I've owned the S8 Plus, Max and 7 Plus. How can anyone suggest that a 1,080 x 1,920 pixel LCD display on the pluses is on par with something like the 1,440 x 2,960 pixel OLED display on an S8 Plus. It's not even a point worth arguing.
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iPhone X Are iPhone Screens As Good As Samsung Galaxy/Note Now?
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I've owned the S8 Plus, Max and 7 Plus. How can anyone suggest that a 1,080 x 1,920 pixel LCD display on the pluses is on par with something like the 1,440 x 2,960 pixel OLED display on an S8 Plus. It's not even a point worth arguing.
Settings, general, accessibility, display accommodation, colour filters, and select tritanopia.
That should saturate your display on iOS.
Enjoy.
On paper you have a point, in real life it’s quite different.
iPhone 8plus has an upgraded display compared to the 7plus it is actually very noticeable and perhaps one of the best lcd displays I have ever used.
Apple were very big on pictures being accurate on camera, but from this year with Xs, reviewers have noticed apple's new HDR techniques are less accurate but more visually striking on the pictures.
It is what the world wants.
Looks like my friends will have the right to claim their screen is best for yet another generation of phones.
It's only beneficial for Samsung to have a strong iPhone screen since it gives them more bargaining power over LG, who has astonishingly disappointing mobile OLED displays. Plus, Samsung gets more revenue as Apple sells more OLED devices. Though, I am surprised Samsung hasn't found a way to make their Galaxies edge out even the newest iPhones instead of a back and forth cycle who takes 1st place.
Samsung s9/note9 screen has support for small area dynamic contrast/ brightness which can fine tune the image better giving better clarity and depth.
Think iPhone oled doesn't support this kind of dynamic image processing.
Not even close... They still look washed out and I cant tell the difference between an Apple OLED screen and their old LCD screens.
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That means absolutely nothing. just because both screens are made by the same manufacturer, specs, calibration and color scales could be (and in this case are) completely different.
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That means absolutely nothing. just because both screens are made by the same manufacturer, specs, calibration and color scales could be (and in this case are) completely different.
Good. I hate arguing. I prefer open polite discussion.
I said it compares favorably. Meaning it still stands as a viable alternative while manufacturers refine the quality control issues that still plague OLED and restrict yield, as well as work to bring costs down. I'm refuting the statement that LCD displays of this caliber are utter crap. They are not. They're excellent and well above "merely serviceable".
When looking at my indoor photos on both the 8 Plus and the Max and the S9+, there's no discernible difference in how the photos look. Really. I was quite surprised by that myself.
Where I do see a difference is in outdoor photos with lots of natural light. Then the Max demonstrates superior revelation of details due to a higher dynamic range and higher resolution and contrast ratio. It's a difference most people will appreciate especially for bragging rights. But if I had to surrender my Max today and go back to an 8 Plus display exclusively I would not be bereft of a high quality display.
You can’t seriously think that the cartoon on the bottom looks better than the iPhone.So I took a picture of a vibrant scene from my Xs Max compared to my friend's s9 plus.
The picture doesn't do it justice as the differences are far more pronounced in real life but you can see the differences I was talking about.
The Xs Max looks good by itself but next to the Samsung it looks washed out, others around who saw me taking the picture live said the same thing.
The Samsung one looks like it's coming to life, whereas my max looks a bit more like a picture. Same source picture on both, and trust in me, in real life with the human eye the differences are far greater.
Everyone uses a filter on snapchat, instagram facebook etc to enhance their picture. Filters make it look better, that is why people use them. And the Samsung does look better to my eye.
It’s terrible it doesn’t look good or natural at all and I promise you it’s not remotely true to what that scene looked like.
It's too bad that these phones don't have external inputs so I can use industry standard calibration discs and sensors (like are used to calibrate large flat panel TVs) to see how accurate the colors really are. Most people "overrate" the added color pops of certain displays and have no idea how far out of whack those displays are. Until one gets a chance to play with properly calibrated displays and calibration test equipment they have no idea how far off this stuff can be.
If I could do such a test on an Apple screen I bet they would do better than most in tests. Apple likes to "oversmooth" on occasion but they do look good on color generally speaking.
If I could do such a test on an Apple screen I bet they would do better than most in tests. Apple likes to "oversmooth" on occasion but they do look good on color generally speaking.
according to the displaymate article the Xs and Xs Max screens are the best smartphone screens period. Just beating out the Note 9.
