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iPhone 6 Plus Display Judged 'Best Smartphone LCD Ever Tested', iPhone 6 Also Solid

Teste said:
Funny to see the Apple fanboys changing their speech from "anything above Retina resolution is completely worthless, you can't tell the difference!" to "OMG, the iPhone 6+ resolution is SOOOO great!!!111!!" :rolleyes:
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The fanboys will accept anything that's given to them without question. They don't even need to give them a reason. The fanboys will create the reasons themselves!

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ugp said:
I got the 4.7" 64GB and I am loving it. Screen looks incredible. Played a High Quality encode of Avatar on it and it was gorgeous.
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Welcome to HD resolution
 
Not to discredit the iPhone 6 LCD display (It's great, iPhones LCD are always excellent), but I prefer the Super AMOLED screen used in my Note 3 phone ;)
 
I8P'CS said:
iPhone 6+ "best LCD" display Samsung Note 4 "best OLED display" Both winning both can brag. it's that simple
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"While the "best ever" designation includes the caveat of applying to LED displays and DisplayMate continues to rate the OLED display from the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 as the best overall smartphone display, the gains seen in the iPhone 6 and particularly the iPhone 6 Plus are impressive."

Good, but not great.
 
Christian 5G said:
Played around on 6 and 6 plus on the weekend and to me they 6 screen looked better, more sharp for some reason. The plus was a bit brighter.

To me it was noticeable for some reason.
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True. I think this also may be in part to the noticable UI lag on the 6+.

Anyone interested in the 6+ would be better waiting the extra 9 months to get the S, the A8 cannnot handle the 6+. Not at all.

:apple:
 
Lousawyer6 said:
android users will still be like, "but its only 1080p" lol gtfo
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1080p is a good tradeoff between quality and battery life but it's not the best. I mean even the LG G3 is IPS and 2k resolution. Galaxy Note 4 has the best screen and don't you forget it!
 
I wasn't really expecting much difference in the display between my 5s and the new 6 other than the size increase, but I was really impressed with how well it performs in direct sunlight. Great job!
 
alitarbegshe said:
Soo

The display isn't as good overall as the Note 4.

Four pages of comments, and this point is conveniently ignored.

Selective reading at it's best.
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You're right, but I'd rather have a marginally inferior display than Android. Been there. Done that. Hated it.
 
boy709 said:
I got my 6 on launch day. loving it…
but from reading all the comments about 720 is right 1080 is right for plus, etc…

I wonder what people is gonna say when Apple puts 1080p on next iPhone 7 and 2k or even 4k on 7 plus…

I never missed a version of iPhone from the first iPhone launch, and own many other apple products… but Its just so funny that these apple fanboyz making excuses for stuff they don't know about.. XD

I think it was the iPhone 4 AD that I made comment about years ago… AD was about iPhone being perfect size for your hand… and I asked… what are they gonna say when the iPhone gets bigger?? your hands grew, so iPhone is bigger for you? I still got the 4 on launch day, but yeah...
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Hopefully, if/when there's a 4k display (2k is 1080p, using the same axis 4k does for that measurement), there will be far more content than there is today to make it worthwhile. As a separate product entirely, we can all go out an buy a 4k TV today... but what exactly are we going to do with it?

The same holds true to screen sizes; with an app catalog the size of theirs, what was the benefit at the time to increase from 3.5"? When Android narrowed the app gap, there was more content available and use-case scenarios to justify the increase to at least 16:9. Sometimes it's cool to be the leader, but others it's just better to be the follower. Being a follower often allows for a mastery of function and execution.
 
iChrist said:
True. I think this also may be in part to the noticable UI lag on the 6+.

Anyone interested in the 6+ would be better waiting the extra 9 months to get the S, the A8 cannnot handle the 6+. Not at all.

:apple:
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Its more likely that the UI lag is because its an initial release of a new OS and not that the 6+ is underpowered. I am sure a weaker chip powers more pixels on the iPad 3/4 and Air just fine
 
tdream said:
Welcome to HD resolution
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You are the type of guy who kept saying in 2010-2011 with his presumably inferior 480 x 800 res screen phone that iPhone 4's retina display was just a gimmick, right? I think most of the fandroids who now keep bashing the resolution of the iPhone are the ones who suffered from an inferiority complex back in 2010-2011 when every android phone had trashy screen compared to the iPhone 4/4S.
 
