Some of the first LG OLEDs had a burn in problem. You could see it on the display model at Best Buy. From what I understand, the current generation of OLED panels do not have that problem.
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iPhones with OLED and possible screen burn [MERGED]
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Only burn in I’ve seen are Samsung units running the retail demo, with the screen on for hours or days or weeks at a time, and something causing the retail demo to disengage and the Samsung logo screen displayed.
If you’ve got your phone constantly plugged in and on a static image for hours on a daily basis, yes, you may have an issue after a few months.
If you’ve got your phone constantly plugged in and on a static image for hours on a daily basis, yes, you may have an issue after a few months.
Thing is there aren’t reports of mass infestations of Note 8 or S8 OLEDs with burn in so Apple is safe.
This excuse really has run dry at this point. Both Apple and Samsung aren’t incompetent fools to use this screen on their own phones if they had a drawback worse than LCD.
I have used an S6, Tab S3 for years and I never developed burn anywhere on the status bar. This sounds to me like dead pixels and backlight bleed on lcd. You may get it or maybe you won’t.
But again no tech is perfect and OLED is not an exception
So the first one in line at a AppleStore is going to put on MR.com on a iPhone on Display, and every MR reader behind him in the line is going to see if it's already burned in. We would have a 8 hour test in the first day 
Doesn’t matter what the ratio is. Back to the point for the alleged price oled has to be deficiency free, which it’s not. It’s going to be up to the individual looking at a less than perfect screen to decide.
Tbh, the last amoled phone that I had that suffered burn in was the Galaxy Nexus....a phone that launched almost 6yrs (which is like 15yrs in tech years) Oled has come a long way since then. I've had my S8+ since April and I've had 0 burn in. That's just my experience tho. I think your iPhone should be fine unless you have the screen on the same page, on 100% brightness, for days at a time
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
Does burn-in on OLED take as much time as on a CRT? Because I don't remember ever getting burn-in on a CRT from anything static like the Windows Start menu. Though I never had a CRT mobile!
So you think Apple’s going to squander it’s reputation on a phone more expensive than an LCD and according to you has more defects than it?
FYI the OLED screen costs twice that of an LCD.
Reputation is not the issue, returns are. Being “twice” the price doesn’t mean twice as good or twice as “reliable “.
People have been returning LCD iPhones for years and it didn't matter as the iPhone costed as much as the competition with a different set of problems. Now the iPhone is priced in a completely different league and any issue will damage Apple's reputation as it would result in the lower price iPhones being better than the flagship.
Thumb rule suggests that the more expensive product from any particular company is better tHan the cheaper one from the same company.
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This is different due to the price.
Your average joe on the street doesn't know about individual price components. Burn in and etc will happen regardless of "rule of thumb". Do burn in on oled is better than yellow screen on LCD because it's more expensive?
I think they could use both FaceID and TouchID together in future phones, will be 2 factor authentication for payments etc.
Not at all, TouchID is still very relevant, 2 new phones tomorrow will incorporate it and they will get supported by Apple for 4 years.
It’s been well documented on MR that Apple are still filing patents for touch and fingerprint sensing. so they haven’t finished with it for the foreseeable.
The tech isn’t there for under the screen scanning yet or it would be in the X, however, next year the tech should be there and I’m sure as anything Samsung will be eager to get this implemented as fast as possible. TouchID and FaceID would work in harmony and we would see part of that revolutionary 2FA with the iPhone X.
If they don't include Touch ID in the X, but then incorporate it in next years OLED phone, yeah it totally would be.
And the fact that the 2 iPhone 8 models have it is irrelevant. We are speaking about the iPhone X.
LG prevents image burn in on TVs by moving the image around a bit. they got spare pixels on all sides so they can move it. obviously this happens very slowly and you can't see it happening, because the whole image is just jumping by 1 pixel at a time.
samsung does the same for the always on display. but not for normal use (AFAIK), because while you are using the phone the image is changing all the time anyway..
samsung does the same for the always on display. but not for normal use (AFAIK), because while you are using the phone the image is changing all the time anyway..
The X is a glimpse into the future iphone. Would completely wireless charging (let’s say Apple released this next year) in next years iphone make the X this year redundant or having some other tech that the X doesn’t have this year make it already redundant?
The X isn’t an extra line of the iPhone, it will be the new line starting next year, what happens to TouchID then? Apps have to incorporate it still, firmware will have to incorporate it still, imho it’s going nowhere, it’s just the tech can’t get it under an AMOLED screen just yet.