Other This years screen lottery (17, 17 pro, 17 pro max and air)

[kulan]

Definitely seeing the brightness gradient, most Samsung screens have this issue. Are you planning on playing the lottery again for a new screen?

I haven't been playing the panel lottery, I returned the PM because it seemed like a legit hardware issue going on with the speakers. However that PM display really started to bother me because I could swear the right side was dimmer or warmer than the left whenever I read text on it.

I really don't think I'm going to be happy if I go back for a better panel. I just can't believe this is what people call the "better" of the two manufacturers.

 

[kirk.vino]

This is true. I actually have all c3 LG in the living room and a C1 in the master bedroom. Best oled tv’s I’ve own before. Weird

You guys are so funny, comparing the TV OLEDs to the smartphones’ OLEDs. Those are not even the same type of OLED technologies in these smartphone screens. It’s not apples to apples. I also have an LG C2 in my living room, so what lol

 

[Mick_ag]

I just can't believe this is what people call the "better" of the two manufacturers.

And yet, here we are.

 

[kulan]

And yet, here we are.

I guess it's less noticeable when using the phone in real life. Don't really know if this uneven brightness stuff can just sort itself out as I use the phone...

 

[Pufster]

Can we all just agree that both samsung and lg screens can have good and bad examples?
I tried 2 lg gvc, both green shift but one more than the other. The bad one was really annoying, the other was at a level it was acceptable as no screen is perfect.
Same with samsung. One has more pink tint than the other.
What LG excels at then is uniformity and vibrance.

From my personal tests trying numerous PM models and checking in stores, I have a preference for no color shifts at angles so the chance to get that was higher with samsung as the lg’s had the green shift in majority of cases.

 

[nickelro]

I guess it's less noticeable when using the phone in real life. Don't really know if this uneven brightness stuff can just sort itself out as I use the phone...

You need to "give it some time for the glue to dry out", remember?

 

[khanmein]

Compared my iPhone 17PM(Panel G9P) with spouse's iPhone 16PM(Panel GH3). Both phones are new.

I have noted following:

1. One distinct observation is, 17 PM darker than 16PM at minimum brightness and is also brighter than 16 PM at maximum brightness. So, apparently the range of brightness is more in 17PM.
2. Both panels are uniform with no color shift.
3. 17PM has slightly warmer temp(yellow) where as 16PM has a little bit more of reddish component.
4. Greys are darker is 16PM and lighter in 17PM.

Photos taken with Pixel 9 with true tone off. 16 PM on the left.

17 PM peak brightness <1.6k nits (HBM) vs 16 PM peak brightness <2k nits (HBM) Literally, many people didn’t notice the peak brightness for HDR content.

17 PM peak brightness <3k nits (outdoor) vs 16 PM peak brightness <2k nits (outdoor)

SDR peak brightness contents <1k nits for both phones.

Both phones supported minimum brightness 1 nits.

 

[relaxman]

Compared my iPhone 17PM(Panel G9P) with spouse's iPhone 16PM(Panel GH3). Both phones are new.

I have noted following:

1. One distinct observation is, 17 PM darker than 16PM at minimum brightness and is also brighter than 16 PM at maximum brightness. So, apparently the range of brightness is more in 17PM.
2. Both panels are uniform with no color shift.
3. 17PM has slightly warmer temp(yellow) where as 16PM has a little bit more of reddish component.
4. Greys are darker is 16PM and lighter in 17PM.

Photos taken with Pixel 9 with true tone off. 16 PM on the left.

Apple has configured the 17 series screens more yellow. This is the same for both Samsung or LG, and this will also vary for every panel a bit.

 

[bsmr]

Concerning the G9N displays I think, that every display has some kind of red/pink hue in the lower area. But this is only visible when looking at it off angle, or am I wrong?

When looking straight you 'mostly' cannot see it.

 

[qwertylol111]

Apple has configured the 17 series screens more yellow. This is the same for both Samsung or LG, and this will also vary for every panel a bit.

How do you know that? Because it makes sense actually.

I had two 16 PM, one G9N and one GH3 and I hated the GH3, because I prefer the warmer tones of the G9N. The GH3 colors were very cold and white and I really didn’t like it.

But the GH3 on my 17 PM looks almost identical to the G9N on my 16 PM with the warmer tones, which I like a lot.

 

[KarimLeVallois]

G9Q don't appear to have the same pink hue.

 

[SumYoungGai]

Concerning the G9N displays I think, that every display has some kind of red/pink hue in the lower area. But this is only visible when looking at it off angle, or am I wrong?

