Could you elaborate on this please? I'm actually a little disappointed with the vertical off-angle viewing of my new iPad - something I expected would be greatly improved over the 1st generation iPad but was not.
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There is DEFINITELY a screen issue with the new iPad
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Nothing wrong with being picky.. it's your hard earn money and your with in the return/customer satisfaction guaranteed no questioned asked.. I'm returning my new iPad in 3 days 
and get it again later on been having bad luck with this yellow bug..going back to iPad 2 for a bit..retina display spoils me hard to let it go..
and get it again later on been having bad luck with this yellow bug..going back to iPad 2 for a bit..retina display spoils me hard to let it go..Seriously... Take a look at the photo Aksta posted above. You'd have to be BLIND not to notice this and see it as a problem.
You want to talk about wasting time? What about the poor consumer that parts with his/her hard earned cash and ends up with one of these turd units and then has to go back to the retailer over and over again to get a product that should never have gotten past quality control in the first place? Is that person's time not worth anything?
You want to talk about wasting time? What about the poor consumer that parts with his/her hard earned cash and ends up with one of these turd units and then has to go back to the retailer over and over again to get a product that should never have gotten past quality control in the first place? Is that person's time not worth anything?
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Fanboys came up with a diagnosis
The tread starter says in post 4: "You guys got good ones first time around." I am not that certain that he is right. Perhaps they just are not able or willing to see weak aspects with an Apple product. That makes sense, on the basis of the many rather strange posts in this forum.
And a new "low down" has been reached: The fanboys now give persons who are not satisfied with the screens a psychiatrical diagnosis - OCD. This is very rude and disrespectful, and in fact ridiculus.
My clear impression is that most of those who are unsatisfied with the screen seem to have good and reasonable arguments for their critical viewpoints. And perhaps a so huge battery (or other parts of the interior of the iPad) emits so much heat that it distorts or disturbs the quality of the screen - perhaps also with a yellow tint? Who knows?
Apple MAY have chosen a configuration that is NOT VERY GOOD, plainly speaking. But, in this and similar forums, even mentioning this as a possibility seem to provoke denial and also such disrespectful behavior as described above. This says it all - about the posters who do such things.
The tread starter says in post 4: "You guys got good ones first time around." I am not that certain that he is right. Perhaps they just are not able or willing to see weak aspects with an Apple product. That makes sense, on the basis of the many rather strange posts in this forum.
And a new "low down" has been reached: The fanboys now give persons who are not satisfied with the screens a psychiatrical diagnosis - OCD. This is very rude and disrespectful, and in fact ridiculus.
My clear impression is that most of those who are unsatisfied with the screen seem to have good and reasonable arguments for their critical viewpoints. And perhaps a so huge battery (or other parts of the interior of the iPad) emits so much heat that it distorts or disturbs the quality of the screen - perhaps also with a yellow tint? Who knows?
Apple MAY have chosen a configuration that is NOT VERY GOOD, plainly speaking. But, in this and similar forums, even mentioning this as a possibility seem to provoke denial and also such disrespectful behavior as described above. This says it all - about the posters who do such things.
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I second this. The viewing angles are horrible on the new iPad especially with the color shift on white backgounds. I'm exchanging tomorrow and will ask for a refund if they cannot produce an iPad with reasonable screen quality. It gives me a headache looking at my rainbow colored screen.
The first three iPads I had had varying degrees of blue and pink tints to any white background. So if you viewed straight on, you'd get this. If you angled the device say to improve comfort, the distribution of the tints moved - the blue would change to pink and the pink blue etc.
The iPad I now have has no variance when viewed straight on - all white, and this does not change with angle.
This is what makes me believe that there are a batch of defective screens out there. Those who have good screens - and I know they exist because I have one, and because the Apple Store in Glasgow has many good ones on display are simply fortunate.
This reminds me of the back light bleeding on the iPad 2. The first batch had a high incidence of screens back light bleeding. After a while Apple addressed this and the bleeding was a not an issue anymore. I'm glad you found a screen that is solid white this makes me feel better about going to exchange mine tomorrow and the hope that I may get a good screen.
While I don't have to green/magenta tint shown by the earlier picture in this thread, I definitely have horrible viewing angles/large amounts of color shifting when viewing off-axis.
Screen picture - taken with iPhone 4S
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I'm not willing to jump to the conclusion that my iPad is defective without looking at some other 3rd generation iPads first. I had just read about the superior off-angle viewing of the iPad 2 and how that was true of the iPad 3 as well, but I don't find that to be the case. It's quite possible all 3rd generation iPads look like mine, and that people simply over-eggagerated the off-angle viewing quality.
