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Looks slightly pink mate, but it looks good, doesn't look pissy in the slightest
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Looks slightly pink mate, but it looks good, doesn't look pissy in the slightest
I got my 9th unboxed iPad today and it looks like they have finally weeded out the pissy screens, the one before this was brilliant white but had a green corner but this looks perfectly neutral thank god. This now is definitely a keeper.
The guy at the store refused to swap it originally due to my history with this ipad but i stood fast and got a new one
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Looks slightly pink mate, but it looks good, doesn't look pissy in the slightest
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I got my 9th unboxed iPad today and it looks like they have finally weeded out the pissy screens, the one before this was brilliant white but had a green corner but this looks perfectly neutral thank god. This now is definitely a keeper.
The guy at the store refused to swap it originally due to my history with this ipad but i stood fast and got a new one
Wow.....9 huh. Glad you finally found one you like.
Too me....the pics look good. Hard to tell unless it's taken with another iPad or iPhone what temp it really is.
Apple really needs to allow some slight calibration on the iPad. Bury it in an advanced menu and give a "reset" button if someone really messes it up. I understand some of the really yellow screens are defects....but I have to imagine that a lot of them, like mine, are calibrated to the color they are.
I also agree with someone on the Apple forums......I think in general most devices and monitors these days are set way to cool and blue. We've all been trained that a blue-white is the "correct" white. I think if you ask a color expert they'd disagree and say a more natural white is a warmer white.
-Kevin
I agree with you kev,
It would be nice just to cool it a touch, especially as I own a cool blue iPhone 4s. But when jailbreak drops you can always install color profiles, it's epic, it does what apple should have implemented natively
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It's kinda funny as it feels totally neutral, but if I had to say anything I would say its leaning warm... But I only have my cool blue iPhone and cool blue Samsung TV to compare with. I think a blueberry would look warm up against those screens, lol
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I agree......unless I still had my iPad 2, I probably wouldn't even know (that and me reading these damn forums
) I rarely use my iPhone and iPad at the same time. Like I said....my biggest complaint is when tilting the new one. Compared to the iPad2, I think the new iPad has slightly worse viewing angles.....gets darker quicker. Now whether that's mine or all....no idea....but right now it's not enough to have me gamble on taking it back and getting a crappy screen.
-Kevin
I agree......unless I still had my iPad 2, I probably wouldn't even know (that and me reading these damn forums
Like I said....my biggest complaint is when tilting the new one. Compared to the iPad2, I think the new iPad has slightly worse viewing angles.....gets darker quicker. Now whether that's mine or all....no idea....but right now it's not enough to have me gamble on taking it back and getting a crappy screen.
-Kevin
I think that's all of them mate, the iPad 2 definitely had better viewing angles.
I tell you though I was so near the end of my tether with this pad today I was gonna ask if he could just give me a 64gb ipad2 replacement. Scary but just was stressed out at my bad luck of keep getting useless technicolor raincoat iPads
Glad I'm not the only one seeing this.
Only problem with that is....the new screen are just so fricken clear. I gave my iPad 2 to my wife....and every once in a while she shows me some email or webpage.....I cringe after using the new iPad.....it's like going from a HDTV to an old school tube!
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Was going to post this in the other thread before it was locked.
Serious question, is the pink screen the norm? I had to download the black background, go into a dark room, turn the brightness to max, and then view at an angle to get the effect. My screen looks perfect under normal conditions.
Serious question, is the pink screen the norm? I had to download the black background, go into a dark room, turn the brightness to max, and then view at an angle to get the effect. My screen looks perfect under normal conditions.
Glad I'm not the only one seeing this.
Only problem with that is....the new screen are just so fricken clear. I gave my iPad 2 to my wife....and every once in a while she shows me some email or webpage.....I cringe after using the new iPad.....it's like going from a HDTV to an old school tube!
-Kevin
Lol, glad I got rid of my ipad 2 then
if you sell the iPad 2 she has and buy an iPad 3 you can choose the best and give her the other one. Then you can be king pad, lol----------
My mates screen is pink and it is perfectly uniform. As somebody posted earlier. It's not the pink or the yellow, its all about being uniformly one or the other
My mates screen is pink and it is perfectly uniform. As somebody posted earlier. It's not the pink or the yellow, its all about being uniformly one or the other
More accurately, it has too much red in its white colour components, something which could be calibrated out (mine often appears similar, although a colleague at work who is into photography actually thinks it's slightly too cool). Many TVs are set towards a blue tendency (~9000K). Compare this with natural sunlight, which is around 6500K and will appear much warmer in comparison (or yellow, if you prefer). We do get conditioned into what we prefer to look at, but as you said, it's uniformity that's important.
