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All I gotta say....

Shouldn't that be the case since it is the newest phone out?!?

Then the next phone that comes out will have the best screen and so on!

It would of been pretty funny if it didn't though. :rolleyes:

Then why doesn't the S3 beat the iPhone 4 that is 2 years older?
 
I do not disagree with all of your points but I have got to tell you that while you're calling the community retarded, you're bitching about MacRumors reporting on Apple news and being biased. You don't see the irony in that at all? Why would they post a favorable article on some other non-Apple related device? Maybe I am wrong but I don't read the articles here and think, "gee, I wonder why they don't mention how awesome the SGS3 is..." If I was less than biased news I run over to a variety of other well known tech sites. <snip>

Thx for your input. I don't have a problem with a slight Mac bias on a Mac based site. The problem I personally have is the community reaction to everything posted here.

I know MR is not a non-profit thing, I know MR profits heavily from flamebait (like this article) in form of page clicks - it's just utterly annoying to see something that once was my favorite Mac-related website after the demise of Spymac turn into an awfully bad rendition of AI.

AI also heavily leaned to biased articles - and you know how that worked out. ;)
 
I know MR is not a non-profit thing, I know MR profits heavily from flamebait (like this article) in form of page clicks

Excuse me but what makes this article a flame bait exactly? The fact that you do not agree with the outcome?
 
Thx for your input. I don't have a problem with a slight Mac bias on a Mac based site. The problem I personally have is the community reaction to everything posted here.

I know MR is not a non-profit thing, I know MR profits heavily from flamebait (like this article) in form of page clicks - it's just utterly annoying to see something that once was my favorite Mac-related website after the demise of Spymac turn into an awfully bad rendition of AI.

AI also heavily leaned to biased articles - and you know how that worked out. ;)
Yes, yes I do. ;)
Excuse me but what makes this article a flame bait exactly? The fact that you do not agree with the outcome?

Lets talk science here or something like that. pentile vs rgb matrix ... how can you compare the two? Really.
 
Lets talk science here or something like that. pentile vs rgb matrix ... how can you compare the two? Really.

Why don't you explain why you can not. The output quality of both screens can be compared regardless of the underlaying technology used to produce the image on the screen no? If not, why.

BTW, here's some background on Displaymate and their (industry standard) tests: http://www.displaymate.com/about.html
 
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...case in point. I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 3, and I see it hitch and lag for a split second all over the place while browsing the web. Yet I'm not going on sites screaming that this half second lag totally kills usability.

...and that wouldn't bother me. I'm talking about pervasive nearly every time I pick up the device nearly every time I resize in nearly every web page. Not a glitch here and there a small percentage of the time. You're talking about something that isn't "perfect" (iOS is certainly not) vs something that is just delivered in an inferior fashion (I'm talking about this specific case here). Not sure I understand this "a little of something is equivalent to an unlimited amount of something!" mentality people have when comparing. Sortof like "Well iOS is fragmented now!" because there are 5 current resolutions (4 being direct multiples of another) and 3 screen sizes, vs dozens and dozens of them for that other OS.
 
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Good, the experts have arrived! It's probably not software related at all since the static lines only appear when you enter passwords in iTunes and AppStore. (assuming you do sarcasm).

Out of all the issues people are reporting this is the one I've actually experienced. Happened twice last night - once when I was typing in my password and another time when I was in my games folder.

Hoping it's not indicative of a larger problem. Doesn't affect usability at all so its not really a big deal (my Nexus 7's screen is raised on the left side as the adhesive didn't hold properly - my second one as I returned the first for the same reason but seeing as it doesn't affect usability I decided just to keep it).

Other than that the super light and thin design plays tricks with my mind. I've watched the drop tests and *know* the iP5 is more durable than my old iP4S or my work iP4 - but I still feel like I'm gonna break it lol!
 
Why don't you explain why you can not. The output quality of both screens can be compared regardless of the underlaying technology used to produce the image on the screen no? If not, why.

BTW, here's some background on Displaymate and their (industry standard) tests: http://www.displaymate.com/about.html

No problem for me to do that but I love it when I ask someone to really speak intelligently on something for the sake of a debate and they answer only by asking me to do it first. ;)

Keep an eye out for my response then, I gotta finish another wall-o-text response first. ;)
 
Both phones have good displays. While iPhone display has somewhat better specs in some categories, they are close for the most part. There is only one category where the difference in the specs is huge. It's a contrast ratio. Here SGSIII is still better almost two orders of magnitude (45,000 vs 1,356). Nothing surprising here. While one can argue which colors are more accurate, it's hard to argue that display without black color (iPhone) is really competitive.