I've noticed the same thing. The iPhone 4 has a much wider viewing angle. iPad 3 is better than iPad 2, but not as good as iPhone 4.
Also, I do see some discoloration when viewing off angle, but it really doesn't bother me.
Both of the ones that I purchased and returned had screens like that. Lighter on one side, darker on the other. When you turn the iPad, it reverses. I'm back to my iPad 2 for now.
This is probably as bad as it gets... Nevertheless it proves that defective screens are on the shelves and in people's homes and it is NOT OCD.
The witch hunts need to end. If you have a defective screen you are not OCD, or crazy, or unreasonable. You are a human being that is adamant on getting what is promised if you fork over $500 of your hard earned cash.
I will scold Apple for their quality control, their customer service, otoh is superb. So just keep trying!
Well I can play this game too...
I've owned/own:
- iPhone 3G
- iPhone 4
- Mac Pro x2
- MacBook Pro x2
- MacBook x3
- Apple Cinema Display x2
- iMac x2
- Airport Extreme
- Airport Express x5
- Apple TV
- iPad (gen1)
- plus a lot of stuff in the 90's.
Never had to return anything until I bought the iPad 3 and had to return 3 of them for screen issues.
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I posted a poll about the viewing angles and 75% of respondents said their iPad 3rd gen lost brightness when viewed at an angle. I never noticed this with the iPad 2. In fact my new iPad's viewing angles are almost as bad as my 13 inch MacBook air. Not what I expect from a IPS screen.
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Man you people that keep returning your iPads really have no lives. 4, 5, 6 or even 7 times you look for something that isn’t there.
So for every device that gets released we have people like this. You guys make it seems like a widespread problem. Its not, the only problem is the one in your head. The Genius bar must hate people like you, maybe even more than the scalpers
Oh no, if I turn the brightness up tyo 100%, and turn off the light and restart the iPad to show only the startup screen then I can see Blacklight bleeding. How stupid do you people sound?
Newsflash, most LCD’s have blacklight bleeding. Check it out on your TV.
I have owned 3G, 3GS, Iphone 4, iPad, iPad2 and the new iPad, a Macbook Pro, Airport Express, Apple TV and Apple TV3, and never had the amount of time wasting as some of you do with your products.
Do you do the samething when buying any other product, or are you just this anal about Apple products?
why do you guys care so much? glad you have perfect ipads, but others don't.
and don't give me the "added cost" excuse. ipad has not risen in price in three years, and have you seen the apple stock price recently?
who's really wasting their time; people trying to get a decent, highly priced product, or people who troll and criticize them? hmmmm......
Man you people that keep returning your iPads really have no lives. 4, 5, 6 or even 7 times you look for something that isn’t there.
So for every device that gets released we have people like this. You guys make it seems like a widespread problem. Its not, the only problem is the one in your head. The Genius bar must hate people like you, maybe even more than the scalpers
Oh no, if I turn the brightness up tyo 100%, and turn off the light and restart the iPad to show only the startup screen then I can see Blacklight bleeding. How stupid do you people sound?
Newsflash, most LCD’s have blacklight bleeding. Check it out on your TV.
I have owned 3G, 3GS, Iphone 4, iPad, iPad2 and the new iPad, a Macbook Pro, Airport Express, Apple TV and Apple TV3, and never had the amount of time wasting as some of you do with your products.
Do you do the samething when buying any other product, or are you just this anal about Apple products?
Me and you think to much a like. Love this post
why do you guys care so much? glad you have perfect ipads, but others don't.
and don't give me the "added cost" excuse. ipad has not risen in price in three years, and have you seen the apple stock price recently?
who's really wasting their time; people trying to get a decent, highly priced product, or people who troll and criticize them? hmmmm......
I'm taking mine back but it's heartening to hear there are some good screens out there. I don't have the patience to sift through a myriad of replacements, so I might wait a while if the first replacement doesn't cut the mustard.
What is annoying is not hearing any statement from Apple or even on any of the mac podcasts. There are thousands of posts about this. I suspect many people have not noticed it ...yet. Some may not care or get snarky about OCD, but then they don't really get Apple which is founded on "OCD" or you could call it attention to detail, having high standards, and making something beautiful.
What is annoying is not hearing any statement from Apple or even on any of the mac podcasts. There are thousands of posts about this. I suspect many people have not noticed it ...yet. Some may not care or get snarky about OCD, but then they don't really get Apple which is founded on "OCD" or you could call it attention to detail, having high standards, and making something beautiful.
I'm guess I'm lucky because my screen is perfect. My buddy at the store said this hasn't even been mentioned by any customers.....