If you care about display quality, (color accuracy, gamma, delta Max dE 2000, color temperature, max brightness) like I do. The iPhone 17 lineup is extremely disappointing. This is just anecdotal but I went to an Apple store in NYC area. I ran sysdiag, checked ioreg >IODevicetree and then “panel” all the iPhones I tested had LG displays. Only one regular iPhone 17(not pro) had a G9 Samsung. I tested around 4 iPhone 17 Pro Max (GV panel, LG), iPhone Air(GH panel, LG), iPhone 17 Pro(GV panel, LG) iPhone 17(G9 panel, Samsung). Could be they allocated more to LG for initial production and later will distribute the panels across Samsung and LG more 50/50? If you’re not familiar tier 1 display (best quality) is G9N(Samsung) followed by G9P(Samsung), GV, GH (LG tier 2,3). My iPhone 15 Pro Max with a G9P panel not even the best one looked significantly better than every single iPhone I compared it too. It was shocking just looking at the main settings page in iOS, the whites on my IP15PM looked whiter, brighter than every single new iPhone 17. Disappointing. I guess Apple had to do some cost cutting to mitigate their tariff costs without raising the prices of the new devices.
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iPhone 17 Pro Max iPhone 17, Air, Pro, Pro Max display quality compared to iPhone 15 Pro Max (Bad news)
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They’ve been using both suppliers for years and the “tier” assignment of which prefixes anecdotally looked better than others has also been different year to year. We’ll need some empirical testing to see what the case is this year. Anecdotally my Air screen (GV) looks as good as my 16PM screen (G9) and my partner’s 16PM screen (LG) to my eye. Haven’t compared to their 17PM yet