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Hello XDA, long time lurker here. Just got a new GSM Galaxy Nexus from negri electronics. Everything is as it should. First thing to do was to check the screen. Using a dead pixel app, I managed to find just one but felt like I could live with it (plus it has to be 5+ to be considered defective for negri electronics exchange).
The problem is I am noticing what seems to be a slight light leak/fade on the upper right hand of the screen. It's really not noticeable in any other colors except for gray/dark gray colors. Unfortunately, most of ICS apps (market, settings) have a band of gray on top which makes the right corner very apparent. I know that the gnex has pentile technology, and it seems that the rest of the screen does exhibit this sort of leakage/fade throughout but it is most obvious on the upper right. I'm not sure if it's attributable to a defective screen or is common amongst gnex
I'm also a bit worried due to negri's exchange policy and whether or not this would qualify. Tried to take a photo with my DSLR, can't capture it well.
Anyone else experience something like this, or noticed inconsistent quality with the display?
I just got my GN2 today and I noticed pretty fast that there's a constant faint black line that runs across the width of the screen and has one dead pixel on it.
I know I probably cannot fix this without sending the phone away to get repaid. I emailed in to get this seen to. But has anyone had this problem before, and possibly found a solution/cause for it? This is quite annoying, considering it's such an expensive phone.
I don't have any dead pixels and my screen is excelent, but I have this exact same issue that I had with the Note 1. While I'm on my bed about to sleep (what I mean is.. you can only see this when on a dark room, almost pitch black) and I have a grey background I can see black lines on the screen, on my Note 1 they looked like stains, like little drops and on my Note 2 they are lines , 2 on the left corners (bottom and top). They never bottered me because you can't see them under normal use and they don't even seem to affect the screen in any way, but when I found my Note 2 had it too, I don't know, felt a bit dissapointed since it is such a great -and expensive- piece of work. I don't care about it but I though I was the only one. Clearly I'm not. But like I said it doesn't affect my screen in any possible way and you can't see it 99& of the time so I don't care =)
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I don't have any dead pixels and my screen is excelent, but I have this exact same issue that I had with the Note 1. While I'm on my bed about to sleep (what I mean is.. you can only see this when on a dark room, almost pitch black) and I have a grey background I can see black lines on the screen, on my Note 1 they looked like stains, like little drops and on my Note 2 they are lines , 2 on the left corners (bottom and top). They never bottered me because you can't see them under normal use and they don't even seem to affect the screen in any way, but when I found my Note 2 had it too, I don't know, felt a bit dissapointed since it is such a great -and expensive- piece of work. I don't care about it but I though I was the only one. Clearly I'm not. But like I said it doesn't affect my screen in any possible way and you can't see it 99& of the time so I don't care =)
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Yeah I seen a lot of people complaining about that on the original Note. The line doesn't cause any screen issues, it just really irritates me because now that I've seen it, I can't unsee it. That, and a dead pixel is just poor show! Once I return this I'm going to buy the UK LTE version, if possible. The UK LTE situation is terrible right now, though.
If I watch "full screen" video in landscape mode with the top of the screen on the left, I see a thin, faint vertical line very close to the left edge of the screen. Right side (bottom of screen in portrait mode) has no line. The line is a little lighter in brightness and causes video passing over it to be slightly distorted. I went to best buy, where I bought it and both display nexus 7's seemed to have the same line, to a slight lesser extent. Do you see the line on yours? It's maybe 1mm wide and about 3mm out from the left edge. Again, in landscape mode with top of screen on left.
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If I watch "full screen" video in landscape mode with the top of the screen on the left, I see a thin, faint vertical line very close to the left edge of the screen. Right side (bottom of screen in portrait mode) has no line. The line is a little lighter in brightness and causes video passing over it to be slightly distorted. I went to best buy, where I bought it and both display nexus 7's seemed to have the same line, to a slight lesser extent. Do you see the line on yours? It's maybe 1mm wide and about 3mm out from the left edge. Again, in landscape mode with top of screen on left.
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I dont have anything like that :/
I just bought one of these as a birthday gift for my, once I opened and tested tablet, I immediately noticed purple fringing everywhere specially on white letters. Actually it is weird because:
1. On normal view, that is the Hardware button on the bottom, the purple fringe is noticable at the top of every letter, and "GREEN" fringing at the bottom of every letter.
2. When i rotate the tablet 180 degrees, (screen autorotation is on) that is the Home button now is at the top, I nptice the purple fringing is at the bottom, and the green fringing is at the top.
