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DisplayMate: iPhone X Has the 'Most Innovative and High Performance' Smartphone Display Ever Tested
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You read it wrong. Unlike some of you who pluck things from the air and say they are facts, all I did was to convey what was said by this article.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=https://www.mobile-review.com/review/apple-iphone-x-fl.shtml&prev=search
And the article didnt say it is off-the-shelf S6 panel. And I never said or implied that either. The article said the panel has the same capabilities as the s6 generation panel. IPX screen may have been customized and manufactured today but the tech of the OLED is equivalent to S6 generation.
The OLED used in s8/note 8 is better than IPX in these aspects (as said in the article)
1. Higher resolution (8.5 mil subpixels against 5.5mil on the IPX)
2. Higher peak brightness 1000-1200 (IPX has a max around 700). This is about the tech of each subpixel and its ability to light-up brighter (i.e. better quality oled).
3. Adaptive screen brightness with dual front/back light sensors.
What was said in the article IPX screen does not have the adaptive brightness mode hardware chip (i.e. cannot make full use of amoled potential). Displaymate said that IPX screen has the highest full screen brightness at 700. Indoor/normal use, this factor is irrelevant.
In bright sunlight, IPX will ramp up the full screen brightness to 700 nits but that's gonna suck battery. This is where the chip-based adaptive mode on the S8/N8 comes in. The screen can selectively brighten up (to 1000-1200 nits) certain portions of the screen based on the image/intensity of sunlight to give a better dynamic contrast of the image. Instead of wasting lots of battery to light up all the pixels to brighten the screen like IPX, these newer S8/N8 generation screens can save battery as well as have a better legibility in intense sunlight.
4. Always-on-display native chip-based support. Ability to only turn off/on selected portion of screen. Software-based implementation is not going to be efficient.
5. Much wider color gamut (20% wider than IPX).
6. Better viewing angle and less color shift.
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And let's not forget about color accuracy, some of which is due in part to better software.
The only article I fully agree with. They told the truth. Hey, they not getting a paycheck like displaymate who needs to refresh its ugly website. iPhone X users dealing with more color shifts, yellow tints, gray banding, malfunctioning true tone and other stuff and can't even watch a true full screen video without a notch in the way. That doesnt make for no best display especially at 1125p.
P.S. media and reviews believes everything with Apple is innovative....i started to ignore that term with them
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I don't think Samsung cannot do color accuracy tuning. Since the newer generation screen in S8/N8 is more than capable of that. Mainly, Samsung has always tuned their screen to pop with more vivid color (at the sacrifice of color accuracy). On the whole, I think users like this screen color more vivid. Look at how many here with IPX complaining about the piss yellow image (that's natural color - where yellow is dominant).
At least Samsung gives the option for a few screen modes to cater to preference (including those who like natural color).
So now displaymate is getting money for biased reviews now? Lol. Up until a week ago the note 8 was rated the best. They rate the x better. Now all a sudden they're biased? Lol
So if the s9 gets a better rating did Samsung pay displaymate? Lol
At the very least you can acknowledge that displaymate has rated the x the best right now.
Right you were caught out making stuff up no your back with more garbage.
You mean the the Samsung stooge, he is a paid Samsung schill
What a joke. All you have to do is google his name.
What a clown.
Right you were caught out making stuff up no your back with more garbage.
You mean the the Samsung stooge, he is a paid Samsung schill
What a joke. All you have to do is google his name.
What a clown.
That's a bit of cheap shot from you...using character assassination btw... did you notice the phones he is holding do not look like Samsung phones
I don't know his affiliations or preferences now, but since symbian days long before iphone, his articles has been quite factual (esp some of his insider info). At the very least he doesnt write fictions or intentionally distort or play up and use sensational headlines.
Character assasination?
That guys a clown, and your referencing him over diaplaymate? Credibility just shot to zero.
Please. Google his name and Samsung is the only thing that comes out. But of course you claim not know.