Teste said:
Funny to see the Apple fanboys changing their speech from "anything above Retina resolution is completely worthless, you can't tell the difference!" to "OMG, the iPhone 6+ resolution is SOOOO great!!!111!!" :rolleyes:
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Anything above 400 DPI or so IS quite worthless, you CANNOT tell the difference in actual use (you barely can above 300 DPI). And DPI is NOT the main reason these new iPhone screens are so good. ACCURATE (not just bright-but-wrong) color and great viewing angles are much more important.

The iPhone 6 Plus renders (most?) content much higher than the 401 DPI, and that overage IS worthless, even harmful, in many ways. (It's useful for software reasons, allowing developers to have 3x assets.) Luckily, the 6+ still delivers great battery life and real-world speed even so. Not a deal-breaker, then. But, if it were not rendering those wasteful pixels, it would be EVEN faster and run EVEN longer. These are the engineering trade-offs that someone had to decide on. As an Apple fan, I wish no such trade-off had been needed. (I certainly don't wish the Plus had more than 1080p pixels burning battery.) I don't think you'll find Apple fans denying these facts exist, though. You may be seeking a strawman...

Note: one reason you CAN benefit from even higher DPI on many Android devices: they use low-quality OLED "Pentile" displays which have an ugly checkerboard effect. The checkerboard is TWICE the size of the pixels. So if "real" RGB pixels (used in better screens like Apple's) become invisible by 400 DPI, it make sense that Pentile might show the checkerboard defect (kind of a diagonal "screen door effect") up to much higher DPI. Higher DPI hides the Pentile problem better. So, by choosing poor but cheap Pentile displays, Android-handset engineers have their own performance- and battery-sucking trade-offs to face. Even the upcoming flagship Note 4 retains this cheap display compromise supposedly, hard as it is to believe. (OLED is not bad in all ways: in some ways it's good, in others it suffers. But Pentile? Bad!)
 
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boy709 said:
I got my 6 on launch day. loving it…
but from reading all the comments about 720 is right 1080 is right for plus, etc…

I wonder what people is gonna say when Apple puts 1080p on next iPhone 7 and 2k or even 4k on 7 plus…

I never missed a version of iPhone from the first iPhone launch, and own many other apple products… but Its just so funny that these apple fanboyz making excuses for stuff they don't know about.. XD

I think it was the iPhone 4 AD that I made comment about years ago… AD was about iPhone being perfect size for your hand… and I asked… what are they gonna say when the iPhone gets bigger?? your hands grew, so iPhone is bigger for you? I still got the 4 on launch day, but yeah...
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A 2K screen on a phone is absurd and beyond unnecessary IMO. Even if you shot 2K video you wouldn't be able to see the difference because the pixels are too small.
 
BuffaloTF said:
Hopefully, if/when there's a 4k display (2k is 1080p, using the same axis 4k does for that measurement), there will be far more content than there is today to make it worthwhile. As a separate product entirely, we can all go out an buy a 4k TV today... but what exactly are we going to do with it?

The same holds true to screen sizes; with an app catalog the size of theirs, what was the benefit at the time to increase from 3.5"? When Android narrowed the app gap, there was more content available and use-case scenarios to justify the increase to at least 16:9. Sometimes it's cool to be the leader, but others it's just better to be the follower. Being a follower often allows for a mastery of function and execution.
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It's not an ideal situation but eventually it had to be done. Might as well get it out of the way now as early as smoothly as possible. They weren't going to use this awkward resolution forever. It probably costs Apple a lot more to cut custom panels for all the iPhones now they can use much of the same fabrication setups as the rest of industry. And like you said easier to bump into 4k. I think :apple: will wait until 4k screens are fully developed in smartphones before committing. I don't think they want to do 2k, Apple will probably stay on 1080p for a long time. Maybe 3 years
 
nfl46 said:
But...But....the iPhone 6+ ONLY has a 1080P screen resolution...that's so two years ago.
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Not sure if you are serious or not. Not 1080progressive, but p as in pixels.

EDIT: Actually, after skimming through the thread, many many other people are making the same incorrect assumption.
 
