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Its taken them years but it seems they've finally got a good Amoled display. The thing is the S2 to the S5 were dreadful diabolical screens - its a bit like Android itself...it took 4-5 years to get anywhere near the design levels of iOS. In its infancy the icons looked like something from the Sega Megadrive.

I'm not too bothered if the iPhone screen never changes, works perfectly for my needs, its a mobile screen, I rarely look at it. But I do hope these mobile improvements make it over to large screens, OLED has a long way to come to get to decent standards from a promising start. It wont be Samsung doing it there though.
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Funny because I thought that was the phone...

Sorry what. You have a smart phone but the screen is not something you look at a lot? In fact - you rarely look at the screen? So then, one wonders - why do you even have a smart phone?
 
Not only a Better display, but also a better camera, an SD card and not to mention water resistant. :p

I'd take a better camera and water resistance (and to be fair, in 6 months you will get both, so meh) An SD card is something i've never ever required in any mobile device i've owned, which is every iPhone and iPad since the first. Hell if someone wants it let them have it, but i'd never be used by me (just like its never used in the Mac's I own that come with the slot)
 
I'd take a better camera and water resistance (and to be fair, in 6 months you will get both, so meh) An SD card is something i've never ever required in any mobile device i've owned, which is every iPhone and iPad since the first. Hell if someone wants it let them have it, but i'd never be used by me (just like its never used in the Mac's I own that come with the slot)

You make me laugh. Thanks for the afternoon entertainment. Sincerely.
 
What do you do with your phone that you rarely look at the screen?

Its just a phone, i'm not glued to it like a teenager. Its just there for when its useful, I don't "consume media" on it. I text and and listen to music mainly (via bluetooth in the car) the rest of the time I use my Mac.
 
I'd take a better camera and water resistance (and to be fair, in 6 months you will get both, so meh) An SD card is something i've never ever required in any mobile device i've owned, which is every iPhone and iPad since the first. Hell if someone wants it let them have it, but i'd never be used by me (just like its never used in the Mac's I own that come with the slot)

This explains why you have no use for an SD card, you've had 8 iPhones, 6 iPads and 4 iPad minis, none of which uses an SD card.
 
This explains why you have no use for an SD card, you've had 8 iPhones, 6 iPads and 4 iPad minis, none of which uses an SD card.

and a bunch of Macs with SD card slots - none of which i've ever had a cause to use.

Photographers I suppose - but the SD card on an phone isn't for them. 1. why would they use it? 2. its not in an easy accessible place on the S7 anyway. Why anyone needs more than 128gb of storage on a phone, especially when there is cloud storage too, is beyond me.
 
There are only a couple of issues with OLED and it's getting worked out over the next few years. hopefully if apple get into OLED they should get sorted quicker.

1) sub pixel matrix, they're wonky and often pentile.
2) ghosting, it's getting better but image retention is still an issue.
3) blue shift, i'm sure apple can fix it but that the OLED pixels are't equal in life and brightness causes many other issues.
4) Brightness, OLED can't be as bright as an LED without drawing a lot more power, especially on white bright UI like iOS
5) Unrealistic colours. To show off OLED as better most makers hype the saturation and contrast and sharpening. But I like many don't want weird colours, we want accuracy over the lifetime of the device without artefacts.
6) Price/scale. New factories need to open for it to be viable for apple to consider.

The downsides are pretty big still but there are plenty of advantages that make it the next step, but boy do IPS displays keep getting better too.

most of those were remedied last version in the S6 generation. But true for older ones.

1) The benefit of going 1440p, especially with Pentile arrangements is to prevent the Pentile arrangement from causing blockiness. when you're PPI is so ridiculously high, well beyond the threshold that you see with the naked eye (and not just at it). you don't have to worry much about a Pentile layout.