Also, some of the claims in DM review are border line ridiculous. For example, they say this about SGSIII "Gamut Too Large 139 percent of Std (sRGB / Rec.709 is the color standard for most content and needed for accurate color reproduction. Note that Too Large a Color Gamut is visually
worse than Too Small.)"

That's just plain incorrect. All people who do photo editing know that wide color gamut monitors are much better (and much more expensive). Wide gamut means that display can reproduce more colors. How to use them is a different story. Some monitors provide special mode (narrowing the gamut) to render sRGB content when used with applications that can't handle color profiles properly.

Besides, the talk about accurate color reproduction on phone displays in general is not than meaningful given the fact that apparently none of the Mobile OSes does color management. Those interested can get more information here.

Oh let's see, the SGIII:

* Is heavier then the iPhone 5.
* Is thicker then the iPhone 5.
* Has a inferior screen to the iPhone 5.
* Has a inferior GPU to the iPhone 5.
* Is more fragile then the iPhone 5.
* Has a less advanced CPU then the one used in the iPhone 5.

Oh I can now see why *YOU* think that Apple "skimped" on the components used in the iPhone 5. :rolleyes:
 
Yes, yes I do. ;)


Lets talk science here or something like that. pentile vs rgb matrix ... how can you compare the two? Really.
Well, if you can compare display sizes, as Samsung does in its ads, then it's also fair to compare their quality and accuracy. The larger size of the SG3's screen requires compromises on quality and usability. Those compromises are just as valid as screen size is in a phone buyer's decision making process. They're just harder to quantify and market.

Alternatively, if we don't compare screen quality because of the different technologies used, then we shouldn't compare screen size, for the same reason.
 
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So they want to tell you that only iPhone and SG3 have good displays?

I am glad they are happy with iPhone 5 display but considering how good they rated iPhone 4 display I am not sure they know what are they talking about. Maybe they had only one sample, if they had two they probably could not decide which one they like more: sick yellow or ice blue.

Yes iPhone display is better than SG3 but what's not better than Super AMOLED which doesn't even have proper whites.

In my oppinion the best constant display is Nokia N9/Lumia 900.
 
No problem for me to do that but I love it when I ask someone to really speak intelligently on something for the sake of a debate and they answer only by asking me to do it first. ;)

Keep an eye out for my response then, I gotta finish another wall-o-text response first. ;)

Well, I did it only because you discredit an acknowledged, scientific, industry standard display test with one sentence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I didn't really expect an answer to be honest. I left a link there, in the hopes that you should realize what exactly you are trying to discredit.

DisplayMate is used by hundreds of publications for editorial testing and lab reviews. DisplayMate is used by every major manufacturer in their research labs, by hundreds of test labs and service facilities, by thousands of technicians, and by over 100,000 consumers and end users. Via DisplayMate's Consulting Services we assist many of the world's leading manufacturers in developing and producing the best displays and display technologies.
 
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Awful and ignorant comparison.

The best comparisons for the iP5 are the Optimus LTE and the HTC One X because they are all IPS and around/ over 320 PPI, with full RGB matrix.

Both the One X and the LTE are superior. DisplayMate sounds like noobs who think that only Apple and Samsung exist. :rolleyes:

Galaxy IIIS sees themselves as competitors to the iPhone 5.... they market themselves as direct competitors. It's a fair comparison... and the iPhone 5 spanked the Galaxy.
 
Uh, stop it. Just stop.

The iPhone—Well, excuse me, Apple—invented what's “out there.” If it weren't for Cupertino, Google would still be chasing RIM, and we all know RIM's on their last legs, God bless 'em.

Touch it, bring it, pay it... This argument wouldn't exist if it weren't for iPhone.

If you have a multitouch mobile device (let alone one with 3rd party multitouch apps,) it's an iPhone, or an iPhone knockoff.

Thanks? You're welcome. Goodnight.

I think you meant to respond to the guy I was rolling my eyes at. Because I agree with everything you just said.
 
...and that wouldn't bother me. I'm talking about pervasive nearly every time I pick up the device nearly every time I resize in nearly every web page. Not a glitch here and there a small percentage of the time. You're talking about something that isn't "perfect" (iOS is certainly not) vs something that is just delivered in an inferior fashion (I'm talking about this specific case here).

Maybe you had a semi DOA Nexus 7. Something that's as horrible as you're making it out to be would've been brought up in reviews, or at least talked about more than every rare once in awhile on various tech messageboards.

In fact, I just now watched this video of the 7's web browser in action. The guy does a zoom function towards the end, and it isn't all that bad. It's not as smooth as the iPhone/iPad, like it seems to blink and jiggle the text around to fit into the readjusted view, but it isn't super laggy or broken, either.
 
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