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Get your Samsung panel iPad ASAP before LG & Sharp start shipping their displays!!
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From looking at the serial number, how can you tell when your iPad was made?
Thanks for your help.
I found this link to determine the information contained in your ipad serial number.
http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html
According to that link here are the details of mine.
Group1: iPad
Group2: WiFi
Generation:
ModelCode:
Model introduced: 2012
Production year: 2012
Production week: 2 (January)
introduced test: GOED
Screen size: 9 inch
Colour: White
Capacity: 16GB
Factory: DL (China - Foxconn)
Should I assume I have a Samsung panel?
http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html
According to that link here are the details of mine.
Group1: iPad
Group2: WiFi
Generation:
ModelCode:
Model introduced: 2012
Production year: 2012
Production week: 2 (January)
introduced test: GOED
Screen size: 9 inch
Colour: White
Capacity: 16GB
Factory: DL (China - Foxconn)
Should I assume I have a Samsung panel?
The samsung screens have a more neutral/warmer hue than the Sharp or LG screens. So many people complain about how dull or yellow the whites are. The new ipad's have these samsung screens. So we can all be on the lookout for a ton of stupid threads about how "yellow" the new ipad's screen is. In fact, these samsung screens have better color reproduction, saturation, and a 6500, white point setting. Some people prefer the cool bluish tint of the lg screens over the samsung screens in the older ipad 2 (you could get either lg or samsung), but for now it seems that the new ipad's are shipping with Samsung screens only (unconfirmed). So many are noticing that the new ipad screens seem "drity/yellowish." This isn't glue, this is intentional color profile settings for the screen.
Not better than the Kuro. They are on par but even cheap Plasmas have just as good blacks. OLED will fix this but then you have to deal with un-natural colors.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B176 Safari/7534.48.3)
I agree I'm enjoying the hell out of this screen so far colors pop, no insanely terrible bleeding, or dead pixels.
They definitely got it right this time the "backlight bleed" seems to have finally been a addressed and is a thing of the past. That is until like you say hopefully other crappy manufacturers don't take over to cut costs down the line.
I agree I'm enjoying the hell out of this screen so far colors pop, no insanely terrible bleeding, or dead pixels.
They definitely got it right this time the "backlight bleed" seems to have finally been a addressed and is a thing of the past. That is until like you say hopefully other crappy manufacturers don't take over to cut costs down the line.
LOL, yeah keep telling yourself that.
Take a look at this comparison. Hint the screen on the right is made by....SAMSUNG:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/14538935/
I'd take that beautiful white sammy screen over a yellow ipad screen any day.
Why is it so hard for apple to enforce a very specific color calibration, I mean all of this yellow tinting is just purely calibration issues. I was using a friend's Ipad2 for a week and w/o comparing it to anything else I can definitely see its very yellow. As well as the 4 demo units on the retail store. Comparing it side by side with a Galaxy Tab10.1 makes the difference even obvious, props to samsung for the PLS screen on the Tab10.1 for being able to show proper white tones, but their black levels are a bit glossy.
What I don't get is all these people thinking the "yellow" is not intentional. I mean sure there might be cases where it is actually yellow, but to me I just see the display on my iPad as having a warmer backlight, leading to deeper colors.
Something people don't realize is that the backlight is what caused the blue "cold tint" on the previous iPad because of the all white LED backlighting.
On the new iPad, I think they are using true RGB LEDs, or at least white ones that are slightly tweaked. This produces a much wider color gamut (in line with Apple's 33% more color saturation claim). Previous to LED backlighting on LCDs manufacturers used CCFL which produced warmer RGB backlighting.
But hey, I fully admit I am just a display enthusiast and not a color expert. Again I am not saying the "yellowing" is or isn't a legit issue, but at least I am offering something more than "it's broke, me mad!"
Just my two cents.
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Isn't Sharp using the IGZO manufacturing process that is supposed to deliver higher quality, more energy efficient screens? I read that was why they needed more time to get their yields up.
I was actually thinking of waiting to try and get a Sharp display.
I was actually thinking of waiting to try and get a Sharp display.
Maybe because there is nothing on the box or documentation that says, screen may appear yellowish than others, thats probably it?
But on a more serious note, I think a lot of people would prefer to have whites that are actually white and not a mustard stain.
People dont need to realize the underlying technology, 99% of them will never care, if they see some screens are not warm or have better white tones they will always go for those said screens.
Occam's Razor, since the other device is not yellow hence the yellow ones are defective/broken. If its intentional or with in specifications why cant Apple publish those as part of the specification like what sony does? Sony considers backlight bleeding and clouding on their HDTV to be part of the specifications, they also publish that dead pixels, stuck pixels and mura lines are not considered a defect on the PSVita.
Because Apple would never talk about it unless this somehow becomes a big issue and gets attention in the media. At the end of the day, it is about making money, and stooping to the level of the people complaining is a bad idea. This is why they are offering replacements for anybody that comes in complaining about yellows, it's all about making the customer happy so they keep selling more.
That still doesn't mean that the warmer temps isn't intentional. It could be done by the display manufacture and Apple just simply approved the display without making a big deal about it. If it is as common as people claim, you can be sure that Apple knows and approved the specs. They probably are more nitpicky than most people give them credit for. Sure flaws will always emerge, but if so much attention was paid to the display this time around, the hope was that they would be minor.
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Even in a month many (most) of the screens will be made by Samsung. If you buy an iPad and don't like the screen then return it. The percentage of perfectionists (or more likely OCD cases) drawn to apple products is sort of comical.