Every year people always assume serial numbers have to do with batches and what screen comes with. Every year, it's proved meaningless. If your phone is not up to par for you, return or exchange it.
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Every year people always assume serial numbers have to do with batches and what screen comes with. Every year, it's proved meaningless. If your phone is not up to par for you, return or exchange it.
That doesn't change that the two suppliers may have different production methods. This is no different than the samsung vs TSMC, both delivered the A9, but using different manufaturing process.
No, you are comparing Apples with Oranges. This is nothing like the Samsung and TSMC A9 debacle. CPU manufacturing is entirely different than display manufacturing.
Your source compares two entire different display technologies. PLS and IPS are not the same. PLS is a different display technology to IPS, like OLED is a different display technology to IPS. The displays manufactured for the iPhone are all IPS panels.
If Apple gives guidelines to the manufacturers for creating S-IPS panels, the manufacturers create S-IPS panels and not PLS, OLED or VA panels. The manufacturing process for displays stays exactly the same for every display, the pixel-grid is assembled the same way etc. If Apple wanted H-IPS panels, all manufactured displays would be H-IPS panels. There would not be some S-IPS panels, some H-IPS panels and some e-IPS panels and so forth.
Your saying that it is the same like the Samsung vs TSMC, 16nm vs 14nm A9 debacle, but than provide sources for entire different display technologies which can't be transferred to your analogy. Your point with "not all pixels are created equal" applies to entire different screen technologies, but not to within a manufacturing process of a certain technology.
With your analogy, comparison and your provided sources you basically imply that Apple - to use your falsely used comparison - did put an A9 chip in some iPhone 7s and an A10 in other iPhone 7s...
What I think you want to try to say is that while all displays are manufactured with the same technology, there are still differences. That is true, even if displays are created on the same manufacturing line, they still are not exactly the same. But the important thing to take notice of here, is that after calibrating the iPhone displays, especially the new ones with the new P3 color spectrum, the differences between those displays in terms of color, brightness etc. is not noticeable without proper instruments to measure them.
But to come to my original point for posting in this thread. I'm not saying that there are no problems with the screens of the 7. There is the issue with the claimed "25% more brightness" and questionable things like the sapphire glass on the camera lens/home button etc.
My point was that with the new P3 color gamut the displays of the 7 look in general warmer and have a more accurate white point and more accurate colors than the cooler displays from the 6s and 6 series. And some people seem to do the mistake of associating a warmer screen = bad and a cooler screen = good.
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Take a look at this (the Section that refers to the display of the IP7).
https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/19/iphone-7-speed-test/
https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/19/iphone-7-speed-test/
Probably should be mentioned every few pages...
Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Color Filters.
Fully customizable temp/hue.
You want it icey cold. No prob. I was able to get the 7 I played with, as cool as the Note 5 I had next to it. And that's a cool display.
Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Color Filters.
Fully customizable temp/hue.
You want it icey cold. No prob. I was able to get the 7 I played with, as cool as the Note 5 I had next to it. And that's a cool display.
when i set a cooler Display Color on my iPhone, the brightness went down. in Standard mode the brightness is on the highest possible rate.
Gotcha. I'm usually at manual 30-40% display brightness...so that doesn't affect me so much, but I could see how it could some people
http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone7_ShootOut_1.htm#
They're saying flattering things
"And for those of you thinking of Emailing that we got hand-picked units, the iPhones were purchased retail from Verizon Wireless."
"The iPhone 7 produces up to an impressive Peak Brightness of 705 nits when Automatic Brightness is turned On in High Ambient Light, where high Brightness is really needed."
maybe auto brightness is key to 25% brighter claim??
They're saying flattering things
"And for those of you thinking of Emailing that we got hand-picked units, the iPhones were purchased retail from Verizon Wireless."
"The iPhone 7 produces up to an impressive Peak Brightness of 705 nits when Automatic Brightness is turned On in High Ambient Light, where high Brightness is really needed."
maybe auto brightness is key to 25% brighter claim??
http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone7_ShootOut_1.htm#
They're saying flattering things
"And for those of you thinking of Emailing that we got hand-picked units, the iPhones were purchased retail from Verizon Wireless."
