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I have to say the Sprint Galaxy SII has one of the best screens I have ever seen on a smartphone, especially when used outside. Most phones outside are near impossible to see in the daytime, but the Galaxy SII is actually usable and very sharp. And that is with the auto brightness off, keeping it at like 1/3rd it still easy to see. But I am talking mid day in Winter, not high noon on a July clear sunny day, all phones suck with that light.
Had the EVO 4G before this, and it is night and day a major leap forward in screen technology, even my Brother who loves his iPhone4, says he is very impressed with the vibrant colors, and deep blacks, and how clear the Galaxy SII looks, he admitted it is better than his "retina" display. My other Brother still has the EVO 4G, and when put next to each other on the desk, the phones don't seem like only a year apart in tech, they look like they 5 yrs different almost. The EVO 4G looks extremely dated next to the Epic 4G Touch.
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I wish the resolution was higher, at least qhd 960 x 540. text on webpages at fully zoomed out is unreadable. also, at off angle (30 degrees off center), there's a progressively bluer tinge to whites and other lighter colors where as a comparison, dead center, there is a noticeably warmer color of white. dunno if anyone noticed but at the lowest brightness with screen filter app, there's a hatch pattern to the whites & greys (only noticed because i use the phone at night with the lights off).
besides that, the display is awesome.
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I wish the resolution was higher, at least qhd 960 x 540. text on webpages at fully zoomed out is unreadable. also, at off angle (30 degrees off center), there's a progressively bluer tinge to whites and other lighter colors where as a comparison, dead center, there is a noticeably warmer color of white. dunno if anyone noticed but at the lowest brightness with screen filter app, there's a hatch pattern to the whites & greys (only noticed because i use the phone at night with the lights off).
besides that, the display is awesome.
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I think you have a defective display dude, mine is perfect and trust me I'm picky as ****. Returned my first one cause it had some vertical gradient gray lines on darker backgrounds, exactly like you described, you could see them the best on low backlight. Also had some blue tinting going on whites as well. The replacement I got is beautiful.
(I also come from the vibrant)
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The screen resolution can be forgiven for all the other positives.
Pretty much everyone I know has commented on the screen and admitted that it's better than their own. Two iphone users that I know drool over it and could give a crap about retina display compared to super amoled + I even pointed out how it's more pixelated than retina display, and they would take the trade off.
Compared it to a coworkers droid razr, and while the razr's screen has a better resolution, it's behind in all other aspects. The sgsii screen just looks so much more vibrant.
super amoled is sexy indeed.
i love this screen, the thick glass gives it depth too. beautiful
Im coming from an EVO 4G, and I must admit, this screen is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Especially the blacks.
sick of people and this resolution crap, I had the qHD screen on the Evo3D and i dont miss it one bit compared to this thing!! and trust me im picky as hell also
The one big downside.... Whites
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I think you have a defective display dude, mine is perfect and trust me I'm picky as ****. Returned my first one cause it had some vertical gradient gray lines on darker backgrounds, exactly like you described, you could see them the best on low backlight. Also had some blue tinting going on whites as well. The replacement I got is beautiful.
(I also come from the vibrant)
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thanks for the suggestion, I will go check it out at the sprint store to see if other units have the same issue. just to clarify, your current phone doesn't get a blue tint to the whites as your tilt the phone?
My unit also has a very noticeable blue-to-yellowish hue to it (noticeable on whites especially) but I didn't think anything of it until now.
Hold it at one angle, pure white.
Hold it -+5 degrees, blue tint.
Hold it -+5 degrees the other direction, slightly yellow.
It doesn't really bother me that much seeing as the theme-ing I've done relies heavily on the use of blacks (beautiful, almost-zero power-consuming blacks).
I recently discovered this on a white lumia 900 and wonder if this is normal or if I need to get my phone exchanged.
The camera always gives a slightly discolored halo in the middle of a picture taken without a flash. I took a picture of a blank white wall and the effect can be seen clearly in the piture. (I adjusted the brightness a bit) (since i cant post links)
imgur.com/caiBu
Also, it doesn't take really good pictures in the dark. One weird thing that I saw is in this picture below. I took a picture with the phone in complete darkness and then opened the picture on the phone. The screen looks black but then when you pinch-to-zoom and increase the picture size, all sorts of weird dots and stuff appear and also can be seen if you auto-correct the final image using any picture software. I clicked the picture of the phone screen in a dark room.
