Not really. Its well known Apple has a contract with Samsung for the 5.8 OLED display. Also, you do realize that Apple calibrates their displays accordingly as well, so it’s not necessarily just a Samsung display, as Apple has them tuned to their specification.
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iPad Pro and iPhone X Win 'Displays of the Year' Awards
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Not really. Its well known Apple has a contract with Samsung for the 5.8 OLED display. Also, you do realize that Apple calibrates their displays accordingly as well, so it’s not necessarily just a Samsung display, as Apple has them tuned to their specification.
The S9 display released in 2018 (ergo no qualifyinq for the award), is rated as a higher quality display than than iPhoneX.
I have it enabled and have no desire to turn it off. Going to get an iPad Pro this year if the rumours about thin bezels this year are true, then I’ll have TrueTone everywhere. Except on the Mac I suppose, but that’s always in the same place, I might just calibrate it to match my phone’s screen.
Bought the 10.5 because of the display, didn't really need the other features - or "wouldn't pay for the other features". However the display was worth every penny.
They do. But the iPad has been so dominant in the tablet sector over the years, that Samsung has literally dropped all their marketing for the tablet Series. Aside from the displays being Stark and excellent with the iPad, the architecture and performance is amazing. The iPad just never seems to fail and they last forever.
And no one's stopping you from getting a Note 8.....
Sure, would you mind explaining what parts of the iPhone X's are "designed" by Apple, and not based on Samsung?'s It's fairly widely known that Apple's displays are slightly different in only a few aspects, such calibration, brightness, pixel arrangement (also based on Samsung's diamond pentile), or otherwise, it's more or less identical Samsung displays.
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I'm somewhat surprised - I have an iPhone 4 and put my phone next to an iPhone X on display in a phone store, put both displays on the maximum brightness and there wasn't as huge of a difference that I expected.
[I'm very much a non-technical person btw]
[I'm very much a non-technical person btw]
Wasn’t there an article here a few weeks ago about the Samsung S9’s display being slightly better calibrated according to some display testing site?
But this is for 2017 only. The X had a better display than the note 8 as rated by display mate.
The S9 came out in 2018 so isn’t considered here.
Kind of strange that.
After a few years of using iPhones I switched to Android and the Galaxy S8 has the finest smartphone display I have ever seen.
After a few years of using iPhones I switched to Android and the Galaxy S8 has the finest smartphone display I have ever seen.
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Even so, do you think the consumer really cares about a slight difference in calibration over the other? Likely not. iPhone displays and Samsung’s displays are both excellent to be honest. It’s just a matter of how they’re both calibrated differently from both manufacturers.
All these awards that we don't hear about in years when Apple don't win them. Shirley just an oversight 
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My wife, the graphic artist, is super impressed with her iPad Pro's display.
Me, the photographer, does not like the OLED display in my iPhone X, and would much rather have the LCD panel in my 6+.
My wife, the graphic artist, is super impressed with her iPad Pro's display.
Me, the photographer, does not like the OLED display in my iPhone X, and would much rather have the LCD panel in my 6+.
Yes, but the 2nd gen iPhone X should beat this display in just a few months! Apple’s calibration is really some of the best in the business. I wish my TVs would come as well calibrated as the MBP and iPhone displays out of the box.
Lol. Calling the iPhone X display a Samsung display is just like calling the iPhone X a Foxconn phone.
Samsung is a contract manufacturer for this display. Apple didn’t purchase a Samsung part number, they sub-contracted Samsung to manufacture these displays, to Apple designed specifications/tolerances/etc. which then undergoes additional processes AFTER Apple receives the components from the manufacturer.
The difference between good and great typically comes from those tolerances and additional processes. Those things raise component prices because you have lower yields that meet spec. In addition, processing further beyond manufacturing raises cost more.
Those are the things that separate Apple displays from others. Not raw technology (OLED), but processing.
Samsung is a contract manufacturer for this display. Apple didn’t purchase a Samsung part number, they sub-contracted Samsung to manufacture these displays, to Apple designed specifications/tolerances/etc. which then undergoes additional processes AFTER Apple receives the components from the manufacturer.
The difference between good and great typically comes from those tolerances and additional processes. Those things raise component prices because you have lower yields that meet spec. In addition, processing further beyond manufacturing raises cost more.
Those are the things that separate Apple displays from others. Not raw technology (OLED), but processing.
That would be quite hard if you keep True Tone activated on your iPhone, constantly changing its white point depending on the ambient light situation.
Shouldn’t be a problem for Apple to include the True Tone algorithms into macOS but I guess they keep it to be marketed as a hardware-bound feature of an upcoming Mac generation, like they did with Siri on the iPhone.
No, we don’t need to pay for it. We want to, after we honestly make our money and make decisions as adults.
I agree. But you can design all you want, but if nobody can make it for you, then you are just stuck holding that paper diagram.. nothing more. Again, if you think all the kudos should go to apple, why didn't Apple go to LG to make it? After all, it's all about Apple's design, isn't it?
Manufacturing capacity, price, yield, backlog, terms, etc. Does LG even provide contract manufacturing for displays like Samsung?
Should kudos go to TSMC for manufacturing Apple's Ax processors used in iPhones and iPads, in TSMC's foundry?
I wouldn’t call them thick. But you’re right. There is no bezel-less phone. And honestly who cares? This obsession with bezels or screen to body ratio is so stupid.
That's the problem, any Android tablet out there is a downgrade from the iPad Pro!
I am looking for one only cos some of the games I play have proper widescreen support on Android as compared with the iPads (which are 4:3). This is pretty minor though; I was looking mostly out of curiosity