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I am willing to bet that if you gave someone a One S or S3 Mini on its own and asked them what the screen is like, they'd tell you its fine. The only way you can tell a difference in real world usage is by comparing them directly against each other and looking at very close detail in a darkened room.
The S3 has a pentile matrix AMOLED yet it's the most popular Android phone and the main iPhone competitor. Honestly, no one gives a crap about this stuff aside from nitpicky geeks. Hell I'm a nitpicky geek and even I don't give a crap.
QFT ..... All of the high end phones from the past couple of years have great quality screens. Just cause some are better quality than others(and usually not by much), doesn't make the lesser display garbage.
No one gives a crap because the regular joes but stuff as it is marketed to them.
It is the informed buyer that gives a thought to alternatives and those are rare.
If the phone works fine for your needs the exact type of display technology doesn't matter.
I wonder if iPhone works fine for 99% of the population's needs out there, why are people touting the new 1080 displays on other phones?
My mistake, you're both absolutely correct. When looking at the specs on GSMarena I didn't look at the network bands and only glanced at the Data speeds, where they only listed HSPA+.
My apologies for the misinformation.
If your needs include watching movies and playing HD games 1080p is useful. Otherwise it's unnecessary.
I disagree, with higher resolutions text is sharper, which means less eye strain and allows you to read even smaller text. With my One I can read small text when zoomed all the way out in the web browser, while on lower resolution screens they would just be a blur.
Not that I know of, but I don't keep up with gaming.
The difference between 720p and 1080p for text is minimal.
Agreed. I did a side by side with the n4 and One. what was blurry zoomed out was blurry on both phones. The screen is overall better, and that is why it looks better. It has nothing to do with 1080P on a screen of that size. The screen on the iphone 5 is better than the n4 and the n4 is a higher resolution.
I wouldn't consider any of the phones being discussed here to be high-end. I think if you put the S3 Mini or One S up against any of the high end phones from the past year (720p or similar, i.e. iPhone) the difference would be noticeable. Thus, why I'd prefer the display on the First.
You say it doesn't matter, I say it does--guess we'll agree to disagree on this one.
And i find that my needs are reading ebooks and websites where the pentile AMOLEDs, even the S3's 720p one, do "okay" but worse than a nexus 4, HTC One X, LG Optimus G, and iPhone 5. My eyes instantly spot the difference and after that there is this discomfort with display that i cannot get rid of.
So yeah, back to square one.