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iPhone 7's 'Best LCD Display Ever' Marks 'Major Upgrade Over iPhone 6'
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And I'm a photographer with a fussy eye, and a systems engineer who understands color science. And can easily notice the difference.
I'll make my own decision for what's right for me. And you can make yours.
It's all about subpixels. That is why Pentile got such a bad name in early OLED displays. It was tech developed to reduce screen burn at at the expense of image quality. Basically it has 2/3 the subpixel as a true RGB display.
They were forced to drive up resolution to maintain decent image quality.
If you compare the Note 7 to an IPhone 7+, you see about a 10% advantage of subpixels but it has to work the GPU twice as hard to obtain that slight advantage.
Wow, I must have hit a nerve! Why can't you accept that Apple's flagship iPhone isn't the leader on every front? I can be happy with my 6 Plus despite knowing that there are devices out there that beat it at practically everything. See that's what I'm talking about regarding fanbois, they just have to have Apple ahead in everything that matters, so if Apple are behind on some tech then it's explained away as "not signficant".
So you think I was putting down your eyesight even though I gave an alternate explanation: "So if you're eyesight isn't good enough, or your usage pattern doesn't take advantage of it." See what I did there? I included a clause that includes the people use their devices in ways that make high dpi displays meaningless! And that's wonderful, it means that pixel density has finally advanced to a place that satisfies many users. What an exciting time to be alive, eh? But the other side of the coin is that some people can benefit from even greater dpi, and that's great too because it drives technology to greater heights. So just because YOU don't benefit from a certain technology doesn't mean that nobody else does. Accept it and move on with your life.
The apparent extra "vividness" and "contrast" of most of the Galaxy phones is exaggerated because they tend towards oversaturation. Like most features of smart phones, whether that makes a difference to you is all that matters. The problem with oversaturation is that sometimes things just look wrong. Trump is noticeably more orange, for example. Maybe that's okay with you. However, if you have a lot of friends who lean towards orange, they're going to look wrong on your phone vs. what you see in real life. On the flip side... if you take a lot of pictures of fruit, you might appreciate a bit of oversaturation to make the fruit look more "vivid".
The thing is, a lot of photographers when they edit their photos will kick up the saturation, contrast, clarity, etc., a little for just that reason. So when you look at edited photos... you get double dipping on the saturation. But at any rate... if you look at Displaymate's tests on the S7 and S7 Edge, you'll see that they have JCND 1.6. Worse than the iPhone 7. So... *shrugs* Again, it really comes down to your own personal taste. I prefer Apple's methodology of trying to get closer to accurate to Samsung's method of artificially making the screen look 'better' by making it less accurate. Many will not care.
Except that is not what the reviewers said. They said in several metrics the iPhone was better than ANY other smartphone. OLED has some nice advantages for a phone, but Apple is still among the very best displays.
My guess is that it's not cheap and an iPad needs it more being that it is likely to be used lying flat, compared to an iPhone that is being held.
Dong dong dong.
The brightest is not even close to the same, forget the 25% extra.
Hello, we been through this days ago folks on other threads.
I thought display mate said iPhone 7 was the best.
Can't wait until mine arrives.
When are you getting yours?
This is why I'm skeptical of Apple going OLED. It offers better performance but at a cost in reliability. As someone who updates my iPhone every 3 years I'm not sure OLED is for me. But if you update every year then sure, OLED will rock.
It's a comparison of what is real to what you are seeing on the screen. So if you take a picture of a tree, and hold the picture next to the tree, it's almost perfect in color match.
Very interesting. I have noticed that myself but didn't realize it was part of the "technology".
I was always a proponent of "reasonable resolution" displays. Anything much over 300 PPI, what Apple calls the "retina" display, just can't be distinguished by the human eye at normal reading distance. Phones with higher resolution displays simply don't provide much benefit to the TYPICAL user, and suffer from greater challenges with:
One application that higher PPI can really benefit is VR. Strap an iPhone 7 Plus into a pair of VR goggles and you can see the patterning or "screen door" effect due to the magnification of the optics. The recent Samsung Galaxy S and Note series, > 500 PPI, do better. And Sony's Xperia X5 Premium at 4k (800 PPI) is really spectacular.
Fortunately the endless march of technology is providing solutions to the above problems. 4K will eventually come to iPhone, too. Until then, don't even think twice about it unless you use your phone in VR goggles.
- Battery life
- Screen refresh rate (jerky, "stepped" motions of on-screen elements)
- Memory consumption
- Heat generation
- Cost
One application that higher PPI can really benefit is VR. Strap an iPhone 7 Plus into a pair of VR goggles and you can see the patterning or "screen door" effect due to the magnification of the optics. The recent Samsung Galaxy S and Note series, > 500 PPI, do better. And Sony's Xperia X5 Premium at 4k (800 PPI) is really spectacular.
Fortunately the endless march of technology is providing solutions to the above problems. 4K will eventually come to iPhone, too. Until then, don't even think twice about it unless you use your phone in VR goggles.
That's right - the super super advanced review with tons of scientific equipment, tables, charts and data - that means JACK! I see where you are going with this.
You keep screaming you're a photographer... and you care about accuracy. Then why aren't you using a phone that supports Adobe RGB Color Gamut? You know, the color gamut that is 17% larger than the Standard sRGB/Rec.709 Color Gamut. The same Adobe RGB Color Gamut used in higher end photography.
I mean a fussy photographer would care.
You're probably not very fussy, so it probably doesn't matter as much.
If you want oversaturated gaudy colours then go for the Samsung.
Having seen one of my photos on both phones over the weekend and compared them to my calibrated iLyama display the Samsung is dog poo.
Back in the days of film, we described Fuji as the film for the Beach where the kids were playing with a red ball under a blue sky.
OTOH, Kodachrome was the one where colour accuracy was needed.
Seeing that picture on the phones reminded me of those days.
I think you're missing my point. I don't care one little bit if Apple is the king of something or not. I'm not going to go on and on because it's obvious I am not explaining my point. I find it to be an exciting time to be alive but for different reasons. Have a good one.
Actually, the next step is microLED or mLED. It is 30x brighter than OLED, doesn't have burn in, and has a much longer life span. Apple bought the company that produces it about 2 years ago...with that in mind, do you really believe Apple is ever going to switch to amoled?
It's in the the article - carrying the phone in your pocket and the specifics of smartphone usage scenarios preclude the possibility of applying the current anti reflective coating as being easily scratched.
Still it's a viable option for tablets as you only seldom let your cat play the occasional game on it, right?
Heck, after taking the screen protector off my 6 plus for a day I've already had a fair share of micro abrasions and I don't live on a beach.
Remember the whole coating issues on Retina MBPs?
It's interesting that you say this because the Android fanbase said the same thing about the first Retina display - that it didn't matter.
Many people consider over-processing and HDR to be attractive. I think we've just reached a point in time where people have to be blown away by everything or else it doesn't mean anything to them.