2) Ghosting / Burnin is a non-issue. Most users will not run their displays in the way that stores displays are run (100% brightness 24/7 on static images). LCD suffers from the same thing under similar conditions (I've ruined a couple TVs accidentally over my lifespan on pause menues)

3) No blue shifting on the S6 display. But was terrible on the Note II. not all shifting is 100% though, S6 for example can have a very very very fine "pink" shift on white under some angles. This is an area that can always be improved.

4) You'd be surprised how bright the S6 and S7 now have been rated at. Though I can't speak for power draw.

5) This is a misnomer and is software driven, not display driven. Samsung is notorious for "vivid unrealistic colours", but what most people don't realize is that this is a setting in Touchwiz that can be turned off. By default Samsung phones ship with what is called "Dynamic" colour mode, which does oversaturate contrast and colour. But in the settings is a "standard" and "photo" mode. The Photo mode has been tested to be just as accurate as LCD displays in it's RGB colourspace. As Anandtech tested during their S6 tests, that it was one of the most accurate and best displays they had ever tested.

6) Amen to this. But like any new tech, Economies of scale should help. Apple going OLED will only help the entire market make it cheaper to produce (Since they'd be ordering on such a large scale)
 
Its just a phone, i'm not glued to it like a teenager. Its just there for when its useful, I don't "consume media" on it. I text and and listen to music mainly (via bluetooth in the car) the rest of the time I use my Mac.

You could save a lot of money with an iPod and a dumb phone. Seriously. Clearly you are free to do whatever you want. I just find the "lack of looking at the screen" a viable argument.
 
and a bunch of Macs with SD card slots - none of which i've ever had a cause to use.

Photographers I suppose - but the SD card on an phone isn't for them. 1. why would they use it? 2. its not in an easy accessible place on the S7 anyway. Why anyone needs more than 128gb of storage on a phone, especially when there is cloud storage too, is beyond me.
Um ... data plans. Is that really a hard concept for people to grasp? Physical storage will always be required by those with limited data plans. Cell reception is also another issue.


Genuinely intersted to hear your example use case for an desktop like finder system in iOS...
Uh ... more functionality ... for starters. It opens the door to using your phone in other ways. Imagine using a desktop OS with no file system.
 
And once they do people will think Apple is the first to bring this to market.

If it didn't basically happen, i'd have said nahhh, but Apple already tried this ploy on the Apple watch, where they claimed that the Apple watched used a "magical new display technology"...

it's OLED

Nothing magical, nor new about it at this point. But yuou know, got to keep that reality distortion field going
 
Its just a phone, i'm not glued to it like a teenager. Its just there for when its useful, I don't "consume media" on it. I text and and listen to music mainly (via bluetooth in the car) the rest of the time I use my Mac.

Obviously a good reason to never improve the screen. I sure hardly any users "consume media" on their $700 smart phone.
 
You could save a lot of money with an iPod and a dumb phone. Seriously. Clearly you are free to do whatever you want. I just find the "lack of looking at the screen" a viable argument.

But then id have two devices? And a dumb phone wouldn't have all the messaging apps I use and visual voicemail.

i'm very happy with the iPhone I just don't scare at the screen continuously all day like kids and since about the iPhone 5 i've never once thought "I wish this screen was better quality" to be honest. We're talking incremental barely eye perceivable differences at this point, not the jump to retina that was which really wowed you. I don't think its going to impact my life at all at this point to have 20% more brightness on my phone.
 
Let me help your practical experience:

Apple has reportedly been "consulting with display makers" about OLED technology to eliminate potential drawbacks, which currently range from shorter lifespans to higher manufacturing costs than LCD displays.​
Let me help you. Where are the facts that support that aside from a macrumors writer stating it? Can you point me to any recent research that proves your point? I know how to read an article. I also know the difference between fluff and fact.
 
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Obviously a good reason to never improve the screen. I sure hardly any users "consume media" on their $700 smart phone.

Oh I know they do, they just tend to be under the ages of 22 I think. Any media I do watch on my phone are vines, short youtube videos and stuff on Facebook...which to be honest its not going to benefit from a better screen, they could all have benefit from a better camera though!
 
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