Anyone also noticed this on their Tab S 10.5? I am now regretting buying this.
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I forgot to mention, with normal web browsing, there is no problem. The problem can only be seen when looking at the icons and their description, and also when you go to settings, it can be seen on the letters there.
I have just been to my local walmart and tested their machines there. Their unit has the same purple fringe on top of icons, and green fringe at the bottom of icons. My guess is my eyes are faulty, or my eyes are well trained to look at Samsung screens and look for faults. Super Amoleds are really not yet perfect.
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I just bought one of these as a birthday gift for my, once I opened and tested tablet, I immediately noticed purple fringing everywhere specially on white letters. Actually it is weird because:
1. On normal view, that is the Hardware button on the bottom, the purple fringe is noticable at the top of every letter, and "GREEN" fringing at the bottom of every letter.
2. When i rotate the tablet 180 degrees, (screen autorotation is on) that is the Home button now is at the top, I nptice the purple fringing is at the bottom, and the green fringing is at the top.
Anyone also noticed this on their Tab S 10.5? I am now regretting buying this.
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I have had nothing short of spectacular graphics/images on my 10.5" Tab S and can't see even a hint of fringing. I wonder if anybody else has had this problem. Would it be possible to exchange your tablet, because that doesn't sound normal to me? I've seen 3 or 4 10.5" Tab S' s and none of them displayed the fringing your experiencing. Good luck!
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I just bought one of these as a birthday gift for my, once I opened and tested tablet, I immediately noticed purple fringing everywhere specially on white letters. Actually it is weird because:
1. On normal view, that is the Hardware button on the bottom, the purple fringe is noticable at the top of every letter, and "GREEN" fringing at the bottom of every letter.
2. When i rotate the tablet 180 degrees, (screen autorotation is on) that is the Home button now is at the top, I nptice the purple fringing is at the bottom, and the green fringing is at the top.
Anyone also noticed this on their Tab S 10.5? I am now regretting buying this.
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Your tablet is defective. Return it.
I have just been to my local walmart and tried their machines there, they have the same fault (or should I say "characteristic) as my Tab S...
I have updated the op...
I am still waiting for other people for their feedback before I return mine to amazon. Problem is, this is a birthday gift, and it wouldn't came on time if I return it and have it replaced. My walmart only has the black one.
No need to regret a purchase just because you happen to aquire a defective unit. If the store units are exhibiting the same characteristics then they have a bad batch. My screens good apart from a very slight yellow cast when viewed head on, but it doesn't really bother me, besides all stock is sold out where I live and I couldn't get a quick replacement anyway (I'm off on holiday next week and need a tab!)
xdm9mm said:
I just bought one of these as a birthday gift for my, once I opened and tested tablet, I immediately noticed purple fringing everywhere specially on white letters. Actually it is weird because:
1. On normal view, that is the Hardware button on the bottom, the purple fringe is noticable at the top of every letter, and "GREEN" fringing at the bottom of every letter.
2. When i rotate the tablet 180 degrees, (screen autorotation is on) that is the Home button now is at the top, I nptice the purple fringing is at the bottom, and the green fringing is at the top.
Anyone also noticed this on their Tab S 10.5? I am now regretting buying this.
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I forgot to mention, with normal web browsing, there is no problem. The problem can only be seen when looking at the icons and their description, and also when you go to settings, it can be seen on the letters there.
I have just been to my local walmart and tested their machines there. Their unit has the same purple fringe on top of icons, and green fringe at the bottom of icons. My guess is my eyes are faulty, or my eyes are well trained to look at Samsung screens and look for faults. Super Amoleds are really not yet perfect.
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The black one? Tab S does not come in black.
Colors on a properly functioning Tab S should be perfect. Whites white (with no yellow tinge) and blacks black (with no mura effect). It has been well documented that Samsung let some mad cows out of the barn on this one. If your screen is demonstrating any of these defects return it (the same store likely has more defective units from same run).
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The black one? Tab S does not come in black.
Colors on a properly functioning Tab S should be perfect. Whites white (with no yellow tinge) and blacks black (with no mura effect). It has been well documented that Samsung let some mad cows out of the barn on this one. If your screen is demonstrating any of these defects return it (the same store likely has more defective units from same run).
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I guess you already know what i mean when i said black... I meant titanium bronze.
Anyway i have already packed the tablet and will be returning it.
