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Must of missed all of the complaints about yellow screens on the iPhone 7
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iPhones with OLED and possible screen burn [MERGED]
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Mine is perfect(in fact all my iPhones are perfect: 4, 5s, 6, 6s and 7), but burn in is inherent in OLED. "Yellow" screen is not inherent in LCD.
But burn-in in a week?
And considering how MacRumors members can tend to blow things out of proportion. I have had Apple directly tell me that the iPhone 7 has a much warmer tone/display over the other iPhone models. I have observed dozens of iPhone 7/7+ models that have a much warmer "Yellowish" tone and not a stark as the other displays on other iPhone models.
Some iPhone 7's perhaps were defective with a much stronger contrast of yellow, but I think the general consensus is that the iPhone 7 has a much warmer tone as noted.
This is going to suck for me b/c I set my screen to never go to sleep. I use my phone at work so I like to have the brightness down and screen on while I'm talking to someone so I can mute as needed. sometimes I forget and the screen stays on for a while or even if it's not a "forget" thing, I just leave it on for a while... bummer if this happens!
OLED/AMOLED screens are not sufficiently advanced yet - all Samsung smartphones including latest S8 suffer from severe burn in. OLED/AMOLED screens also deteriorate with time. Would you spend $1,000 on the new iPhone if the screen gets worse with time and suffers from burn in / image retention? I really hope Apple sticks to LED or micro-LED.
OLED just like Plasma is prone to burn-in. However the issue gets completely overblown. I owned a Panasonic Plasma for many years and never got burn-in with regular video game usage (video games have a lot of static stuff on the screen). Ive also owned OLED panel Phones since the Note 4 and not once have I had any burn-in. Trust me when I say Backlight bleed and screen uniformity issues on LCD panels are way more annoying and are present on almost all LCD panels.
AMOleds can get burn in easily especially if they have a constant static image of say a home button on them. It's been a problem with every AMOled phone. Samsung reduced it on theirs by having a constantly moving home button on the S8.
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Apple isn't going to have a home button which is the single biggest burn in location. Apple will stick to LCDs this year due to supply restraints, but after 2018 they will fully switch to AMOled.
Yes AMOLED is prone to Burn-in, however it does not happen easily, I've been using AMOLED phones for long enough with zero burn in to make this statement. I even have my S8 set to a 10 min screen timeout as I like to keep my screen on in certain situations. No burn-in whatsoever, just stunning picture PQ. If Burn-In happened "so easily" I would surely have experienced it by now. The whole situation is blown WAY out of proportion. Meanwhile every LCD screen I've ever owned has horrible backlight bleed issues and black uniformity issues, even on local dimming models. Until MicroLED is out OLED gives the best overall PQ.
Plenty of complaints about every single Amoled phones getting burn ins with every single model having issues including the s8. Just because your lucky doesn't mean it isn't a problem. It does happen enough and it is afetjre that can't happen on a LCD screen. I've never had any issues with a LCD screen so they must have zero issues.
Except thats a lie, or you are blind.
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Do you believe everything you read on the internet? Most people are saying the pictures of the S8 burn-in are actually fake.
At the end of the day I really don't care, I use OLED screens and don't suffer from the issue that people seems to think is common. I also know plenty of people with Samsung phones and none of them have experienced Burn-in either. That's enough to tell me the situation is overblown. If you want to freak out and not use an OLED screen because you read some rubbish on the internet thats your loss.
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I have lots of friends who have LCzd screens and none of them have issues. Maybe you are overblowing he situation. Supposedly ads sit fixed the burnin issues by moving the home buttons pixels. Guess what every single let AMOled phone has had those issues even Samsung admitted as much to a Apple back in 2016 when Apple tried to purchase them originally. Wonder why Apple doesn't have a home button on the iPhone 8. Your logic is bad. Just because you haven't had any issues doesn't mean there aren't any. And burn in issues are much, much, much more serious then light bleeding.Except thats a lie, or you are blind.
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Do you believe everything you read on the internet? Most people are saying the pictures of the S8 burn-in are actually fake.
At the end of the day I really don't care, I use OLED screens and don't suffer from the issue that people seems to think is common. I also know plenty of people with Samsung phones and none of them have experienced Burn-in either. That's enough to tell me the situation is overblown. If you want to freak out and not use an OLED screen because you read some rubbish on the internet thats your loss.
LCD screens all have uniformity issues and backlight bleed to some degree. This is a fact. So what you are saying is just a lie. Im not overblowing anything, read any review for a LCD panel and you will see they all suffer from uniformity and backlight bleed issues.
Like I already said, yes, OLED panels are prone to burn-in, I never said otherwise its the nature of the tech. However it is not as common as you believe. If you are aware of how Burn-In works its easily avoidable just like it was avoidable on Plasma panels. Just because you read a few posts on the internet saying OMGZ OLED burn-in don't touch an OLED screen it will get burn-in blah blah blah does not mean it happens often. The chance of you getting burn-in is probably the same percentage as having a major issue with an LCD panel, that is pretty low. Anyway I'm done, I'm not here to sell damn OLED panels. The fact Apple is moving to the tech should be enough to tell you where OLED is at, let alone the Displaymate review on the Note 8.
