F my first world life… I’ve finally found a 17 pro max 512gb silver with a Samsung G9N screen after 4 tries. The thing is the phone has a very small blemish on the aluminium screen side like a small dent out of the box. Not sure what to do it’s so annoying. I can confirm however the Samsung screen has no colour shift and looks great and uniform. I think compared to the GH3 screen the only negative thing I can see is the colour shift when tilting the screen. Other than that the GH3 still is a great screen.
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Other This years screen lottery (17, 17 pro, 17 pro max and air)
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I don't know what panel I have (I presume LG), but this describes the screen on my iPhone Air and I'm very happy with it.
Didn't look in depth today at Apple Store but just walked by a few 17, 17 PM, and Air on display looping their demo mode and my goodness they're genuinely hideous off axis, and even straight on in some cases! The batting average seems pretty low this gen.
Yes agreed. Quite the year. Can’t imagine next year with the foldable with multiple screens. That one will be an absolute nightmare.
Hey , since we talked previously. I ended up keeping my unit . As I said , as far as screen goes it's perfect. Only issue is that it's not as anti reflective (reflections are more annoying than on my other 17 pro)
Anti reflective properties matter a lot to me, but I feel exhausted of exchanging it and not knowing what the next one might bring as a new issue .
Interesting since MacBook Pro refresh seems to be exclusively Samsung OLEDI have a iPad Pro M4 with these new tandem OLED tech (where apple stacked two OLEDs in such a way that light is emissioned by two OLED layers and energy consumption is down 20% compared to the regular OLEDs with the same brightness) that one is so uniform and has no tint off axis at all
looked up the serial number and it is a LG GH3... whish they would deploy these type of iPad Pro tandem OLED displays into the iPhone ... I guess then we would need all no more lottery at all.
When comparing it straight on with my green off axis monster LG GVC then it looks quite similar but when tilting into off axis it is totally different... the tandem OLED in the iPadPro stays bright and colors are not changing at all whereas my 17 PM looks like it is defect or someone spilled bright green poison over it.
EDIT: found a link to this korean tech article and told safari to translated it.
애플, 아이폰에도 탠덤 OLED 적용 타진 - 전자부품 전문 미디어 디일렉
애플이 아이폰에 탠덤 구조 유기발광다이오드(OLED)를 적용하는 방안을 검토 중인 것으로 파악됐다. 4일 업계에 따르면 LG디스플레이가 지난해 말 애플에 심플리파이드 탠덤 OLED를 제안했고, 이후 애플은 삼성디...www.thelec.kr
here a fragment of the article which shows that LG is ready, but apple still hesitates to use that tandem OLED tech for iphones
"...LG Display's proposal to Apple for simplified tandem seems to be the result of judging that they are ahead in tandem technology. LG Display has already proposed to Apple to apply tandem OLED to iPhone many years ago. At that time, Apple said that it had no plan to apply tandem OLED to iPhone ..."
well maybe apple will do somewhen in the future ... maybe it is still too expensive for them?
Really? That’s disappointing. I was hoping for a uniform panel on my next MacBook.
Just kidding.
Don’t check the Pros then, you’ll be horrified by those hideous uneven pinkish screens
hmm the pros are much more even, were you joking here ?Don’t check the Pros then, you’ll be horrified by those hideous uneven pinkish screens
Not long ago, I talked about my experience visiting several Apple Stores, where I found that over 60% of the displays with Samsung panels had some sort of pink hue or lack of uniformity. It seems you didn’t read that message.
Nor did you see the many others from users reporting the same issue with their iPhones that have Samsung panels — in case you don’t take my word for it.
In fact, I’ve sometimes thought about gathering all those reports together, but I haven’t done it to avoid bothering the people who posted them with notifications from weeks-old messages.
Anyway, it doesn’t really matter. Everyone should enjoy the panel they like best.
This whole Samsung vs LG “war” already seems ridiculous to me.
Poor BOE. Give it a seat in the ring.We've moved onto infighting:
GH3 vs GVC
and
G9N vs G9Q (vs G9P?)
J5V vs J5V?
Don’t think we’ve seen multiple serials of BOE yet but pretty small sample sizes
G9Q seems to have much, much, much less (or none at all) of the pink hue in what I've seen.
Yesterday I dropped my Air into concrete and dinged the hell out of the titanium frame. It's annoying knowing it's all dinged up but given I got a perfect unicorn G9P display on my Air, there's no way I'm replacing my Air with another one since the odds are 99% that I'd get a lemon display on my replacement Air.
The display wasn't damaged, just the titanium frame. So, Imma rock this dinged up Air and just call it a weathered diamond. 🌪️💎💫 😹
The display wasn't damaged, just the titanium frame. So, Imma rock this dinged up Air and just call it a weathered diamond. 🌪️💎💫 😹
Really does seem odd that people will just accept non-uniform samsung screens vs uniform LG screens that have tint off-axis, just because some stranger on the internet said so. Even disbelieving their own actual eyes because they have been told samsung are good and LG are crud.
"Yeah my screen changes tint like a rainbow top to bottom, but it must be me coz the internet strangers said samsung screens are awesome"
You'll replace it. And you'll get a non-G9P screen. You'll try to get that replaced as well. I can bet on it lol
I’m old enough to remember when people were genuinely mad at Samsung display being in their iPhone, irrespective of panel lottery, simply because Samsung (not Samsung Display mind you) made the most successful direct competing android phone 🤪
They were ready to go Steve Jobs “scorched earth” over it. Blind Brand loyalty is one of the most mind boggling things of all time to me.
It even extends to “apple can do no wrong” and if the user finds a fault with a product or its durability or longevity or clear engineering faults or design decisions, it *must* be them and not the product. Even when Apple extends coverage for widespread known faults (that they say “affects a minor subset of users” but enough to be willing to cover the issue at hand).
Talk about your possessions you own “owning” you
haha part of me wants to test my odds and buy one at the apple store today, but I've been thru these lotteries before and I don't want to fall into that loop again of buy / exchange. So, I might try just once, open it right there, and just return it right there without even leaving the store. Just to tell myself I tried. lol
Rumor on the Fold is all Samsung panels, so threads like this should be quieter without the LuckyGoldstar drama.
There will absolutely still be drama. When Retina MacBook pros came out 10+ years ago I believe Samsung was the sole supplier at the beginning and while a nice one looked outstanding and truly a peak into the future of laptop displays, multi tint uneven hue was the norm.
..I didn’t get my first retina Mac until 2015 with 12” MacBook but lots of junky displays there too. And I then upgraded to 2016 no touchbar 13” MBP which I still use as a win10 and retro Mac machine. Beautiful P3 display but it even had a too short spec display cable internally get mangled from regular use of opening and closing the lid and it got the dreaded spotlighting effect. Got it repaired and replacement was pretty good too but didn’t hit the same highs as the original display that came with it.
Same with the retina iPad 3 they slapped an a5x into. Thing was a dog performance wise, and I had to go through a painfully frustrating number of units to get one I was happy with. I think that was Samsung exclusive.
Even iPad 4 with a6x coming out the same year and a lightning port instead of 30 pin I refused to put myself through hell again and kept my iPad 3 for a very long time and even skipped the Air and got Air 2 pretty late in the game.
That still scars me.
Like the amount of trouble I went through with iPhone X to get a keeper. A good iPhone X oled display was markedly better quality wise than anything else they put out previously and a clear jump to the next era of iPhone. A bad iPhone X which was not uncommon had me wishing Apple stayed with nicely calibrated LCDs.
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