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DisplayMate: Samsung Galaxy S9 Beats iPhone X With 'Best Performing Smartphone Display'

john123 said:
None of what any of the three of you said is mutually exclusive with what I said.

Note: I said "people." I didn't say "all people."
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Still missing the point. Why complain about something you haven’t tried? You said: “Why would people buy a $1000 product that has a key "feature" they actively dislike?”

How can someone “actively” dislike something they’ve never used? Or complain about how it supposedly works?
 
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When you have 6+ months to copy your chief competitor it's really bad if you can't one-up them...
 
It has the "best" camera. That's until Apple releases the next iPhone that will become the best once more...
 
tillathenun said:
A brand new phone has better specs than phone 4 months old? Wowser.
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Is it newer? My initial read of the GS9 didn't reveal the display itself was any different than the GS8. However I did only read initial launch day reviews so perhaps I missed something?
 
As a tech enthusiast, I find these comparisons interesting. However the majority are not tech enthusiasts, the average smart phone consumer could care less about which display that is marginally better over the other. There simply choose the smart phone based on the platform they are using (iOS/Android) and what interest them about the smart phone they choose in general. These ratings really are frivolous for the majority in the real world.
 
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dannys1 said:
To be fair, they used this exact phrase to describe the iPhone X.

Which begs the question how much closer to perfect can "visually indistinguishable from perfect" be?
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Look how stupid the S9 looks next to the iPhone X with those disgusting bezels.
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Hah - what's funny is that when I look at those two side-by-side I just think: "Wow - they both look great! But the one on the right is an iPhone in the Apple ecosystem so I'll buy it."... which is exactly what I did (my iPhone X is on my desk in front of me right now).

Do people still seriously care what their phone looks like? Long-gone are the days of butt ugly phones. I haven't seen an iPhone or (quality) Android phone in years that I would say was "ugly" or that would have put me off from buying it.

The iPhone X is an awesome phone... but not because of or in spite of it's physical design. FaceID is awesome and operating the phone is buttery smooth. Definitely my favorite iPhone upgrade so far!
 
john123 said:
None of what any of the three of you said is mutually exclusive with what I said.

Note: I said "people." I didn't say "all people."
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You just made your statement into a straw-man.

You can’t provide rational as to why “any one person would buy a phone with a key feature they didn’t like...they wouldn’t?”. Some maybe all would.
 
Don't fret since the iPhone X is still the industry's most profitable phone.

While the Galaxy S9/S9+ lack a notch, the 6.2" is too wieldy, radio performance is only good underground, a display only slightly better according to DisplayMate, slightly better camera per DxOMark, the most copied phablet design, bloat like DeX and a lower price for poor people.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/7xqtdg/iphone_slow_to_pick_up_service_on_the_nyc_subway/

http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S9_ShootOut_1s.htm

https://www.dxomark.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-plus-review-premium-specs-top-end-performance/
 
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Apple needs to step up their game and finally add a 1440p screen. Even the last Pixel's screen looked better than what they're currently offering.
 
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RE: "... largest native color gamut, highest contrast ratio,"

Translation, Samsung, NOT Apple, is leading the charge to 10-bit extended color space "display" !


BGR10A2Unorm is the pixel format type needed to "capture" 10-bit extended color space photo content ...
Apple does NOT officially support it ... don't yet know if Samsung does with their newest smartphones.

10-bit color "capture" & "display" (obviously) go Hand-in-Hand.

Whoever gets there First (with support for both) will very-likely win the smartphone wars for the next 1-2 years ! ... all existing 8-bit color smartphones will IMMEDIATELY Lose their Luster !

Remember these statements !

This topic should have been on the Radar of most the past 18 months, especially those who gamble Coin in BIG, glacial-moving tech companies.
 
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69Mustang said:
Sorry bud, I have no idea what you're getting at so I'm just going to say okay.;)
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I’m simply saying Samsung may gain some knowledge from Apple’s first OLED Design. I agree that Samsung has the edge in OLED product cycles. Without violating any proprietary Apple OLED design they may have gained an advantage in the S9 display.

Apple clearly designs some of the best TFT LCD displays on earth. They are manufactured by Samsung or LG, but use proprietary Apple developement in the final display. It’s no different than TSMC fabbing a chip with Apple Designed architecture.

It’s simply a matter of more cycles. :apple:
 
DNichter said:
So they took the display that Apple developed and made it better. The cycle continues.
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You are mistaken if you think apple has anything to do with samsung r&d in amoled displays.

They have been perfecting it for the past 10 years.the new gs9 has sub pixel rendering that allows the driver to actually turn on each color sub pixel. That is a first for amoled and the apple screen does NOT use this.
 
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Alex.Roams said:
The screen-to-body ratio on iPhone X is about 82.9%. The “all-screen” iPhone is 17.1% not-screen. The screen-to-body ratio on Samsung’s Galaxy S9 is 84.2%.
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What's disgusting is, people in the industrialized world have time on their hands to fret about a 1.3% difference in screen-to-body ratio. God help us.
 
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Rogifan said:
Samsung also has side bezels as the photo for this story clearly shows. And what’s the bottom bezel for? Symmetry? Everyone hates bezels but for some reason pretends Samsung doesn’t have them.
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DaveOP said:
Probably because the top and bottom bezels are both smaller than the S8/S9, and the side bezels really feel more like they wrap around and are a part of the side. "Massively thick black line" is a gross exaggeration.
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Apple are the only one throwing around the"all screen" BS

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Hahaha. "visually indistinguishable from perfect" is the exact phrase they used when reviewing the iPhone last year.
 
deanthedev said:
Still missing the point. Why complain about something you haven’t tried? You said: “Why would people buy a $1000 product that has a key "feature" they actively dislike?”

How can someone “actively” dislike something they’ve never used? Or complain about how it supposedly works?
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Plenty of people here do it about Android, Windows, Google, etc, etc too.
 
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mi7chy said:
Don't fret since the iPhone X is still the industry's most profitable phone.

While the Galaxy S9/S9+ lack a notch, the 6.2" is too wieldy, radio performance is only good underground, a display only slightly better according to DisplayMate, slightly better camera per DxOMark, the most copied phablet design, bloat like DeX and a lower price for poor people.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/7xqtdg/iphone_slow_to_pick_up_service_on_the_nyc_subway/

http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S9_ShootOut_1s.htm

https://www.dxomark.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-plus-review-premium-specs-top-end-performance/
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Well looky what we have here :D

"With an overall DxOMark score of 99 points, the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus takes the number one spot in our Mobile ranking, edging out the Google Pixel 2 by just one point. The S9 Plus comes with a camera that hasn’t got any obvious weaknesses and performs very well across all photo and video test categories. The Photo score of 104 points is the best we’ve seen so far."
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NT1440 said:
What in the world is "infinity display" supposed to refer to then? :rolleyes:
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A combination of the curvy bit giving less of a big fat black line at the sides and the HUGE UHD+ 2960x1440 resolution ;)
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grkm3 said:
You are mistaken if you think apple has anything to do with samsung r&d in amoled displays.

They have been perfecting it for the past 10 years.the new gs9 has sub pixel rendering that allows the driver to actually turn on each color sub pixel. That is a first for amoled and the apple screen does NOT use this.
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Samsung have been developing OLED since waaaayyy before it was fashionable and developed them to be as good as they are today. Apple have constantly mocked it then jumped on the bandwagon.
 
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