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Other This years screen lottery (17, 17 pro, 17 pro max and air)

barry.wiestling said:
Im dying to know if you got a Samsung panel. I have a GVC Air and it looks dingy compared to my G9P Samsung in my 15 pro.

Im on the fence about playing the screen lottery. This grainy look on white screens is driving me nuts.
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It’s def a Samsung and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also a G9N like my 17 Pro. It looks virtually identical in every angle. That said I don’t want to feed my obsession so I don’t want to look up the panel model for my sanity. But yea they’re out there!

Update: curiosity got the best of me and I looked. My Air has a G9Q Samsung panel. Looks as good as the G9N of my 17 Pro, so they're out there!

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If helpful, it's an iPhone Air Light Gold 256GB bought in Apple Grand Central in NYC.
 
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thatJohann said:
It’s def a Samsung and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also a G9N like my 17 Pro. It looks virtually identical in every angle. That said I don’t want to feed my obsession so I don’t want to look up the panel model for my sanity. But yea they’re out there!

Update: curiosity got the best of me and I looked. My Air has a G9Q Samsung panel. Looks as good as the G9N of my 17 Pro, so they're out there!

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If helpful, it's an iPhone Air Light Gold 256GB bought in Apple Grand Central in NYC.
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That’s great, congrats! I think I prefer my original 17PM with the GH3 screen. The vertical off axis shift is worse than this new GVC screen but uniformity is perfect. I notice slight unevenness with this one. Will give it the weekend and decide which one to keep Monday.
 
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On my third 17 Pro Max 512 GB blue, third one with GH3 screen.

The panel was washed out, green tint, and triggered PWM sensitivity on set up. This is becoming really frustrating. I feel so wasteful, but I can’t physically look at this panel without feeling sick.

I am writing this from my 14 pro G9N and no issues. No PWM issues at all.
 
ssynths said:
Got a GVC on my black 256GB Air in the US. I guessed it from first glance, but I can't say the panel is bad at all. Uniformity and overall accuracy seems fine. Maybe an eeever so slight green shift, if any. The only thing noticeably worse than my G9P 14 Pro is lower brightness when off-angle, but I only noticed this after putting on a screen protector (same brand, maybe different kind). I really don't know if it's worth pulling the lever until I got a nice samsung panel.
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Update on this. My GVC display is honestly perfectly fine outside of grain in low light. It's quite distracting though so I think it may be a deal breaker. I am probably going to return it.
 
I had the 16 Pro Max Black last year with GVC Panel which looked ok to me.
This year I got the blue 17 Pro Max 512GB and it has a G3H Panel. In my eyes it looks better than last years GVC when I compare them side by side.

I really can`t complain.
 
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Cruncher said:
I had the 16 Pro Max Black last year with GVC Panel which looked ok to me.
This year I got the blue 17 Pro Max 512GB and it has a G3H Panel. In my eyes it looks better than last years GVC when I compare them side by side.

I really can`t complain.
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As I mentioned in a previous comment, the GH3 on my 17 PM looks very good, much better than my other 17 PM with GVC.
It is actually very similar to the G9N on my 16 PM.
 
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Base 17 with G9P screen. No off axis colour shift but slightly warmer than the G3H I had on a 16PM to compare.
The G3H also had a slight green tint when tilted towards me.
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I have an GH3 with Green tint, but i guess it is Not that Bad?
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thatJohann said:
It’s def a Samsung and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also a G9N like my 17 Pro. It looks virtually identical in every angle. That said I don’t want to feed my obsession so I don’t want to look up the panel model for my sanity. But yea they’re out there!

Update: curiosity got the best of me and I looked. My Air has a G9Q Samsung panel. Looks as good as the G9N of my 17 Pro, so they're out there!

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If helpful, it's an iPhone Air Light Gold 256GB bought in Apple Grand Central in NYC.
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Congrats on getting the Samsung panel in the Air! It gives me hope to continue playing the lottery panel.
 
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Any chance GSM Arena got a bad screen this time around?
 

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