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

[JayFox]

Every iPhone I’ve bought since the 12 pro max has been dimmer out the box as compared to my existing device.

True, noticed this as well and thought it was a LG screen issue. Now the 17PM LG screen is brighter than the 17P Samsung screen. Definitely keeping this 17PM and returning the 17P. Gotta stop going down this rabbit hole at some point, now I can't stop seeing the pink tints on all my Samsung screens...

 

[KarimLeVallois]

Interesting.

 

[MrGimper]

If you think your substandard faulty dull non-trendy LG GVC screen looks poor, install pixel control and do the coloured stripes. Looks fantastic and bright and colours look amazing. You’re welcome. Trust your eyes, not internet strangers.

 

[Pufster]

Just ordered 2 pro maxes to test further. I’ll keep the best one. I currently have a LG screen with the green tilt. For the rest is quite good. White, uniform and bright but want to see if i can get one with those and no green shift.
One thing I didn’t like is I had to buy from a retailer instead of apple store like my first. Always preferred that for warranty reasons.
Anyway this is my first and last test. I’m not gonna keep doing it.

 

[KarimLeVallois]

But, but green tint!

 

[FunkyTang]

My white Air 1TB has a Samsung G9Q panel. I’m probably returning it for a PM, since I don’t want to keep the Air.

 

[Wxchaser]

IP PM 17 1 TB Silver: GVC LG panel
Looks great no tinting at all.

 

[thadoggfather]

My white Air 1TB has a Samsung G9Q panel. I’m probably returning it for a PM, since I don’t want to keep the Air.

sell it for $3000.

 

[dantay]

Noticed my launch day Air had pretty noticeable black crush during dark scenes in content, did the grey scale test and returned it.

New unit is great, no off-axis green and perfect grey scale.

Has anyone else noticed this issue?

Not seen black crush mentioned on here.

 

[Metrosey]

Received my AppleCare replacement phone today. It’s still GH3 with colour shift, but it is significantly better. Less green and yellow. Is it as good as a GVC, G9N, etc? No idea.

 

[Fred Zed]

Received my AppleCare replacement phone today. It’s still GH3 with colour shift, but it is significantly better. Less green and yellow. Is it as good as a GVC, G9N, etc? No idea.

You definitely want to stay away from GH3 panels 🤣 ( joke )

 

[Nautigar]

My experiences:

16 Pro Max, GH3 panel: perfect screen, uniform, no off-axis tinting
1st 17 Pro Max, GVC panel: screen not great but ok, visibly worse than the 16PM, uniform, slight off-axis tinting
2nd 17 Pro Max, GVC panel: awful screen, bad off-axis tinting, much much worse than the 16PM

My conclusion from these statistically irrelevant samples:
(1) LG screens can be perfect (at least 2024)
(2) huge variations among GVC-panels

In addition to the display problems, the 1st 17PM has a back glass that is not aligned with the aluminium frame, you can easily feel it when holding the phone. So I am going to return both 17PM and keep using my 16PM. Not going to invest almost 2k€ for a phone with a screen that is inferior to the screen of my current 16PM. Maybe I try again in a couple of weeks.

Frustrated. Would have loved the new tele camera, among other things 🥺

 

[FunkyTang]

When I bought my 16 Pro I knew about OLED lottery and different manufacturers but I didn’t want to try to see any tints or shifts of color or display panel code.

I’m getting 17 Pro Max soon and I don’t even want to think about all of that again. I’ve just checked my 16 Pro and of course it has green tint and the bottom of the screen when tilted top part of the phone towards me.

I think most of you haven’t seen really low-end OLED panels of cheap phones.
Here’s for example my old Google Pixel 6a which I used whole year and it has crazy rainbow disco-party 🕺 🪩 going on when looking at any angle.


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