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iPhone 14 Pro Max Earns Best Smartphone Display Award, Replacing iPhone 13 Pro Max
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So, To sum up, Apple got a Samsung display and put a lot of effort into tuning up and making it operate better than Samsung bothers for its own devices with the same display.
Interesting observation. It would appear that they get enough money from Apple to not bother about anything else. They used to declare every new Samsung and Apple phone as having the best display, now they test only Apple phones and, logically, declare its display the best (with just one competotor, how can't it win?).
More likely Samsung doesn’t provide them with devices anymore because they’re afraid of the outcome compared to the iPhone.
Considering Android has a garbage implementation of color management vs iOS, it’s gonna be no contest even with identical displays.
By "lot of users", you mean a very tiny faction of a percentage of users.
Here I am hoping for a LCD model, they have 4 phones, why cant one be LCD? Im keeping my 11 because of this
LCD does not deliver the vibrant colors Apple wants from their smartphone displays, and it has issues with battery life because you can't turn off individual pixels.
I will agree that the number of users who experience an immediate, noticeable negative response probably is a small percentage. Even for me, as someone sensitive to flicker and light in general, only a handful of OLED iPhones have been immediately uncomfortable to use. The more sinister issue is for people who have a very mild negative response that builds over time. For me, that happened with the iPhone X. I used it for almost six months before I put two and two together maybe my phone was causing my daily tension headaches. Sure enough, once I switched to the XR when it was released, headaches went away.
I've had friends comment about how they get a lot of headaches from all the computer usage they have to do these days and I wonder if it's actually their mobile device causing them the most problems and they just don't know it. Or a computer monitor with poorly implemented PWM dimming. Apple talks all the time about how they take their users' health and wellness seriously. Apple Watch and iPhone are leaning into that with crash detection and emergency SOS. Yet, after five years, they still don't have an accessibility option to use DC dimming on their OLEDs. It's very frustrating for those of us who just want to use new devices (Apple or otherwise) and can't because this gets overlooked. Apple feels like the most likely to recognize the issue and eventually implement a solution. They makes incredible displays and we just want to be able to appreciate them as well! Thus we complain about PWM each year, haha.
iPhone 14 Pro Max Earns Best Smartphone Display Award, Replacing iPhone 13 Pro Max, and Wins Most Boring Name Award for Second Successive Year.
I know this is quite off topic, and maybe it's just me... but every time I see an image with those particular iOS wallpapers, I can't help but feel like I'm looking at a nostalgic inversion of the old CRT iMacs.
Not Exactly... the new panel tech by Samsung isn't out on their own phones yet, the 13 series and s22 series are on the same generation, so it's not fair to compare to anything out yet. The comparable Samsung panel for their own phones, won't come until the s23 series, in a few months
Did something change in the color management on iOS or Android in the last two years? Because before that every Samsung flagship was labeled as having the best display.
DispayMate tests the capability of the display. It’s like testing speakers for a home stereo. Two sets of speakers could both have excellent capabilities. One set is stuck in the corner of a room while the other set has had its position calculated after measuring the room acoustics and also has a specific EQ applied to match to room. That’s the audio equivalent of color management.
Samsung wasn’t labeled as having the best display. They had the best for a short time (when new tech comes out) and as soon as the iPhone was released with the new tech it passed the Samsung. iPhone and Samsung with equivalent panels iPhone still comes out on top.
The "DisplayMate Best Smartphone Display Award" for the last 2 years only tested Apple displays so it's really a completely self centred award and is irrelevant for use as any comparison check against any other OEM
All this is telling you as you would expect Apple screens appear to improve year on year mainly thanks to Samsung technology improvements in screens provided for iPhones
The real question is why Samsung hasn’t provided them with any devices to test? Surely if they were the best Samsung would be rushing them a sample even before launch so the results would coincide with reviews.
Any competent and reliable test would be independent and not reliant on freebies or perhaps like us Samsung realise the validity of these awards is 0 and not worthy