"The iPhone 7 produces up to an impressive Peak Brightness of 705 nits when Automatic Brightness is turned On in High Ambient Light, where high Brightness is really needed."
maybe auto brightness is key to 25% brighter claim??
Difficult to know which screen they got without pics side by side of the 6 and 7 on the settings screen. Im guessing thry got lucky and got the good screens.
So I received a launch day iPhone 7 Plus (Silver) with the yellow tint and dull screen. I exchanged the phone for a 256G iPhone 7 + Black and the difference is ASTONISHING. My new replacement phone is crisp, vivid and much brighter then my previous I7+ and my 6s+. There are great vivid screens out there....
Ow that the display was ranked best mobile display ever can the complaint era please stop overreacting
Relevant information from the DisplayMate iPhone 6/7 shootout here:
- DisplayMate calls the iPhone 7 display the best ever on a smartphone.
- The white balance is warmer, but accurate:
- 7,241 K for the iPhone 6 (White is slightly Bluish)
- 6,806 K for the iPhone 7 (Very Close to Standard)
- 25% higher brightness is apparent only when both:
- Auto-brightness is set to on
- iPhone is in high ambient light, under which:
- iPhone 6 reaches 558 cd/m2
- iPhone 7 reaches 705 cd/m2 (increase over iPhone 6 of 26.34%)
I have three phones, two 7+ and one 7, and none of the displays are yellow. They are less cool / blue looking than the display on my wife's 6, but I think it looks better, and more similar to my 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina. My wife's 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina also has a cool / blue display like her iPhone 6, so it seems as though Apple is calibrating their displays warmer now than a couple years ago across all of their product lines (new iPad Pro as well).
The micro-layer of glue on the digitizer has a lot to do with it and the display will settle in about 7-10 after it has been assembled/manufactured. The article you linked to is an excellent resource on how to calibrate the display to your own liking, which is a brilliant move by Apple to get screen-color crazed crowd off their backs and stop this nonsense of a select few making up to a dozen or more returns in hopes of getting a kelvin they are happy with.
BOOM goes the dynamite.
My goodness. You really are crazed over this aren't you? Your crusade against Apple's displays has been ongoing (and unjustified) for years. But no matter what people say, you'll still shout from the rooftops with a conspiracy theory that Apple intentionally uses inferior screens during an iPhone launch and a variety of other crazy stories. Well, experts in the field certainly disagree with your findings: https://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/19/iphone-7-best-lcd-display-ever-displaymate/
I'll just leave this here, https://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/19/iphone-7-best-lcd-display-ever-displaymate/
Just on this page of the thread several people have commented that they were able to get one of the good screens. Are you even reading the thread? Displaymate obviously tested one of the good screens. Good to hear that its possible to get a great screen. Many, however, did not get one of those.
There isn't one screen on the 7. There are multiple. It's multiple suppliers. One is better than the other.
It's apparent that you are adamant on your stance (and slightly rude in your response), but I disagree with you. LOCA glue is used on the glass and a different type of adhesive is used on the digitizer. You can disagree with this all you want, but it is an indisputable fact.
This is mentioned on the first page of this thread. It does not fix the problem. I would have just returned the phone if it wasn't working right. He said they didn't have any in stock at the time this thread opened. I would have just gotten a different iPhone at that point. Does the outside color really matter? Haha. That is just my opinion. No trolls please. Haha.
Of course I've read the entire thread, and many others that you are partaking in. As I said, your conspiracy theories about Apple's displays are all over the place.
Give it a rest. Since you're so unhappy with Apple, don't even consider them and get yourself a Samsung phone. They make great devices too and maybe you'll find happiness over there.
Can you point to any conspiracy theory I've perpetuated? It's been an evolving discussion and we've landed on there are multiple Apple display suppliers (indisputable), and the screens from these suppliers look different from one another (indisputable).
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