Take those few posts and multiply it by 3-500+. It's common enough for Apple not to buy them when the only AMOled manufacturer openly admits it's a problem. The longer you own a single AMOled device the greater the risk of burn in plus the certainty of color fading happening. AMOled screens are nice with their oversaturated colors, but they have much more long term issues then any LCD panel.
Once again you show how little you know, the Note 8 has the most colour accurate display on the market. Seriously go and do some research.
Funny you are. Nice colors but not accurate. At least not on my s8. Same screen dippy and the same screen that Apple will use. Apples LCDs are cosmidred to be the best LCDs on the market. At least those LCzds won't downgrade over time.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_gal...en_displaymate_has_ever_tested-news-26969.php
http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note8_ShootOut_100.htm
Even most Apple fans know and can concede that the S8 panel is better then the iP7. You are just plain uneducated, read that review and learn something
"The Galaxy Note8 is the most innovative and high performance Smartphone display that we have ever lab tested. So the Galaxy Note8 becomes the Best Performing Smartphone Display, earning DisplayMate’s highest ever A+ grade."
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Whatever. The Note still has Touchpizz the UI for people who like slow expensive things that aren't worth paying an exrtra $100 for. Of course the screen won't be that good in a couple of years when the colors,fade away. And to boot Apple will,have the same screen made by 5he same manufacturer along with every single other Android manufacturer who buys an AMOled screen. Only 1 manufacturer right now until Sharp and LG start making them next year. Hopefully they won't have the same manufacturing issues as their LCD screens. As long as Apple doesn't buy their chips from Samshits useLess chip factory I will be happy.
Once again, Wrong. Yes, Samsung supply panels to other manufacturers. However they are not the exact same panel as Samsung use in their flagship models. Samsung keep the best panels for themselves. Seriously turn the fanboy knob down a few notches and relax. You like the iPhone, that's great enjoy it.
So they want to ruin the Android market and reputation by selling shoddy panels. That will work. It explains why the Snapdragon processors that they make for Qualcomm are plagued with the same battery downgradation that the chips that Samsung made for Apple had. How come LG sells Apple better LCD screens then even LG uses. You don't know which panels that Apple bought from Samsung, keep in mind Apple will gladly switch to a different manufacturer once they can produce the same panels that Samsung uses. Again when you make more phones then anybody else,does you can get better everything else since you can afford to buy it. Samsung might be more willing to help a Apple since Apple sells more actual phones especially high end phones then anybody else. Apple also makes 75% of the profit in the smartphone market. Again they can afford the high end stuff. Samsung has to sell or make stuff for others in order for them to make money. Nothing wrong with that either. Don't know how LG or HTC are sticking around. HTC in particular has been bleeding but money for years. Huawei is catching up to Samsung quickly. They make a good product and sell it for a lot less then Samsung.
This may be the difference in the way Apple does something and the way other companies rush a component, just to say they did it. They have had a test OLED running for possibly a year now, I'm sure they would have noticed the burn in issue and hopefully solved.
Time will tell if the panel in the iP8 is at the same standard as the Note 8. Personally I think Apple will have certain kpi's that they will want to have reached with the panels that are supplied to them. It will be a decent panel no doubt.
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You can't really solve the Burn-In issue. Apple don't have magical powers. However Burn-In is way overblown so just enjoy the device.
Apple solved it by removing the single biggest cause of it, the static home button. Apple will hopefully want to have uniform screens with every AMOled manufacturer something that hasn't quite been true with LCD manufacturers. We shall see. Burn in issues should have been a non-issue since tech though they got away from that in the 80's. Newer tech shouldn't have the same exact problems that the original tech had especially when in between tech removed that problem. Regardless, it was a big enough of a problem for Samsung to openly admit it.
Never looked into OLEDS till today when I was curious as to what the difference was between OLED and LCD.
Found numerous articles about screen burn and lots of images of phones, that aren't that old, with screen burn.
For those that are young and never used a CRT monitor, screen burn is when an image that is displayed a lot on a phone burns permanently into the screen
I'm a bit worried...Samsung is one of the phones with this issue...aren't they providing the new oled screens to Apple?
I found other posts about this afterwards...sorry bout that. Cant seem to find where to delete my post.
Found numerous articles about screen burn and lots of images of phones, that aren't that old, with screen burn.
For those that are young and never used a CRT monitor, screen burn is when an image that is displayed a lot on a phone burns permanently into the screen
I'm a bit worried...Samsung is one of the phones with this issue...aren't they providing the new oled screens to Apple?
I found other posts about this afterwards...sorry bout that. Cant seem to find where to delete my post.
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It could happen and currently happens with Galaxy phone but theres an easy fix. There's apps that will make the pixel of the screen invert and "unfreeze" the burn and fix it.
I’ll put money on it: burn-in isn’t a maybe or an if, its a when
Those static UI elements are gonna be singed in there real nice.
If you’re worried about it I’d probably steer clear of any OLED screens for the next handful of years from any OEM
Those static UI elements are gonna be singed in there real nice.
If you’re worried about it I’d probably steer clear of any OLED screens for the next handful of years from any OEM