Here’s to hoping Apple's OLED color isn’t wacky like Samsung's.

[sumsingwong]

here's a pretty long hands-on vid that provides enough viewing angles..
seems pretty nice. what does bother me is that the phone looks so bulky and thick.
almost thought it had a case on it.
maybe in real life it's different.

After watching that video. It seems the X has a slight curve on the edges. I’ve read members on here don’t like the Infiniti edge displays on Samsung devices because the curved edges creates too much glare that is distracting. The glare on the edges according to that video was pretty distracting as well.

 

[KingslayerG5]

I have only seen the Note7 once at a store, and that was the best display I had ever seen. My S7e I got five months later never really popped like that compared to that Note7. Perhaps the black front of the Note7 helped as my S7e was silver.

Been using OLED since my Nexus One and Samsung Focus and never understood what the big deal was. I remember borrowing the PS Vita phat from my cousin and used to see black blotches on it. My Vita slim with the boring LCD is good enough and has better battery life.

Too many people overrate OLED too much even though I believe Note7 had the best screen ever. Haven't checked the Note8 long enough to compare it. If X gets a better display than that Note7, we are in for a treat.

LG Display has surpassed Samsung in TVs but not in mobile. I can see LG catch up in a couple years. Nice to see Sharp put 120hz on a smartphone while everyone is still left on 60. No worries. Samsung makes some good stuff albeit sometimes overrated.

 

[dallas112678]

That’s a whole lot of wall of text to say Samsung hides “better”
Colour management in the settings and defaults to crap (generally what Samsung does, defaults to crap, because they are crap)

I’ll keep my iPhone X that will likely have better and more accurate colour management as default without having to dig into settings.

“But samsung makes the X’s screen!!!” So, that means nothing. It’s still designed and built to Apple’s spec, Samsung just manufacturers it.

You say it's crap, but the there are all of these people and reviewers who are complaining that Google's OLED screen has those boring, muted and "realistic" colors. The majority of people like saturation, that's just reality. At least Samsung gives you the option for realistic or more saturated colors. There's a reason that vibrant TV's outsell TV's with dull color, and you'll see the vast majority of the time when TV's are on display, they are set to a more colorful profile.

Oh, and about the screen, you do realize that "built to spec" is simply "We want this brightness, this resolution, and this voltage".

They aren't designing anything and are essentially just telling Samsung to modify certain parameters of their displays to meet those criteria. Samsung will most likely modify an older generation panel, as they've never given a competitor the latest and greatest screen, as they keep those for themselves.

It truly is funny how so many people think because Apple is using an OLED, that this OLED will somehow be magical and solve all the issues associated with that tech. All the meanwhile, Apple has had massive uniformity problems on their LCD's with random parts of the screen being more yellow than the rest every single year.

 

[mib1800]

It truly is funny how so many people think because Apple is using an OLED, that this OLED will somehow be magical and solve all the issues associated with that tech. All the meanwhile, Apple has had massive uniformity problems on their LCD's with random parts of the screen being more yellow than the rest every single year.

Another word for magical is unreal...expectations. Just like the A11 chip with nearly twice benchmarks of 835 but with its un-magical real world usage performance is only just being similar. Or the unreal thinking that Apple eco-system has no equivalent and the high price premium is justified (when similar/simpler/non-proprietary equivalents are available at much cheaper cost). Or the unreal thinking that the iOS idiot-proof/idiosyncratic UI is easy to use and efficient (when most common work-flows take more steps and require workarounds).

 

[KingslayerG5]

Not too worried with the display after watching Jon Rettinger of TechnoBuffalo compare the Note8 v 8 Plus and then watch the 8 Plus beat Pixel 2 XL in a speed test on PhoneBuff.

Remember last year with the rumors of the X? It was being dubbed iPhone S8. Using Samsung's displays is the best in the mobile business. Better with them than LG right now.

 

[Ipadfever]

here's a pretty long hands-on vid that provides enough viewing angles..
seems pretty nice. what does bother me is that the phone looks so bulky and thick.
almost thought it had a case on it.
maybe in real life it's different.

You can see the Color shift at 17 seconds into that video, I have a galaxy tab s2 and it has the absolute worst off angle shifting.