My first F1 one couldn't tell at the time, because I was too annoyed by the earpiece buzzing while on the phone that I never bothered to investigate. It was like a bee.
I had two DN's with this interlacing after that. On one of them, the front glass in top right was chipping whenever I removed my soft TPU case so I exchanged it...
Got an F2 without it, but phone kept randomly crashing ONLY selectively but always after taking pictures. I was really hoping it was a software issue but nobody else seems to be able to reproduce it quite like mine did. After about two months, I decided to take the gamble again recently (very reluctantly, mind you).
Replacement I just got in the mail is DN, more beautiful than my F2 screen (clear white instead of pink-ish), and no interlacing once again. At this point, short of this thing not working functionality wise (as I questioned with my F2-camera crash) or spontaneously combusting, I think I'm going to hold onto my current one until the iPhone 6 or hopefully by then serious competition will make Apple work overtime to please their customers.
It seems it's largely luck of the draw to be honest.
My dad's DN I think exhibits the interlacing but only every so slightly.
Some exhibit it far worse than others. My brother's F2 I notice right away. He doesn't seem to notice or care though.
Don't think my mom's F1 does it either but can't remember.
Welcome to screen lottery!
FWIW, I
think DN in general are better and more consistently built but there are exceptions I'm sure.
All the DN's I've had the camera seems to show the purple flare, but only slightly and only when the light source is literally at the perfect edged angle. On my previous F2, purple flare was easily noticeable in more circumstances and way more obvious in shots. Maybe it's the DN's that have a more pronounced ring around the camera hole to cut down on this. Apple would never hone up to this being an issue, interlacing, or anything else because everyone and their mom would exchange their phone even if it didn't interlace/show intense purple flare and AAPL would tank.
Like if they honed up to how terrible the QC was on iPad3. Never... My current iPad3 is a bit on the warm/pink side but at least its uniform unlike so many other iPad3's I've seen that have pink bleed coming intensely from one corner or half the screen split into green and pink in an obvious way. Color Profiles jailbreak tweak ironed it right out
I don't remember my 4S with a similar camera sensor doing it nearly as bad as some 5's I've seen.
Apple should hire me for QC inspection
iPhones would never leave the factory, then.
I also find scuffgate to be hilarious. A nick here or there I could care less about as long as the whole chamfered edge doesn't look like a grinded-on halfpipe. Screen quality is much more important imo.