I completely agree, i've been lucky with my two iphone 4 handsets, I just hope the next iphone (which I will wait before upgrading) doesnt have this issue.
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I completely agree, i've been lucky with my two iphone 4 handsets, I just hope the next iphone (which I will wait before upgrading) doesnt have this issue.
Just like "Watergate", in which there was a lot of lying and denial going on by the folks in power,
Antennagate and Yellowgate is Apple and Apple users doing some serious lying/denial.
That's why the initial post has so many down votes. Seriously, guys.
If you don't like the look of the screen on your 4s, then either get rid of it and get something else or quick bitching about it and move on.
Posting and whining about not liking the screen on your phone is stupid, vote with your wallet and move on, most of us don't care.
And for the record I was alive during Watergate.
Posting and whining about not liking the screen on your phone is stupid, vote with your wallet and move on, most of us don't care.
And for the record I was alive during Watergate.
antennagate
yellowgate
what's up with this 'gate'?? why only pinpoint iphone? MAYBE it's a ploy by rival companies(& media favorable to them) to infamous the RARE RARE instances/problems that are caused by apple products
yellowgate
what's up with this 'gate'?? why only pinpoint iphone? MAYBE it's a ploy by rival companies(& media favorable to them) to infamous the RARE RARE instances/problems that are caused by apple products
didn't even notice the slight yellow tint until I got a new phone (for another reason). I compared them and noticed that my old one (that was going back) was a tad different.
The way that Apple users lie is stunning. Lying about the issue doesn't help your case.
We were told that "the pixel density is so high that the human eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels" when in fact, you CAN see distinguish the individual pixels with your naked eye.
That's a lot of cover up.
What's next? The camera? If they tell me the phone takes 1080p, I want 1080p.
We were told that "the pixel density is so high that the human eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels" when in fact, you CAN see distinguish the individual pixels with your naked eye.
That's a lot of cover up.
What's next? The camera? If they tell me the phone takes 1080p, I want 1080p.
Yet you give them your money.
Congratulations, though - if this is your biggest worry in life, you're one lucky guy.
i want to say that it might be of 3 reasons:
1) they don't experience these problems
2) they experience but it doesn't really bothers them much
3) they bought the most expensive phone/tablet in the market, what do you expect?
I sure do. But it's about solving a blatant issue. I'm a happy Apple user, but I don't take part in the denial. It's not sedition.
If the problem is so wide spread, why did I have to be surprised? Why did I have to wait until I bought the product before anybody told me about it?
I'm curious why you keep editing your post and changing/removing your arguments. Maybe that's the real cover up.
I'm curious why you keep editing your post and changing/removing your arguments. Maybe that's the real cover up.
I'm not going to say anything more.
You don't solve problems by denying them.
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True. But I think that you are taking your personal experience and projecting that thinking to everybody else. Just because they disagree with you, doesn't mean they are in denial. Perhaps they just have a different opinion. For example, before you edited your post you said "The fact that iTunes is actually complicated". That's not fact; it's just an opinion, one that others are free to disagree with.
Being a mod is useful sometimes, isn't it?
Nothing to do with being a mod. I read his post before he edited it.
If it affects 90% of all phones, wouldn't this suggest that Apple intended the screen to be of a warmish hue? In that case, the 10% of all phones that aren't "yellow" would be the problem. So shouldn't you be happy not to have one of the "bad batch" blue ones?
Not sure that not talking about a possible issue is the same as lying about it or denying its existence.
You are not solving your problem by not getting your "yellow" iPhone replaced with a "blue" one. How is moaning about it here going to solve your problem?
I would have liked to have been told that the yellow screen is normal, which you just did, so I guess the problem is solved.
Well, it's not really solved, but I guess Yellowgate will continue to exist without explanation.
It's my opinion too: there's a problem with iPhone 4s displays and to me it's worse than the antenna problem of the iPhone 4. If it's not a defect, then there's a least one manufacturer providing lower quality displays - and i guess Apple knows this. It's similar to the macbook pro displays - there are different manufacturers providing different quality (same yellow tint problem). Maybe to meet the high demand, Apple lowered quality standards.
I have ordered two 4s (mid January / mid February). Both have a yellow tint and it's very noticeable without comparing to another iPhone. White looks like the color of an old newspaper. I compared it with the iPhones displayed in the Apple store (and other stores). The ones displayed there were perfect... But to me it seems the chance of getting the better quality display is low. Just look at the growing thread of 50+ pages in the apple community forum. I'm disappointed considering the price of an iPhone.
I have ordered two 4s (mid January / mid February). Both have a yellow tint and it's very noticeable without comparing to another iPhone. White looks like the color of an old newspaper. I compared it with the iPhones displayed in the Apple store (and other stores). The ones displayed there were perfect... But to me it seems the chance of getting the better quality display is low. Just look at the growing thread of 50+ pages in the apple community forum. I'm disappointed considering the price of an iPhone.
Ah. I thought you might have a "read edits" functions as I used to have on the forum I help moderate - at least before we went to Xenforo...
Here's a pic. As I mentioned, much improved and barely noticible. When I crank up the brightness it doesn't bother me. Too much. This crap-tacular pic was taken with an iPod and who knows what the white auto balance did to it.
This crap-tacular pic was taken with an iPod and who knows what the white auto balance did to it.
I could be wrong but I believe that app, available after jailbreaking, is called "Color Profiles".
Good luck.
I think yellow is the "new" white & I don't think Apple is going to do anything about the screen temperatures of iOS devices.
I currently have an iPhone 4S with a very yellowish screen, but I've decided to just put up with it because I love the iPhone a lot. Part of the reasoning for coming to this conclusion is that I've been through 4 other iPhone 4S (from different stores, different time periods) & all of them have got various degrees of yellowish screens. Not one of those iPhones I came across has got a non-yellowish screen. This led me to humbly believe that based solely on my experiences, it may be fair to say that about 90% of the iPhone 4S have got yellow screens (of various degrees).
I could have kept going for replacement phones, but at some point in time, this exchange "madness" has got to stop as it is not getting me anywhere & the whole exchange processes are just a waste of my time, effort, & gas money. Maybe I'm just unlucky, but having used my yellow screen for quite a while, I do not see the "yellowish" on my screen anymore as I got used to it.
Note that I do still keep my iPhone 3GS which has got a cool blueish tint, so I can definitely see the differences in the screens when I compare both of them side by side.
You may want to read the following thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3385567
Good luck.
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Stop that now! You know it'll only lead to reason and logic and once that happens it'll become an epidemic. Everyone will start trying it themselves. We'll have utter anarchy. Utter!
On a side note, why do we keep seeing our youth make attempts to garner attention (i.e. yellowgate/batterygate/switchgate/etc.) for an individual opinion that they incorrectly believe is factual and all suffer from the same affliction?
Not enough attention from parental units?
Now, my opinion. Its not yellow, but its warmer than the colder blue. Comparing an iPhone screen to an iPad screen isn't the same, but I see you did use it as a comparison of coloring. But both screens looked normal to me.
If apple included a color calibration setting we wouldn't see threads complaining about screen temperature.
I don't know if my screen has a warm or cool temperature but it doesn't really matter to me, it still looks good.
I don't know if my screen has a warm or cool temperature but it doesn't really matter to me, it still looks good.