Rogifan said:
Is that based in seeing them both side by side?
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Yes of course. Bought a 6 and 6 Plus this weekend. Poor is too strong a word, but I should have said "a good, but not great screen." The 6 screen looks good until you see the 6 Plus. There is a discernable difference between the screens.
 
MrXiro said:
A 2K screen on a phone is absurd and beyond unnecessary IMO. Even if you shot 2K video you wouldn't be able to see the difference because the pixels are too small.
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Nope absolutely not absurd. In a few years we'll probably be looking back in disgust at these low resolution 1080p screens, how did we ever manage with this archaic technology :D

One arena that has much further to go is VR tech, which co-incidentally Oculus uses the same Galaxy Note 3 panel in their Developer Kit 2. Galaxy Note 4 is used in the Gear VR which Samsung partnered with Oculus for development with none other than the father of fps gaming himself John Carmack. Without Carmack's involvement it the Gear VR would be a poor version of Google Cardboard but thanks to John, it's a heck of a lot better.

VR requires as much resolution as is possibly available up to 8k and beyond. Remember you're sharing one half of the screen with each eye, so the more pixels the better. I'm glad to see Samsung is innovating in VR. I can't wait until I get my hands on the Gear VR. VR is definitely the future. I mean what does the iPhone 6 do that your current phone can't? Same glacier speed of improvement and window dressing every year. So boring.
 
MuseumVisitor said:
iPhone 6+ is a tablet. iPhone 6 is a phone. It should not be compared.
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6 Plus isn't a tablet. Service providers, Apple, and the fact it makes and receives phone calls identically to the 6 pretty much dictate you're wrong. It's also a little larger than a 6 but significantly smaller than an iPad (mini or full size) so pretty much everything circumstantial as well as outright proof is working against your theory here.
 
nagromme said:
Anything above 400 DPI or so IS quite worthless, you CANNOT tell the difference in actual use (you barely can above 300 DPI). And DPI is NOT the main reason these new iPhone screens are so good. ACCURATE (not just bright-but-wrong) color and great viewing angles are much more important.

The iPhone 6 Plus renders (most?) content much higher than the 401 DPI, and that overage IS worthless, even harmful, in many ways. (It's useful for software reasons, allowing developers to have 3x assets.) Luckily, the 6+ still delivers great battery life and real-world speed even so. Not a deal-breaker, then. But, if it were not rendering those wasteful pixels, it would be EVEN faster and run EVEN longer. These are the engineering trade-offs that someone had to decide on. As an Apple fan, I wish no such trade-off had been needed. (I certainly don't wish the Plus had more than 1080p pixels burning battery.) I don't think you'll find Apple fans denying these facts exist, though. You may be seeking a strawman...

Note: one reason you CAN benefit from even higher DPI on many Android devices: they use low-quality OLED "Pentile" displays which have an ugly checkerboard effect. The checkerboard is TWICE the size of the pixels. So if "real" RGB pixels (used in better screens like Apple's) become invisible by 400 DPI, it make sense that Pentile might show the checkerboard defect (kind of a diagonal "screen door effect") up to much higher DPI. Higher DPI hides the problem better. So, by choosing poor but cheap Pentile displays, Android-handset engineers have their own performance- and battery-sucking trade-offs to face. Even the upcoming flagship Note 4 retains this cheap display compromise supposedly, hard as it is to believe.
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It's so bad it's being used as the screen technology of choice by Oculus and Samsung for VR. You know where you magnify the pixels with lenses and get right up close and personal. I mean DisplayMate, the people who test screens for a living said it's the best screen ever beating every other phone including Apple's latest and greatest. But I'm sure you're right, it's terrible stuff altogether :rolleyes:

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mrbyu said:
You are the type of guy who kept saying in 2010-2011 with his presumably inferior 480 x 800 res screen phone that iPhone 4's retina display was just a gimmick, right? I think most of the fandroids who now keep bashing the resolution of the iPhone are the ones who suffered from an inferiority complex back in 2010-2011 when every android phone had trashy screen compared to the iPhone 4/4S.
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No, that was the last bit of innovation from Apple in my eyes. I bought the iPhone 4 on release day. The best iPhone ever imo.
 
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