The notch breaks the design. I don't believe Samsung is interested in "copying" it since lately it's been the other way around.
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DisplayMate: Samsung Galaxy S9 Beats iPhone X With 'Best Performing Smartphone Display'
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The extended space around the sensors, you mean. Nothing is broken by this extended space, and the design has character. Not everyone can appreciate what Apple has done here. It would certainly be easier to have “the lip” like Samsung, of course, but Apple is not known for doing easy.
You’re not serious.
Can you elaborate on this? Aside from the notch they're basically the same.
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Movies don't look good with wings.
This is not a surprise, if you have not been living under the rock or rather Apple Tree, you would know; Samsung always had the best display.
Dude. That is such weak sauce. All the more so because Apple kept the same big-ass chin, physical home button, forehead & side bezel on its iPhones for TEN years.
Wow. Some Apple extremists have gaul coating in their tunnelvision.
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I agree that people shouldn't turn this into a notch love-fest. However, I've had mine for a while and I like kinda knowing the "up and down" of it much faster. The scroll down from the upper right corner can hurt!
You know that bezels also obscures part of the screen yeah?
It easily could’ve. Many phones have kept one display end for status / buttons, and simply rotated them to be in a vertical column in landscape.
Or in the worst case, Apple could’ve blanked all or most if the wings in landscape mode.
That said, the notch doesn’t seem to bother many owners. Altho my teen daughter just refused an offer of an X and instead chose a new 8, because of the notch.
Missed the point. You don't know the reasons why the "vast majority of ....." etc. Eg, the notch moaners may be moaning about it, but never have been apple customers and wouldn't buy an iphone if it was the only phone in the world. Or, they may have been turned off by the notch and decided not to purchase. Either way your statement is a straw-man(or blanket generalization) as you don't know the actual reason claimed notch dislikers don't own an iphone.
I'll leave this "irrelevant tangent" at that.
I’d rather have a notch which obscures a little than a bezzle which obscures all. Why is it so hard to figure out a bezel obscures more not less?
I’d rather have the notch than a fingerprint scanner on the S8 being essentially useless due to its placement. Reviewers are doing a disservice to consumers by not mentioning this serious flaw. Most say it’s an inconvenience, but the truth is it’s not usable.
The S9 appears to have fixed this, but we’ll see. I don’t trust tech reviews anymore. I’ll believe it when it’s in my hand.
The S9 appears to have fixed this, but we’ll see. I don’t trust tech reviews anymore. I’ll believe it when it’s in my hand.
Only the plus models.
Still Apple makes the panels how they want it. Not as simple as just Samsung or LG making the panel.
Actually go and look at the DisplayMate website and compare the S9 and X.
Look at the colour accuracy.
Lower is better:
S9 average 9.1 JNCD
X average 0.9 JNCD
S9 largest difference 15.2 JNCD
X largest difference 2.3 JNCD
S9 white colour temperature 2.8 JNCD
X white colour temperature 0.2 JNCD
So yeah, if you are in the market for an expensive phone with wildly inaccurate colour accuracy, buy an S9.
Look at the colour accuracy.
Lower is better:
S9 average 9.1 JNCD
X average 0.9 JNCD
S9 largest difference 15.2 JNCD
X largest difference 2.3 JNCD
S9 white colour temperature 2.8 JNCD
X white colour temperature 0.2 JNCD
So yeah, if you are in the market for an expensive phone with wildly inaccurate colour accuracy, buy an S9.
You do know that before iPhone X the best display was Samsung Note8?
So Samsung had the best display, then Samsung gave an even better to Apple and now Samsung gives an even better to them self.
Its not thanks to Apple, its thanks to ordinary Hardware evolution.
Samsung's phones are oversaturated on default, that's why different screen modes exist. The tradeoff is between "better" looking colors and oversaturation or a flatter look with more accurate color representation.
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I love how much misinformation you're spreading. The S9 like previous Galaxy devices has different display modes for different color ranges and color accuracy. Their Adaptive Mode is obviously their least accurate color mode but has a wider color gamut. You just pulled some stats from a chart you didn't understand at all to spread ur hate for Samsung, nice try buddy, but you look dumb for this one. They even have notations in the chart descriptions for the Adaptive Mode stating that it's intentionally inaccurate. I love how everyone who tries to judge a Samsung's device display automatically writes it off as oversaturated and inaccurate while conveniently forgetting that the phone has different display modes. No, it's not like Samsung is the leader for OLED displays in the smartphone industry or anything, and it's not like APPLE THEMSELVES use a Samsung manufactured OLED screen in their own iPhone X or anything.
Lowest JNCD for screen modes OTHER than Adaptive Mode on S9: 0.7 JNCD
White color temperature for modes OTHER than Adaptive Mode on S9: 6-7 K off from the 6,500K standard for white
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While I am enjoying my iPhone and won’t be changing anytime soon to a Samsung or any Android phone, I find it just hilarious that our usual suspects here bashing the S9 for its bezels, while Apple had bezels strips so huge, that a 747 could fly touch and gos on them - for years. And the same suspects were defending Apple back them, when posters mocked Apple for that.
Priceless!
Priceless!