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I prefer color accuracy. I want the photos I take to look like what I took. It also helps with photo and video editing.
Nope that’s it, colours go a bit deeper but not overly saturated or pop as you put it.
You're friends will be wrong then, and you have no idea what the world wants. Just say this is what you want, and what you prefer. Not really complicated, for you a Samsung will work better, for others iPhone will work better. Nothing wrong with that. I like them both.
You keep saying "Everyone". You might find yourself having a more fruitful discussion if you learn to accept the fact that NOT "Everyone" prefers whatever.
Quit lumping us in with your personal preferences. You like more vibrant colors? Fantastic. Lots of people like more vibrant colors. However, lots of people don't. It's not like one manufacturer's device has the best screen ever and the competition has utter crap. Both are extremely highly regarded screens. They're the best of the best and miles ahead of most of the competition. Pick the flavor you prefer and don't worry about what I prefer, because you're doing a pretty poor job at guessing my preferences.
As for what your friends might say when they see that your screen isn't "as good" as their screen, who cares? If the goal is to compete with them, buy the same equipment. My goal is to get a phone I like and am happy with and one that serves my needs.
For the record, filters don't make photos look better. They make them look different. Sometimes that's better, sometimes that isn't. And in ALL cases that's an extremely subjective decision.
I think that we’re not talking about the screen itself so much as the saturation and contrast of the rendering algorithms. Personally I prefer Apple’s rendition, but it’s personal taste that others may not share. One image is not better than the other, they’re just rendered differently.
That said, I can take Apple’s image in the comparison and easily make it more saturated and contrasty than Samsung’s in any simple image editor, and Apple could do this in their rendering algorithm if they chose.
As a hobbyist photographer, I find comparisons like these almost meaningless because 5 seconds in any image editor, even on-phone apps, will make the images indistinguishable. Choose what you like but one isn’t better than the other except from a personal taste standpoint.
Cheers, Azy
That said, I can take Apple’s image in the comparison and easily make it more saturated and contrasty than Samsung’s in any simple image editor, and Apple could do this in their rendering algorithm if they chose.
As a hobbyist photographer, I find comparisons like these almost meaningless because 5 seconds in any image editor, even on-phone apps, will make the images indistinguishable. Choose what you like but one isn’t better than the other except from a personal taste standpoint.
Cheers, Azy
Cartoonish indeed looks terrible on my screen.
I’m guessing it looks better on a Samsung?
id rather the screen be accurate, but most people are used to 'torch mode'. it's worse with tvs. i paid big money to have my 65 inch lg oled calibrated correctly.
As a semi-pro photographer, I'll go with accuracy over vibrance any day. If I'm showing a client some portfolio examples, I prefer to do so on my iPhone as opposed to the Samsung that my wife used to have (she just switched to iPhone w/ a Max). The colors are far more accurate to my color corrected display that we use at home for editing. Greens, reds and oranges were all pushed way too hard on the Samsungs, and they were just too far off from what they actually were on a color corrected monitor that is used for our editing.
Not saying Samsung screens don't look good, but the artificial pushing of saturation levels is definitely not my cup of tea.
Not saying Samsung screens don't look good, but the artificial pushing of saturation levels is definitely not my cup of tea.
It sounds cliche, but it really just comes down to user preference. I think the Apple OLED is better for a few reasons. The calibration Apple does at the sub-pixel level does give the display more clarity, to my eyes at least. I'm not sure why Samsung is not doing that same level of calibration on the displays for their flagships. With any Samsung phone or any non-Apple OLED, my eyes can detect some level of graininess that just isn't present on Apple's OLED. I also do prefer the flat, non-curved edges of the Apple OLED. As for color accuracy, I honestly think it's a non-issue. In my experience, adaptive screen mode will change with the content to show accurate colors. While obviously not perfect, like not adapting to images on a web page, it does a great job at adapting to native content like the gallery app, or full-screen streaming video.
The Note9 has a fantastic display, and if it was flat and given just a little more TLC at the sub-pixel level, to eliminate the effect of a pentile matrix, then it'd be perfect. For now, I prefer Apple's OLED. I think just like their attention to supreme build quality, they go just that extra step to make it a notch above the competition.
The Note9 has a fantastic display, and if it was flat and given just a little more TLC at the sub-pixel level, to eliminate the effect of a pentile matrix, then it'd be perfect. For now, I prefer Apple's OLED. I think just like their attention to supreme build quality, they go just that extra step to make it a notch above the competition.