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Let's talk about the screen

Lukalumen — Thu, 30 May 2019 18:36:50 GMT

From day 1 I thought going 21:9 was a great move on so many levels, but after using it today it's even better than I thought...

19.5:9 screens are kind of half way between being useful as taller screens and not conforming to standards. If you're not going to do 16:9 and use the most established ratio in any industry, now I feel like 21:9 is the way to go.

On the XZ3 I though split screen was a cute thing, that sometimes can be useful, but most of the time it just wasn't great. There was always some screen real estate missing when watching a YouTube video and messaging, but with this screen omg, it's perfect.

It fits a YouTube video in 16:9, messages and the keyboard comfortably on the same screen...

Websites or any lists or scrolling through the UI are so much better and easier...

And the colours... Wow. Perfect. The first screen that I really consider to be perfect. The XZ3 had arguably the best screen on the market, but looking at them side by side, it was still a bit too cold looking in Standard mode. This thing is spot on.

I'll look into the black clipping that someone mentioned on the forum though and will get back with findings.

Re: Let's talk about the screen

Lord_viridis — Fri, 31 May 2019 07:37:37 GMT

I've found black clipping to be very minimal, much less so than other oled screens, banding also is there with low brightness gradations, but is very much less than others.

It's a good display, really good

Re: Let's talk about the screen

Lukalumen — Fri, 31 May 2019 08:55:07 GMT

Probably the best display that Samsung ever made

They would never let Sony use this if they thought of them as serious competition lol

Screens were always number one thing when I look at phones and I'm so happy to look at this flawless thing

I could never get something with a notch or a hole in it, way too OCD for that nonsense. They could be giving me an S10 for free and I would never consider using it. What happened to the good old times when you'd return the phone for having dead pixels lol

I checked the black clipping,it's on par with the XZ3, if not better and colours are more natural at low brightness. It's just recent content that has been pushing into the HDR luma in shadows and highlights. I don't like it, but it's here to stay...

Re: Let's talk about the screen

Lord_viridis — Fri, 31 May 2019 08:56:31 GMT

It's not a Samsung display.

Samsung produce Amoled displays, this is P-oled.

Re: Let's talk about the screen

Lukalumen — Fri, 31 May 2019 09:01:12 GMT

Hm... I saw in a couple of places Samsung displays mentioned, and no indication of anyone else...

Who made the display then? LG?

Re: Let's talk about the screen

Lord_viridis — Fri, 31 May 2019 09:08:32 GMT

Not a clue, but I know it's P-oled so therefore not Samsung (like many places reporting)

Whoever it is have done well, very, very well.

Re: Let's talk about the screen

James-1990 — Fri, 31 May 2019 23:40:18 GMT

Better than my bravia TV. Probably Sony or jdi I've heard 2 of the cameras are Samsung

Re: Let's talk about the screen

Lukalumen — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 13:02:28 GMT

For now all the high end oled displays that Sony uses were LG, would be great if JDI managed to achieve this.

Re: Let's talk about the screen

5pencey — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 16:30:56 GMT

Do we know if this runs at 4K at all times? Like on menu, app drawer etc?

Re: Let's talk about the screen

ds2mph — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 20:14:24 GMT

@Viridis wrote:
Not a clue, but I know it's P-oled so therefore not Samsung (like many places reporting)
Whoever it is have done well, very, very well.

It's a Samsung AMOLED

https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4378494446276227#comment

Re: Let's talk about the screen

Lord_viridis — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 21:58:31 GMT

Diamond pentile does not mean it's Samsung, whatever weibo say.

@ds2mph wrote:
@Viridis wrote:
Not a clue, but I know it's P-oled so therefore not Samsung (like many places reporting)
Whoever it is have done well, very, very well.
It's Samsung AMOLED
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4378494446276227#comment

Re: Let's talk about the screen

azzido — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 06:54:19 GMT

Isolating screen out of other X1 issues I hope sony will fix the below with upcoming software repair:

1. Low brightness
2. Lack of vivid mode

Re: Let's talk about the screen

Lukalumen — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 09:52:58 GMT

I really don't see any issues with it...

Brightness is not that low, it's just slightly lower than the XZ3, which was one of the brightest screens, brighter than the S9 and iPhone XS when I compared them live...

And also it's probably mostly just percieved brighness because the colours are now perfectly balanced and the XZ3 still was on a bit of a cold side in Standard mode, which is more of a trick to make the whites appear brighter.

From that point, I will not miss the unnatural super vivid mode because I never used it anyway, but maybe they should add it back for people who are used to it.

Re: Let's talk about the screen

ds2mph — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 10:56:32 GMT

@Viridis wrote:
Diamond pentile does not mean it's Samsung, whatever weibo say.
@ds2mph wrote:
@Viridis wrote:
Not a clue, but I know it's P-oled so therefore not Samsung (like many places reporting)
Whoever it is have done well, very, very well.
It's Samsung AMOLED
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4378494446276227#comment

AIDA64 is such an idiot app This is the pixel array of Pixel 2 XL (LG P-OLED)

Below is XZ3 (LG P-OLED)

And below is pixel array of Xperia 1 (Samsung AMOLED)

Below is Galaxy S9 (Samsung AMOLED)dd

Re: Let's talk about the screen

Lord_viridis — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 20:24:13 GMT

You realise that if you rotate the images shown for xz3 and Xperia 1 they match yeah