I don't know the extent of the fringing problem on your tablet but I can add this to the conversation. There is a slight tint to the screen depending on which way you tilt your device. Its an AMOLED display so its inherent.
xdm9mm said:
I just bought one of these as a birthday gift for my, once I opened and tested tablet, I immediately noticed purple fringing everywhere specially on white letters. Actually it is weird because:
1. On normal view, that is the Hardware button on the bottom, the purple fringe is noticable at the top of every letter, and "GREEN" fringing at the bottom of every letter.
2. When i rotate the tablet 180 degrees, (screen autorotation is on) that is the Home button now is at the top, I nptice the purple fringing is at the bottom, and the green fringing is at the top.
Anyone also noticed this on their Tab S 10.5? I am now regretting buying this.
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I forgot to mention, with normal web browsing, there is no problem. The problem can only be seen when looking at the icons and their description, and also when you go to settings, it can be seen on the letters there.
I have just been to my local walmart and tested their machines there. Their unit has the same purple fringe on top of icons, and green fringe at the bottom of icons. My guess is my eyes are faulty, or my eyes are well trained to look at Samsung screens and look for faults. Super Amoleds are really not yet perfect.
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enaybee said:
I don't know the extent of the fringing problem on your tablet but I can add this to the conversation. There is a slight tint to the screen depending on which way you tilt your device. Its an AMOLED display so its inherent.
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It should be white viewed directly and slightly pink at am angle.
xdm9mm said:
I just bought one of these as a birthday gift for my, once I opened and tested tablet, I immediately noticed purple fringing everywhere specially on white letters. Actually it is weird because:
1. On normal view, that is the Hardware button on the bottom, the purple fringe is noticable at the top of every letter, and "GREEN" fringing at the bottom of every letter.
2. When i rotate the tablet 180 degrees, (screen autorotation is on) that is the Home button now is at the top, I nptice the purple fringing is at the bottom, and the green fringing is at the top.
Anyone also noticed this on their Tab S 10.5? I am now regretting buying this.
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I forgot to mention, with normal web browsing, there is no problem. The problem can only be seen when looking at the icons and their description, and also when you go to settings, it can be seen on the letters there.
I have just been to my local walmart and tested their machines there. Their unit has the same purple fringe on top of icons, and green fringe at the bottom of icons. My guess is my eyes are faulty, or my eyes are well trained to look at Samsung screens and look for faults. Super Amoleds are really not yet perfect.
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You seem to be extremely sensitive. Do you even notice it from a distance, or do you have to get really close to the screen to notice it ?
It could be related to the screen's subpixels layout, here it what it looks like when zoomed it: http://cdn.gsmarena.com/vv/reviewsimg/samsung-galaxy-tab-s-105/samsung-galaxy-tab-s-105.jpg
You may want to have a look at it with a magnifiying glass, I wouldn't be surprise that this layout is causing your issue.
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mitchellvii said:
The black one? Tab S does not come in black.
Colors on a properly functioning Tab S should be perfect. Whites white (with no yellow tinge) and blacks black (with no mura effect). It has been well documented that Samsung let some mad cows out of the barn on this one. If your screen is demonstrating any of these defects return it (the same store likely has more defective units from same run).
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I'm not sure about tab S 10.5, but 8.4 is affected by Mura effect. Not on black though, but only on extremely dark colors.
"It should be white viewed directly and slightly pink at am angle."
Amusing, on 8.4 the tint is green when viewed at an angle, not pink. Same goes for my Galaxy S2. It looks like some greenish transparent liquid was painted on the pannel. I always wondered what it could be, as it seems to be specific to Amoled.
Bump: Just purchased a Samsung Tab S2 and have a similar purple fringing issue and slight text aliasing. Mostly occurs with black text on white background.
I took a few macro photos that display the issue. As I just registered to discuss this issue I am not allowed to embed photos from imgur, to view remove the space between imgur and .com.
White Text on Black Background from Samsung Tab S2 9.7
i.imgur .com/jDd5H2C.jpg
Black Text on White Background from Samsung Tab S2 9.7
i.imgur .com/L1tsK5V.jpg
LG G4 LCD - for comparison
i.imgur .com/3k6ne8V.jpg
i think it would be nice if we have all spotted bugs in one place...if you spot some bugs write about it here...
mine as follows...
1. sometimes screen won't lit up when someone is calling, or when call is ended screen is still dark and you can't touch screen to end call or whatever...you have to press power button...auto brightness is slow to went up as well if i am outside and someone is calling me while sun is bright and drop directly on the screen....
2. wifi is working wonky...many times a day i have exclamation mark near wifi sign and no internet over wifi...signal strength is perfect but internet is lost over wifi...
