Using opening apps to gauge the performance of a phone, is like gauging the performance of a car by how many turns of the crank the engine takes to start.
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iPhone 11 Pro Max Outperforms Competing Smartphones to Earn DisplayMate's Highest Ever A+ Grade
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A13 is everything it’s hyped up to be. That’s why so many people are raging. They just can’t stand knowing the iPhone is the fastest device around.
Glad you brought this up. Seems to be absent from DisplayMate’s review, along with high refresh rate / ProMotion. iPhone 11 Pro Max rightly earns high marks on the metrics tested, but they clearly omitted or overlooked some important ones.
They are. It's not a Apple screen, it's a Samsung screen. Furthermore, it's just Ray Soneira cashing his marketing check from Apple like every year, as his actual report doesn't show its better than Note 10. It's only brighter in manual brightness, everything else the Note 10 scores higher.
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Indeed. Furthermore, how can they raise the bar in color accuracy when according to their own test, the Note 10 in natural mode is even far more color accurate.
And now actually also read the whole report and compare color accuracy with Note 10's Natural mode...
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I've actually seen several videos now where last year's model beats iPhone 11. Poor show, that's for sure
I've actually seen several videos now where last year's model beats iPhone 11. Poor show, that's for sure
It's not even perfect color accuracy! The Note 10 in natural mode is far more accurate even! Read the damn report
Actually, the real reason they exist is to make money either directly or indirectly for the publishers of such videos. That is their sole purpose. The more controversial the more it gets shared. There is no journalistic integrity involved, nor standards-based testing methodologies.
But yes, people seem to lap it up and oddly (to me) put meaning to them.
Lol, it took almost doubling prices for Apple to reach and slightly overtake the competition regarding screens. Good for them.
Do you always enjoy distorting the truth? Please do show me one model at half the price with the same attributes. And also include the cost for manufacturing...
Sure, compare the screen of a OnePlus 7 Pro (a 700 € smartphone) to the screen of an 11 Pro Max (at 1400 €). The OnePlus came out half a year before the iPhone at that!
OnePlus 7 Pro matches or sets 10 Smartphone Display Performance Records, earning DisplayMate’s highest ever A+ grade.
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For me the entirety of the iPhone vs Oneplus 7 makes the iPhone worth the price.
Same for me, that's why I have an iPhone 11.
But the article is about screen quality and my original comment stands – it takes Apple twice as much money to achieve what the competition already had.
That is not the same attributes though. Sure the OnePlus 7 Pro has got a great screen. A friend of mine bought it when it came out. A really nice phone indeed. And yes it got the same rating for the screen. The screen of the OnePlus is even bigger and has higher resolution, albeit more reflective, more mirror like, brightness levels only reach about half that of the iPhone, still good but don't underestimate the significant improvement there from the iPhone. And even when you put the OnePlus in high brightness mode it doesn't come close. Then there is the contract rating, again about half that of the iPhone 11 Pro. Both are very close to the standard for colour production as long as the OnePlus is put into the Natural mode.
Both are very good, but ultimately, a phone is made up of more than just a screen. Saying that if I couldn't use iOS I'd probably would go for the OnePlus....
Lol you are so wrong. This is 100 % Samsung's design and technology. They have over 5000 patents on there oled technology.
This is just there latest panel design and will get better with the next galaxy phone (4k) and this iphone just fit the window to get there best screen in between there galaxy phones.
The next note will have a 4k screen
Well, a display panel is "just" a display panel. It must be top class on its own, like those provided to Apple by both LG and Samsung, but at the end of the day it "just" offers an ordered matrix of responsive organic materials that light up when a current is applied. In its basic form, a display needs a HW driver to pilot the emitter. On top of this, Apple integrates a lot more to the bare panel. Just to mention one feature, it provides sensors to enable True Tone mapping; they read the environment lightning and instruct the driver to compensate and adapt color, brightness, saturation and contrast at each screen refresh. The balancing mix of contrast, brightness and luminance it's a choice of the integrator and can be "static" (done once and forever) or "dynamic". Apple chose the latter.
Samsung has a "TV-set" approach, where they pump up color saturation to increase the psychological perception of contrast (especially for primary colors against black). It's eye catching but sometimes quite far from reality. Apple privileges more natural color nuances and a slightly less aggressive contrast. It's a choice and both are granted to have success as different people look for a different feeling and appreciate different visual sensations.
Nonetheless, when it comes to objective measurement, subjectiveness goes into trash. You want to measure how close to match the reality you are, how much the signals hold their originating counterpart, and so on. You don't want a broadcasting camera to enhance arbitrarily certain characteristics of the scene it is framing. In this regard, Apple is way better than Samsung as its own display management strategy seems to be less consumer-oriented than the latter. Again, it's a choice of the phone manufacturers but objective measurements are done against references, not subjective tastes. iPhone 11 Pro display is objectively better than that of Samsung Note 10+, even if one could prefer the latter.
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If the display performance was all Samsung, the Note 10 would have the highest rate display, but it doesn’t. Also, still surprised Android folks really still grasp to the YouTube “real world tests”, which have no relevance at all. Talk about desperate times. Just enjoy your product and lay off competitor sites.
The screen is great, looking at it, it might very well be the best display around. Now if one the GIGANTIC Bezels and Notch wouldnt be there it would be an absolutly stunning phone. The way the pro's look right now is just... dated.
I REALLY wanted to update, but this is such a turnoff for me.
I REALLY wanted to update, but this is such a turnoff for me.
But it's still an Apple phone, so what difference does it make? Surely the salient point is that iPhone currently has the best display, irrespective of who makes it. We're talking about the best display in a smart phone, not a "my dad's bigger than your dad" fanboy face-off.
Note 10+ actually got the same highest rating from Displaymate and if you compare individual results you would see that Note 10+ mostly didn't have lower individual results compared to the iphone 11 pro max.