Yeah that’s because he was jumping ship from shilling for Nokia to shilling for samsung. Calling a corporate shill objective . Priceless
That guys a clown, and your referencing him over diaplaymate? Credibility just shot to zero.
Please. Google his name and Samsung is the only thing that comes out. But of course you claim not know.
Yeah that’s because he was jumping ship from shilling for Nokia to shilling for samsung. Calling a corporate shill objective . Priceless
You guys still arguing over which display is better in brightness and colour accuracy? We are mostly talking about differences that the human eye cant even distinguish, the review sites are using a Spectrophotometer to measure this stuff, The real discussion should be about the terrible off axis colour shift on the iPhone X, no way I would pay 1000 bucks for that rubbish.
I approach Tesla and tell them I want a 4 meter-long car, electric engine, 400 hp, capable of reaching 250 Km/h. When they make it for me, I change the logo, I tweak the electronic engine control system to change the way the car behaves and install leather seats and a revamped GPS system.
Have I designed the car? Have I really engineered the engine?
Cause that's what some of you are implying her for Apple. There is no evidence that Apple actually has people capable of designing OLED screens at the level Samsung does and they have not certainly done so in the past. Yet, some people assume Apple engineers became experts in OLED screens, designed one from scratch and had Samsung build it for them (also Samsung being capable of changing a mass production system of OLEDs to accommodate the new incredible Apple design).
This does not make sense whatsoever.
Have I designed the car? Have I really engineered the engine?
Cause that's what some of you are implying her for Apple. There is no evidence that Apple actually has people capable of designing OLED screens at the level Samsung does and they have not certainly done so in the past. Yet, some people assume Apple engineers became experts in OLED screens, designed one from scratch and had Samsung build it for them (also Samsung being capable of changing a mass production system of OLEDs to accommodate the new incredible Apple design).
This does not make sense whatsoever.
Makes sense if you understand fabrication, and a fabricators role in it.
It's not worth it man. I think these are sour grapes. Do you notice that they all come at once going completely off topic. Blasting Apple for the same things sour grapes always do. Thread is dead.
Based on your response, I probably understand it better than you do.
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I have an iPhone X and I absolutely love it. But I just don't buy the idea that the screen has been designed or engineered by Apple. They asked for a set of specifications and Samsung delivered. The same happens in hundreds of industries out there. I don't think this diminishes Apple value, simply states a fact.
However people want to distinguish the merit of Apple's involvement in its display for the X, it resulted in Displaymate rating it the best display right now, better than the note 8. Yet people still have an issue believing the X could be rated higher. Not bad for its first foray into OLED on its smartphones.
Absolutely. As stated elsewhere, fine tuning of the screen through software and its integration into a great piece of hardware as the iPhone X is, is Apple merit. But let's not forget that Samsung has been making superb OLED screens for years, arguably the best out there. I seriously doubt Apple would have been able to come to this screen with any other maker out there.
There are a lot of factors that can affect measurement results. The problem with phones is that there aren’t that many sites out there with objective test results.
It’s quite a different scene to the AV world where measured colour accuracy is taken very seriously indeed.
for now, but I think that the competition will soon catch up
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I believe Apple provided more than a set of specs to Samsung, same as with custom designed chips. At this point that information is not public so people can believe and guess what they want.
This is getting a bit silly. Apple' does not have the kind of display expertise or IPs to backup anything you fanoi are spewing out.
Apple "designed" the AMOLED display the same way Apple "designed" Intel processors in their MacBook - which is to say they just embellished and packaged it in their own waywithout having to "develop" the underlying tech. This is slightly more innovative than painting iPhone in "rose gold" which was supposedly popular in China.
How can you possibly know what Apple did or didn’t do or what expertise it may have or have hired. You don’t. People just spew out anything that is really opinion which they falsely believe as fact.
Right, and Intel sells off the shelf processors to many companies. This panel was custom made for this phone. And it could be a problem with the adapter driving the panel, which is likely part of Apple's SOC.
That reply though isn’t in line with original post or following comments. But I think it’s generally agreed the panel is a custom design.