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Yellow Tint!
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That is the same exact problem area with the two returns I had. Top left in portrait and bottom left in landscape. I too am giving up for a few months until they fix what is a defect in my opinion, others may disagree.
That is the same exact problem area with the two returns I had. Top left in portrait and bottom left in landscape. I too am giving up for a few months until they fix what is a defect in my opinion, others may disagree.
That's what I'm thinking of doing now. I was going to pick one up when going to the US in a couple of weeks to save some money (they cost about 180 dollars less there than here), but with all these threads I really don't feel like getting a new one in a country where I don't even live. So I think I'll wait three months or so and then get one at home.
experiencing the same problem, perhaps.
Bought it in Hong Kong
4G 32GB Black AT&T (Week 8 Production)
still no way to exchange it since HK does not have the 4G models available yet
Really disturbing when surfing the net.
It looks dim and yellow
(Bottom left in landscape mode and Top Left in portrait mode)
I'm OCD like the rest of the people here, but this iPad looks more than acceptable. Especially in relation to many of the other pictures posted on this thread.
Mine looks the same when I compare to my wife's iPad 2, however, I compared my new iPad with my iPhone 4 and the screens look very close. I'm thinking the iPad 2 screen after looking at it for so long just became normal to me and making me feel that there's something wrong with the new iPad.
After all this crap, I am considering just getting a two and bein done with it. Save 300 dollars and not have a non uniform screen.
I found a 32 GB Verizon absolute mind condition iPad 2 with the in case magazine jacket for 500. That's 300 saved.
But I can't decide if I want to keep hassling with this crap for the retina display or not ...
Regardless of my decision do you think that 500 is a good deal for a perfect one with the magazine jacket?
I found a 32 GB Verizon absolute mind condition iPad 2 with the in case magazine jacket for 500. That's 300 saved.
But I can't decide if I want to keep hassling with this crap for the retina display or not ...
Regardless of my decision do you think that 500 is a good deal for a perfect one with the magazine jacket?
Mine is slightly yellow on the left 1/3 in portrait view, it makes reading experience very unpleasant since the beginning of every line is always dimmer.
It is a black 32gb wifi made in Janunary (2nd production week), besides the yellowing it also has very minor light leak which is no big deal to me, but the uneven white is unacceptable.
I have been using it for a few days now and it hasn't gotten any better, might just go to the Apple store today and get it sorted.
Are the replacement units at the genius bar right now coming from brand new retail boxes?
Thanks
It is a black 32gb wifi made in Janunary (2nd production week), besides the yellowing it also has very minor light leak which is no big deal to me, but the uneven white is unacceptable.
I have been using it for a few days now and it hasn't gotten any better, might just go to the Apple store today and get it sorted.
Are the replacement units at the genius bar right now coming from brand new retail boxes?
Thanks
The new iPad looks warmer, but I guess this goes out to everyone: when are you using both your ipad 2 and the new ipad at the same time? A uniformly warmer screen doesn't seem defective, it is just calibrated differently.
I know its just my opinion, but I would rather have a slightly yellow tinted retina screen, than a iPad 2 white screen. I only really notice it now when I am in the mail app (because of the white background), and when Im really looking for it.
However, I always notice how great text, pictures, and movies look on the new screen.
I don't mind the yellow screen I mind when different sections of the screen are different colors.
I've opened 4 new iPads and they all have had problems.
I did this crap with my iMac last year going back and forth to the store. I don't want to do that with this. I'd rather have a uniform screen and save 300 dollars than deal with the headache of this crap.
The screen is gorgeous I know but it sucks we have to even be discussing this.
I've opened 4 new iPads and they all have had problems.
I did this crap with my iMac last year going back and forth to the store. I don't want to do that with this. I'd rather have a uniform screen and save 300 dollars than deal with the headache of this crap.
The screen is gorgeous I know but it sucks we have to even be discussing this.
hmm, now that I am looking at it, sometimes my screen looks like its different shades in the corners. However, when I am in a room with good overhead light I don't really notice it at all. I still would never go back to the older screen.
Trust me. The whole left side of mine is yellow and the right side looks pinkish.
It looks like crap and is super noticeable on the things that I do. Especially when I have the keyboard in normal mode, the left side of the keyboard is yellow and the right side is not.
That isn't right, and I'm not going to pay 800 dollars for something I'm not happy with. Trust me, I know it will be hard to use the old screen. But st least it will be uniformed color and won't look like splotchy crap.
Plus I will save 300 dollars. Maybe a couple months from now I will buy a new one again and see if the screens are any better.
It looks like crap and is super noticeable on the things that I do. Especially when I have the keyboard in normal mode, the left side of the keyboard is yellow and the right side is not.
That isn't right, and I'm not going to pay 800 dollars for something I'm not happy with. Trust me, I know it will be hard to use the old screen. But st least it will be uniformed color and won't look like splotchy crap.
Plus I will save 300 dollars. Maybe a couple months from now I will buy a new one again and see if the screens are any better.
This is my first iPad, but it seems like I've got the yellow tint issue too. I hope the images do it justice. They were taken at max brightness. In the images, the yellow-ish begins on the left (or iPad top). You can really tell when the keyboard is plit.
I've been using it since it was released and yesterday ramped it up to max brightness for a few hours after reading this might help. Do I need to worry about the tint never going away and exchange it or should this particular problem resolve itself? Thanks!
I've been using it since it was released and yesterday ramped it up to max brightness for a few hours after reading this might help. Do I need to worry about the tint never going away and exchange it or should this particular problem resolve itself? Thanks!
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To be honest, I haven't seen a single iPad 3 that doesn't have that. I tried four myself, looked at half a dozen display models and checked a couple that family members had bought. All of them have the tinting. All. Of. Them.
People that say their iPad is "perfect" simply don't know what an LCD panel is supposed to look like. It's that simple.
Returning mine tomorrow. Tried to live with it but no dice. The last straw was trying to read a book on it. Its not yellow but colours kept switching from pink to green to white including the switch between bright and dull areas. Rinse repeat cycle. Simply not uniform and therefore...its sayonara.
Think thats it for me altogether as well. Tired of the run around. I'm not gonna get an iPad 2 after being exposed to a retina screen, and pretty much 95% of the existing batch of iPad 3s have problems so...just gonna get a refund and call it a day. Finally, i'm probably gonna stop buying new Apple hardware revisions on launch date/week. Because ever since Apple became mainstream and have had to mass produce more, QC simply hasn't been the same...i.e. they rarely ever get it right the first time.
Think thats it for me altogether as well. Tired of the run around. I'm not gonna get an iPad 2 after being exposed to a retina screen, and pretty much 95% of the existing batch of iPad 3s have problems so...just gonna get a refund and call it a day. Finally, i'm probably gonna stop buying new Apple hardware revisions on launch date/week. Because ever since Apple became mainstream and have had to mass produce more, QC simply hasn't been the same...i.e. they rarely ever get it right the first time.
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I agree but I am planning on gettin a used 2 fo way cheaper.
The iPad is too useful just to not get one. I'm sure I will adjust to the iPad 2 screen again .... I hope lol
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