If your happy mate then enjoy, that's the bottom line always, because it's your hard earned cash going into apples pot of gold, and you deserve quality in return
This is my fifth, also the best one I've had so far.
Probably look at swapping it in the next few months, but right now I doubt I'll get much better.
Probably look at swapping it in the next few months, but right now I doubt I'll get much better.
If your happy mate then enjoy, that's the bottom line always, because it's your hard earned cash going into apples pot of gold, and you deserve quality in return
Oh I am happy with it. What I was trying to get at, is that while I thought the screen had a pink tinge, my colleague thought it tended towards blue. But that all hinges on what you have just been staring at. If he had been looking at a warm screen and I had been looking at a cool one, our brains come up with their own white reference point and compare what we see to that, which gives us our own view of how the screen appears.
In reality, I know from measuring the colour temperature of my iPad's screen that it is slightly over 6500K, which is the reference white level used by many photographers.
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To me, that screen looks fine. The colour is uniform, which is the most important thing.
Wow, it seems you're the unhappy one. About the yellow tint being temporary, well, just read more posts from these very forums... Or just below:
Ha, interesting finding. Thanks for sharing. Keep us posted about this.
In my other bad screen experience, with Samsung once again, I had 6 or 7 Samsung galaxy 2s due to a tinting problem, samsung simply cannot mass produce quality mobile device screens. Their TV screens on the other hand are first class
Bill
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Your one looks like my last one mate, very uniform but dark in a corner, if you can tolerate it then keep it for a few months then swap it out.. But there are good screens out there and it seems they are coming to the fore now
In my other bad screen experience, with Samsung once again, I had 6 or 7 Samsung galaxy 2s due to a tinting problem, samsung simply cannot mass produce quality mobile device screens. Their TV screens on the other hand are first class
Bill
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Your one looks like my last one mate, very uniform but dark in a corner, if you can tolerate it then keep it for a few months then swap it out.. But there are good screens out there and it seems they are coming to the fore now
I haven't had one even close to this uniform and when you look at this one, the variations are so slight. I'm going to wait to swap simply because the other four I tried were worse. It's been a frustrating couple weeks with this stuff, gotta take a break, lol.
I don't blame you mate, it's draining to deal with these stoned anti-geniuses who are total sheep towing the company line
I'm seeing the same thing on mine comparing it against my iPad 2.
I'm returning my new one for a refund.
what you should do is go in there with cash and just keep opening and returning until you get a right one
They cant leagally stop you, well they cant in the ukSorry guys, Ive suddenly become a little OCD. Firstly I like my iPad 3's screen so Im almost certainly going to keep it. My PC TFT screen that I use to browse this site is probably around 10yrs old now so everything looks yellow on it. Those of you with decent screens can probably be better judges. Ive lined my iPad 3 screen up with my monitor. Can you tell me how you rate the tone if you think there is one? Im not going to run off to Apple to exchange it, I just wanted to know whether you think its one of the decent ones. I have so say, Apple did say the tones of these panels were less blue/white and warmer and therefore accurate. Isnt it something like 96% colour accurate?
Ok here goes:
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You sir should vote on this thread. People said I was being April fooled when I said you people actually exist.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1352136/
I missed my return window so I will have to keep mine. I kept debating about whether to exchange it but I was worried that I would end up with one that was worse so I decided not to.
I wish this yellow sceen lark was all an April fool.
I have had 12 ipads and Im not lying, I wish I was.
A few yellow, a few pink, bad lighbleed.
Had managers in-store open a few and all bad.
I have been at this since day 1 and am really getting fed up with it now.
My main concern is that LG are on board and will be better in a few weeks maybe.
And if I dont keep refunding and buying, a genius swap in a few weeks may say no!
So I am in a right pickle! - And it dosnt help that the one I have is pretty good, but I should not have to put up with lightbleed.
How about waiting for a few weeks until all the old stock is cleared out? I would have stopped after 2 or 3
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