Mobile phone display mega shootout: The full picture

29 November 2010
There are so many of them that it’s pretty hard to make up your mind. It all boils down to LCD vs. LED although this simple fact is easy to overlook. You can go ahead and blame it all on marketing but that’s one thing that just can’t be black or...

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  • Just I
  • sEG
  • 01 Dec 2010

I do not care with LCD, LED, AMOLED or whatever its name. All are very good enough, and the most important for me is just the screen is not easily broken....

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    • Sails
    • ntg
    • 01 Dec 2010

    Anonymous, 01 Dec 2010how do pentile cheat? care for a explanationI'm not an expert, but since I couldn't find any good article, I'll do my best. Someone correct me if I make errors.

    Normally one pixel in a display consists of red, green and blue subpixel (RGB). RGBG PenTile, that is used on Galaxy S, Wave etc. consists of (as the name implies) RGBG matrix.

    What this means is that for each pixel there is green subpixel and either red OR green subpixel. That basically means that 800x480 display does have 800x480 green resolution, but only 400x480 red and 400x480 blue resolution.

    If you do the math, on subpixel level, the difference to the 640x360 CBD on C6-01 isn't all that great. Also the sppi (subpixels per inch ;) is far greater on C6-01.

    To be fair, there is a scientific reason for the RGBG matrix, since human eye is more receptive to green color. However to me at least, this seems quite noticable.

    Was that good enough?

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      • Anonymous
      • Kg%
      • 01 Dec 2010

      phones fan, 01 Dec 2010may be because his eyes can magnify images 25 times. LOLd :D

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        • phones fan
        • fwM
        • 01 Dec 2010

        Anonymous, 01 Dec 2010how do pentile cheat? care for a explanationmay be because his eyes can magnify images 25 times.

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          • Anonymous
          • Kg%
          • 01 Dec 2010

          Sails, 01 Dec 2010Agreed. CBD is the best. It doesn't have the PenTile cheat ... morehow do pentile cheat? care for a explanation

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            • Maurice
            • nDy
            • 01 Dec 2010

            Super AMOLEDs have over-satured colors with a reason, because the oleds colors will slowly fade with time (especially blue). The owners of a SAMOLED phone(Galaxy S, Wave) noticed that after 4-5 months of usage, some screen burn-ins appeared on the blue color.

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              • Anonymous
              • t75
              • 01 Dec 2010

              Nokia pawns all. See for yourself.

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                • Anonymous
                • MrV
                • 01 Dec 2010

                C6-01 dpi is calculated wrong. As the screen size is smaller than the N8's and the resolution stays the same, it can't have the same dpi.

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                  • bling bling
                  • 2Tw
                  • 01 Dec 2010

                  nokia FTW!!!!!

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                    • Sails
                    • nmU
                    • 01 Dec 2010

                    Anonymous, 01 Dec 2010Clear Black Display ftw!Agreed. CBD is the best. It doesn't have the PenTile cheat that Samoled uses. I hope N9 will be CBD.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • Uij
                      • 01 Dec 2010

                      Mega article GSMarena!

                      nice work guys!

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                        • Anonymous
                        • niJ
                        • 01 Dec 2010

                        Clear Black Display ftw!

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                          • hong_gildong.kr
                          • wHr
                          • 01 Dec 2010

                          people see what they expect to see.
                          people who own iPhones would say their screen is the best..
                          people who have the N8 and other Nokia phones would claim that nothing beats theirs..
                          people who own Samsung phones, especially the ones with Super AMOLED, would undoubtedly quote GSM Arena left and right for praises about this technology..
                          LG, SE, HTC owners would of course see something special in their precious phones..
                          you see, at the end of the day, it's all about US users who decide which phones are best for us.. if we truly believe that what we have satisfies what we need, then there's no use bashing other people's phones into what would then become an endless (and pointless) battle towards the "best mobile phone display" in the world..

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                            • Anonymous
                            • Kg%
                            • 01 Dec 2010

                            [deleted post]thank you

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 4TM
                              • 01 Dec 2010

                              [deleted post]Well comparing how iphone users post comments and how you construct yours, iphone users are definitely the smarter ones :)

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                                • rao sharafat ali
                                • uW5
                                • 01 Dec 2010

                                i do,nt agree wid gsmrena cz in actual snayreo xperia 10 is da best..in picture quality as wel as in color reproduction..i request sony make change in lcd

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • FJT
                                  • 01 Dec 2010

                                  Anonymous, 01 Dec 2010From a photography point of view yes, u look at the picutur... moreI totally agree with you. Ip4 is simply the best.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • s5s
                                    • 01 Dec 2010

                                    Anonymous, 30 Nov 2010Oh and noobs, the HD RECORDING is the competition, not the ... moreHere's a clue.... U think phone manufacturers are going sport 1080p on a what 480x 800p res ?
                                    Wake up bro

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                                      • HD engr
                                      • jWL
                                      • 01 Dec 2010

                                      If i4 had the SAMOLED and a 4" screen then all the crazy fanboys would be laughing at others BUT..uhm hmm..

                                      TOO BAD Samsung would and will NOT let that happen again so dream on fanboys, lol

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • wa7
                                        • 01 Dec 2010

                                        Anonymous, 30 Nov 2010"....but coming from a photographic background..."... moreFrom a photography point of view yes, u look at the picuture as a whole or as is... Remember we r talking about mini computer screens here, where pinch and zoom is common where multiple windows are often required, where multimedia is huge on a number of levels... And we are also talking about 3.5- 4 inch screens where resolution is massive and probably the biggest factor in terms of image quality.
                                        I've owned over ten high end smartphones over the last 18'mths or so from Nokia to se to samsung to lg, moto and finally apple. People can call me a fanboy or whatever fact is I will sell my ip4 in a second when I see a better phone.. I've sold all but 2 my ip4 and my htc desire, my house mate owns the galaxy s and in all honesty IMO after using the ip4 the other screens just don't cut it for me anymore... As good as the super amoled is with it's super contrast and rich colors its still just seems like a really good computer screen. Ip4 is so chrisp and clear it's almost like having tangible objects infront of u.
                                        I also think if u went out and showed a whole bunch of people am computer screen, one with slightly better contract , one with a higher resolution in general most would opt for the latter