When looking straight you 'mostly' cannot see it.

This is generally true for both G9N and G9P

 

[Frankfurt]

G9N here. I don’t see any distortions whatsoever. Now, they may exist, but are not noticeable for me.

 

[Bako-MacAddict]

You guys are so funny, comparing the TV OLEDs to the smartphones’ OLEDs. Those are not even the same type of OLED technologies in these smartphone screens. It’s not apples to apples. I also have an LG C2 in my living room, so what lol

Someone brought it up is why I commented, but yeah, I get your point.

 

[Bako-MacAddict]

You need to "give it some time for the glue to dry out", remember?

I do remember that!

 

[Danorak81]

I'm on a Pro Max and mine is the LG GVC. Whole thread is 30 pages, TL;DR, but I don't see any issues with tints, or warm spots, or anything like that.

 

[Jonnykiv]

I have a base 17 256GB in Mist Blue with a G9P panel and no off-axis tint

 

[kirk.vino]

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[kirk.vino]

Someone brought it up is why I commented, but yeah, I get your point.

In all fairness, the very first generations of these mobile panels showed a big difference between the Samsung and the LG panels - the latter were really bad on the iPhone X. I went through the whole thing myself with at least 4 replacements, none which were even remotely passable. They all had very bright pink tint while flat on the table, meaning even a slight angle would reveal it. However, I lucked out and got a Samsung panel a month later, which was a big improvement. But that was literally 8 years ago, so both vendors are in a different place now in terms of their quality.

 

[Rade0]

Seconding that 26.1 hasn’t changed anything.

17 pro max, UK, GH3 panel, green on the bottom when tilted. Overall “brown” whites, more noticeable on the bottom half. Slight hand movements cause the hue to change noticeably. Straight on viewing the display appears off-white more so than when slightly angled so whenever I’m trying to read the news I’m actually playing a game of finding the least off-putting angle at which to hold my phone.

Using accessibility settings to add a blue tint (slider 3/4 to the right) improves things but then everything’s just a bit blue instead.

Returning as I can’t enjoy the device spending the whole time watching menus and web page content change from brown-white to browner-white as I scroll.

So glad I found this thread after googling “brown iPhone 17 screen” lol.

Was super excited for a 17 pro max coming from an 11 but putting the two side by side the 11 is so much brighter, vibrant, and whites are white!

 

[tomtad]

Was a shocker of a screen on an regular 17 in the Apple store, it even looked green just seeing it on the table and had horrible colour shift to really green when off angle. The others next to it were all fine however.

The Airs generally seemed to have worse colour shift, again to green, when off axis. But nothing as bad as that one regular 17.

 

[Mick_ag]

In all fairness, the very first generations of these mobile panels showed a big difference between the Samsung and the LG panels - the latter were really bad on the iPhone X. I went through the whole thing myself with at least 4 replacements, none which were even remotely passable. They all had very bright pink tint while flat on the table, meaning even a slight angle would reveal it. However, I lucked out and got a Samsung panel a month later, which was a big improvement. But that was literally 8 years ago, so both vendors are in a different place now in terms of their quality.

Not true. Do you have some hidden agenda defending Samsung panels, as if you could modify reality at will? Samsung was the only supplier of panels for the iPhone X; LG only started producing panels for the XS. So that horror with the pink-tinted screens (I had one too) must be attributed to Samsung, just like what’s happening now with the iPhone 17 and, once again, the pink tint. Gosh.

 

[holzloeffel]

GVC here and my screen looks great

 

[kulan]

Honestly, I like the G9Q Samsung display on my Air better than the LG GVC on my Pro Max. It’s not perfect but it’s still better in terms of quality. Not going to say all Samsung screens are better but the issues with this one are much less noticeable.

 

[kirk.vino]

Not true. Do you have some hidden agenda defending Samsung panels, as if you could modify reality at will? Samsung was the only supplier of panels for the iPhone X; LG only started producing panels for the XS. So that horror with the pink-tinted screens (I had one too) must be attributed to Samsung, just like what’s happening now with the iPhone 17 and, once again, the pink tint. Gosh.

Ok, I stand corrected then. I don’t have any agendas lol
But then again, the stuff that you’ve mentioned does not apply to every panel and they all vary. I have a 17PM (G9P) and a 17 Pro (G9N) and both don’t have the pink-tinted screens.
Are they 100% even? No, but no iPhone panel is. You can show me any of them and I’ll find the slight differences between the top and the bottom or the left and the right of any screen.