A70's display turns dark pixels off instead of dimming them, as if they were completely black. Which leads to difficulty and inability to see dark things properly+distortion of the displayed thing because a lot of pixels are turned off.
http://imgur.com/a/w9tLNAJ
I know it's not a bug, but it is still a pain, "raising the volume above a certain level..." warning. Even when I'm playing thru a bluetooth speaker.
SniperLolz said:
A70's display turns dark pixels off instead of dimming them, as if they were completely black. Which leads to difficulty and inability to see dark things properly+distortion of the displayed thing because a lot of pixels are turned off.
http://imgur.com/a/w9tLNAJ
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This is a lock screen bug introduced somewhere around the time AF5 was released. It doesn't apply to anything but the lockscreen.
i have problems with auto rotate and answering calls...if phone is in landscape mode and i bring it up to answer call screen is rotating in portrait mode and froze?? whole screen moved to the right so i can see only green phone icon but can't answer call because screen becomes unresponsive? i have some inconvenient situations with some very important calls where people thinks how i don't want to answer calls...
try it for yourself, take phone in landscape mode and call yourself from some other phone and see what happens...
I wasn't able to replicate that bug. During the incoming call, screen returned to portrait mode but I was able to answer or decline the call.
Device: SM-A705FN/DS with build number A705FNXXU3ASG6.
mine stuck many times since i have the phone...it looks weird, i can see half the screen with green icon as the only visible icon but screen becomes unresponsive...also, phone didn't react to side buttons...
Missed call notification is not themed.
Any solution for this ?
Wifi completely drops out like every 30 minutes. Considering returning this phone because it's so bad.
Almost all of the above problems I have too. And + another I notice the screen becomes on and unlocked too in my pocket, until I disabled double click activate screen.. And fingerprint is worst quality as well as I used to in Mi 9.
always on display bug and many bugs more
samsung phones are very bad quality in terms of software. many many bugs.
many illogical behaviors, samsung ui is worst, samsung bixby virtual assistant is worst.
phones are full of bloatware.
even the most basic functions are full of bugs.
1- i store my contacts in google account, in google contacts. i have about 2 thousand contacts, but 1800 of them are hidden. under "my contacts" there are about 200 contacts. before i used iphone, it syncs with only the "my contacts" group, it does not sync the hidden contacts.
2- i bought a samsung a70 recently, added my google account. hoping that everything will work fine. because many years passed and samsung must have had a better experience with google services.
however under contacts i see all my 2000 contacts, hidden contacts, phone contacts and sim contacts.
and there is no way to filter them out.
3- always on display has problems. it just does not work.
4- underscreen fingerprint reader is a horror. it does not read frequently.
they made a very bright green animation to read the fingerprints. when you are in a dim environment or at night, it is like a green laser light very very bright. its just so annoying very bright green laser light.
when i watched the earlier versions of underscreen fingerprint reader, it had a soft ripple animation.
but after many complaints that the fingerprint is not reading accurately, they thought that, lighting the finger with bright green color helps to read fingerprint.
as a conclusion dont bother the samsung phones, they are very very bad quality in terms of software.
full of bugs and bloatware.
even an 4 year old iphone se, with IOS 13.1 is much much superior to samsungs latest phones...
The fingerprint sensor has massively improved with recent firmware. I don't have any issue with its speed now, so check if there's an update available for your device.
James.Miller said:
The fingerprint sensor has massively improved with recent firmware. I don't have any issue with its speed now, so check if there's an update available for your device.
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do you really think that i did not check the updates?
all firmware, playstore and samsung store updates are installed.
the samsung phones are just a mess. full of bugs and bloatware. without any support.
compared to the quality of hardware, software support and services with iphones, samsungs should have been sold 1/10 th price of an according iphone.
i will take some videos of all the bugs i find and put on youtube.
on screen fingerprint reader is a disaster.
at night, or on dimmed screen, why the screen should pop up the most vivid laser like green in order to read a fingerprint, which is a 10 year old technology.
the screen is so bright green that, all the room is green one of a sudden. it hurts my eyes.
and there is no way to change it.
my ten year old first gen iphone 5s can read fingerprints ten times accurate and faster and 1000 times quiter than the samsung a70.
"do you really think that i did not check the updates?
all firmware, playstore and samsung store updates are installed."
Then you've not had the update, because it IS that much better.
I'm not going to address the iPhone comparisons, except to say we dont share the same views.
As for the green light on the FPR, yes it is to read the finger prints better. That isn't a Samsung problem, it's an inherant problem with optical readers. They aren't too hot in direct sunlight either. But then what else would you expect from new first gen in screen optical readers? You know what, though? You dont have to use the fpr at night, you can still punch your pin code in instead....
