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Japan Display Planning Mass Production of OLED Displays for iPhones in Early 2018
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On paper. I hate to inform you that eyeballs judge screen quality, not numbers. And looking at both, with my eyeballs, Samsung's is garbage.
Apple Watch is a good preview of how Apple will be using OLED on iPhone. Tap to awake (bye bye sleep awake button) and white-on-black UI (at least as an option). I am also guessing Apple will finally bring fingerprint sensors on a screen, which I strongly suspect will be a feature on Apple Watch 2.
We don't even know what the iPhone 7 will have. Extremely too early to predict for the 7S, but now talking about the 8? Maybe the Snapdragon 830/835/840 + the GS8, HTC One M11, LG G6 could give us an idea on what to expect for the iPhone 8? Who knows, Apple can switch to OLED for the 7 easily. It's just about resource allocation.
We are going to have start including these types of comments in the list as well.
This is real simple, not everyone wants to be treated like a kid. Some of us actually have the intelligence to use a device beyond the elementary level. With that being said, if an OEM doesn't want to give me the most expensive bleeding edge tech, then don't charge me like you are. Don't give me a 720P/1080P old tech LCD screen at the price of a 2K/4K AMOLED display. Get it?
How dare somebody prefer something you don't?!
AMOLED is not true OLED. Go to a store to see the LG OLED screens. Best TVs in the Universe.
Yes, higher resolution is better for VR. But even the 2.5k is not great for VR. And, to be honest, our phone screens shouldn't be sucking down power for the 2-8% of users that are likely to give two craps about VR.
There's a difference between being treated like a kid and making technology user friendly and accessible that even a little kid knows how to use it. Making products easy to use doesn't undermine intelligence, it simply removes the need for the user to waste time on figuring out how to use the product as a tool in their life. Having the ability to excessively figure out how a product works is not by any means a display of intelligence, but rather a result of poor product design that failed to make the product instantly intuitive.
After all, the majority consumer population have proven that they want user friendly products rather than bleeding edge tech that just came out of the R&D lab. If people wanted otherwise, Apple would have ceased to exist decades ago.
Saying product A is better than product B because product A has greater integer values will always fail to consider the more important things you don't see on the spec sheet. Such as: software/hardware optimization, app ecosystem, security, software support longevity, you know...all the stuff Android phones are inferior at.
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It's the opposite, actually. LG screens use organic light emitting diodes as a backlight only (RGB pixels combined produce white light) while the colours are created by RGB colour filter (a technology called White-OLED). Samsung OLED screens use native RGB OLED pixels. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but saying that LG OLED is somehow more "true" is inaccurate.
Well, you can simply buy something other than an iPhone. I will probably stick with my 6s+ until an iPhone is released with OLED or another compelling feature, and so far the 7 isn't looking all that appealing.
It cracks me up how people say the display is just fine and no need to make it a higher resolution or screen type. The screen is fine. But they need to improve on it. There is always room for improvement. A 720p screen on a premium phone like the iPhone 6s in 2015 is disgraceful.
Some of you claim to be loyal to Apple but you never want them to progress or change as a company.
Some of you claim to be loyal to Apple but you never want them to progress or change as a company.
Can anyone think of a single benefit to LCD technology over OLED?
Oled benefits:
-More colour accurate
-Have better contrast levels
-Can show true blacks
-Can light up individual pixels without powering up a backlight
-Thinner
-Better response time
-Can be curved
LCD benefits:
...ummm
-Maybe uses less power showing whites (i'm not even sure this is true anymore is it?)
Oled benefits:
-More colour accurate
-Have better contrast levels
-Can show true blacks
-Can light up individual pixels without powering up a backlight
-Thinner
-Better response time
-Can be curved
LCD benefits:
...ummm
-Maybe uses less power showing whites (i'm not even sure this is true anymore is it?)
The problem with the s6 is that Samsung decided to cheap out on the battery and put a significantly smaller one than the s5 had. On top of that their version of Android isnt optimize for long battery life. They are relying on people using the fast charging.
Not necessarily a screen issue. Galaxy s5 had ridiculously good battery.
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Which can I add is epic! Why Apple don't add this (and Aptx) to iPhones is beyond me.
Doesn't the iPhone 6S take over 3hrs to charge with the supplied charger!?
I usually charge my iphone with an ipad charger because the supplied adapter takes too long to charge my 6s plus.
Absolutely. Same people saying the same meaningless stuff, thread after thread after thread. Nothing innovative, intelligent, or communicative to say, so they say the same thing they always say just for the sake of saying it. Are they unable to see just how silly they sound?