Retina HD vs. Super AMOLED: Now who wins?

[thejadedmonkey]

I have an AMOLED on my Lumia 820. It means that I can have the time always displayed on the screen, even when the screen is "off". It's quite bright, easily readable in the sunlight, and blacks consumer no power. So maybe the color reproduction isn't as great as an iPhone screen, but I don't exactly use my phone for anything that requires color accuracy, so who cares?

Personally, I'm amazed Apple's stuck to the LCD for so long.

 

[MRU]

Retina HD vs. Super AMOLED: Now who wins?

I have an AMOLED on my Lumia 820. It means that I can have the time always displayed on the screen, even when the screen is "off". It's quite bright, easily readable in the sunlight, and blacks consumer no power. So maybe the color reproduction isn't as great as an iPhone screen, but I don't exactly use my phone for anything that requires color accuracy, so who cares?



Personally, I'm amazed Apple's stuck to the LCD for so long.

Strangely the Lumia 930 which is also Amoled - but of a different variety can not do this.... I found it most annoying after getting used to it in the 1020 & 1520.

Also because you don't care for a certain feature of product A doesn't mean it's not of importance to others, more so than an always on clock.



Re : thread disintegration

There is so much petty ignorance, squabbling and downright selfishness on display in the thread over the last few number of pages, it's an embarrassing indictment of the narrow mindedness in here ....

 

[maflynn]

[MOD NOTE]
Enough with the bickering and arguing. A large swarth of posts was removed due to people's inability to have a discussion without arguing.

 

[Fernandez21]

I have an AMOLED on my Lumia 820. It means that I can have the time always displayed on the screen, even when the screen is "off". It's quite bright, easily readable in the sunlight, and blacks consumer no power. So maybe the color reproduction isn't as great as an iPhone screen, but I don't exactly use my phone for anything that requires color accuracy, so who cares?

Personally, I'm amazed Apple's stuck to the LCD for so long.

If you look at all the phones released with amoled, its obviouse the tech still isn't ready, the only good ones are found on Samsung devices, so either its too expensive to make a good one and Samsung is the only one who can do it because they make the panels, or there is something special in the Samsung made ones that their either keeping for themselves or are unable to make enough for their own phones plus enough to sell to other OEMS, so they just keep it for themselves at the moment.

Either way, I think in 2 years is when we'll see a shift from LCD to Amoled in most smart phones, apple included.

 

[I7guy]

If you look at all the phones released with amoled, its obviouse the tech still isn't ready, the only good ones are found on Samsung devices, so either its too expensive to make a good one and Samsung is the only one who can do it because they make the panels, or there is something special in the Samsung made ones that their either keeping for themselves or are unable to make enough for their own phones plus enough to sell to other OEMS, so they just keep it for themselves at the moment.

Either way, I think in 2 years is when we'll see a shift from LCD to Amoled in most smart phones, apple included.

Apple will go with amoled when they feel the technology is ready for prime time. They carefully pick and choose how they implement technology.

 

[mib1800]

Amoled is more comfortable to the eyes. It is less glaring due to fact dark area is really has no light emitting. The back lit of lcd seems to make screen more glow with light silhouette whereas amoled feels more like looking at real paper photo.