James.Miller said:
"do you really think that i did not check the updates?
all firmware, playstore and samsung store updates are installed."
Then you've not had the update, because it IS that much better.
I'm not going to address the iPhone comparisons, except to say we dont share the same views. As for the green light on the FPR, yes it is to read the finger prints better. You know you dont have to use the fpr at night, you can still punch your pin code in instead....
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why i have to see the bright laser green in order to read just a fingerprint?
why i have to punch in pincode if i already paid for a fingerprint reader?
dont get me wrong, my only point is to make people understand that samsungs products are very low quality. in design and features.
even it can not correctly sync with google contacts.
just a disaster software.
i mean how many years ago was google contacts was published??? maybe 12 years ago???
and still the samsung ui can not sync correctly with google contacts...
xprzs said:
why i have to see the bright laser green in order to read just a fingerprint?
why i have to punch in pincode if i already paid for a fingerprint reader?
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Because its an optical reader and just like us humans it doesn't see very well in the dark. That is not a Samsung issue, its a draw back of optical technology. Look at the one plus 6Ts optical sensor, they are the same. If you want an fpr that works in the dark you should have paid more and bought a phone with an ultrasonic sensor. Spend budget money and you'll get a budget phone. You need to understand that budget phones have to cut corners somewhere.
dont get me wrong, my only point is to make people understand that samsungs products are very low quality. in design and features.
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Completely disagree.
even it can not correctly sync with google contacts.
just a disaster software.
i mean how many years ago was google contacts was published??? maybe 12 years ago???
and still the samsung ui can not sync correctly with google contacts...
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Neither do pixel phones. Again, not a Samsung issue, its a Google sync issue. I'm guessing iPhone handle it differently.
As for one UI being the worst, it's the only android UI designed for tall displays. It's easily the best.
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Because its an optical reader and just like us humans it doesn't see very well in the dark. That is not a Samsung issue, its a draw back of optical technology. Look at the one plus 6Ts optical sensor, they are the same. If you want an fpr that works in the dark you should have paid more and bought a phone with an ultrasonic sensor. Spend budget money and you'll get a budget phone. You need to understand that budget phones have to cut corners somewhere.
Completely disagree.
Neither do pixel phones. Again, not a Samsung issue, its a Google sync issue. I'm guessing iPhone handle it differently.
As for one UI being the worst, it's the only android UI designed for tall displays. It's easily the best.
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i dont have a pixel phone . i dont have any clue with google contacts problem in pixel phones.
anyways i really regret that i bought the A70
very low quality, in terms of hardware, software, and support
full of bugs
full of bloatware
i am a comp geek and engineer.
but i dont want to waste my time searching for tweaks and solutions for nonsense problems and illogical behaviours of the phone.
samsung is just good at one thing
marketing lies .
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i dont have a pixel phone . i dont have any clue with google contacts problem in pixel phones.
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The point was, google's own phones sync contacts in the same way. ALL android phones do. don't blame Samsung for that.
anyways i really regret that i bought the A70
very low quality, in terms of hardware, software, and support
full of bugs
full of bloatware
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No lol, it isn't. I don't know why you are having issues with the AOD but you are the first person I've seen to have such issues.
i am a comp geek and engineer.
but i dont want to waste my time searching for tweaks and solutions for nonsense problems and illogical behaviours of the phone.
samsung is just good at one thing
marketing lies .
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Should have bought an iPhone, but you didn't - you bought a budget android phone instead. Jeez.
a70 always on display bugs
Always On Display feature, Display Mode -> Tap to show is not working correctly. it has a bug on Samsung A70.
when tapped on screen, it should have showed the clock for 10 seconds. I tried on A30, it is working as expected.
but on A70 instead it shows the clock 2 seconds, turns the screen off, and at the end of the 10th second, just blinks the clock for the last time.
such a basic bug, i really wonder, are there any test engineers working at Samsung??? such a fake company.
and this bug was there from the start,
and is continued with the September 1 update also...
A70 can not detect touches at the very edges
another problem/poor quality of the A70,
A70 can not detect finger touches at the very edge of the screen.
you can test yourself by the program PhDoctor. this program has a "Touch" section, which enables to test the touch screen quality.
A70 can only detect touches, almost 2mm inside the edges of the screen.
but for example samsung A30 can detect touches until the very edge of the screen, almost 0 mm.
iphones can also detect touches until the very edge of the screen...
samsung ?