for the sake of arguing. Please stop posting in this thread.
Hardware manufactures always uses the phrase "millions of colours" when they talk about their displays instead of stating that their displays can produce the ~16.8 millions of colours that a 24bit colour depth supports. That is simply because even though the display can receive a 24bit digital signal, it is entirely different story whether said display is physically capable of producing 16.8 million different colours in the analog form that your eyes can see. Without having any sources I'll claim that majority of customer level displays can not do that. Hence each display can produce "millions of colours". But that doesn't give any promise about which colours said display can produce. That's why one display can produce a specific hue of for example blue, but when an other display tries to produce the same digital input it will come out slightly differently.
This is basically same if you take an 1 inch tweeter/speaker and try to send it signal that should come out as 5Hz. Physics are going to say no, and it just won't happen regardless of how much software you try to cram in to it.
Again, I'm not off topic and I'm trying to be helpful. There could be both factors at play, a general difference between AMOLED and LCD (the third poster attested to this) and it being unique to you in term of color perception (as nobody else has really come forward to say that the blue isn't noticeable). However, we haven't ruled out the possibility that your AW might actually be defective. I.e., do you see the same thing on other AWs?
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Again, you continue to ignore the entire point of the post, as evidenced by the fact that your last sentence (starting with "[sic] I.e.") is asking the EXACT same question I asked in the original post. You clearly just want to argue for the sake of arguing (which has been noted by others), so PLEASE stop posting in this thread.
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At the end of the day, all of this is irrelevant to the question as to whether the colors displayed for watch faces match across the iPhone and Apple Watch. Displays can be calibrated by software. I am simply asking if others notice a discrepancy between their iPhone and Apple Watch in the display of colors for watch faces. I'm not looking for a technical discussion (if I was, I would have said so), so please stop trying to hijack this thread.
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