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I got same problem
Vignetting, digital noise, and the laws of physics
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I recently discovered this on a white lumia 900 and wonder if this is normal or if I need to get my phone exchanged.
The camera always gives a slightly discolored halo in the middle of a picture taken without a flash. I took a picture of a blank white wall and the effect can be seen clearly in the piture. (I adjusted the brightness a bit) (since i cant post links)
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Lulz. Welcome to the world of photography. You have discovered two things that have been discussed in photography for well over a century vignetting and noise/grain.
I have a $300 NONZOOM lens that if used on a $3000 camera will show vignetting if you shoot it wide open (f/1.4). Not sure why anyone would think the tiny lens on a mass produced phone handed out for free would be immune to that.
A guy bought a DSLR for $6,000 new and put a $1,500 lens on it. This is what he found...
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Also, it doesn't take really good pictures in the dark. One weird thing that I saw is in this picture below. I took a picture with the phone in complete darkness and then opened the picture on the phone. The screen looks black but then when you pinch-to-zoom and increase the picture size, all sorts of weird dots and stuff appear and also can be seen if you auto-correct the final image using any picture software. I clicked the picture of the phone screen in a dark room.
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The Lumia 900 is an awesome phone but it has to obey the laws of physics. You can't cram eight megapixels into a space the fraction of the size of a fingernail and expect to get noise free images. That's why miniaturization and the megapixel race are an anathema to good photography. I'll put it to you this way one of the greatest photographers ever prefered to shoot his work with an 8x10 camera. That's right a camera with film that measured 8x10 per a frame. Now you are shooting in terrible lighting conditions with a sensor that is a fraction of the size of your fingernail. My question is what did you expect?
Here's a little primer on sensor sizes...
For professional photography Canon APS-C is really the minimum. Sigma Fovean can be used but it is a very unique technology. Four thirds cameras take some decent pictures as well but that is about the limit. FYI see that tiny green box on the left? The sensor you are critiquing is a fraction of the size of that. Also when I really want to take I nice shot I use a medium format FILM camera. It's negative is even bigger than the medium format sensor on that chart.
Arizona Highways is considered to be at the pinnacle of photographic magazines. It usually only uses images taken with FILM cameras like this...
So bottom line is that vignetting and digital noise are present to some degree in EVERY camera phone. Are they at an unacceptable level in your particular unit? I don't know. I would have to know a lot more about your testing methodology and see similar sample pics taken under the exact same conditions by a variety of phones. Your phone may be defective or you may just be one of those special people that really pays attention to the quality of photographs. Some people for whatever reason are just really tuned in to what looks good and what looks bad. I love showing people like that my pictures. They can actually appreciate them or at least tell me what looks bad.
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Yeah so do people with three thousand dollar cameras. It's all a matter of degree.
Unfortunately, the camera on this phone sucks. I have one and it takes horrible pictures 90% of the time. 10% of the time you will be amazed at how great the pictures look, the rest of the time you will be disappointed.
Not sure how how Nokia screwed it up this bad.
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I recently discovered this on a white lumia 900 and wonder if this is normal or if I need to get my phone exchanged.
The camera always gives a slightly discolored halo in the middle of a picture taken without a flash. I took a picture of a blank white wall and the effect can be seen clearly in the piture. (I adjusted the brightness a bit) (since i cant post links)
imgur.com/caiBu
Also, it doesn't take really good pictures in the dark. One weird thing that I saw is in this picture below. I took a picture with the phone in complete darkness and then opened the picture on the phone. The screen looks black but then when you pinch-to-zoom and increase the picture size, all sorts of weird dots and stuff appear and also can be seen if you auto-correct the final image using any picture software. I clicked the picture of the phone screen in a dark room.
imgur.com/bnp0F
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randomlightspeed said:
I recently discovered this on a white lumia 900 and wonder if this is normal or if I need to get my phone exchanged.
The camera always gives a slightly discolored halo in the middle of a picture taken without a flash. I took a picture of a blank white wall and the effect can be seen clearly in the piture. (I adjusted the brightness a bit) (since i cant post links)
imgur.com/caiBu
Also, it doesn't take really good pictures in the dark. One weird thing that I saw is in this picture below. I took a picture with the phone in complete darkness and then opened the picture on the phone. The screen looks black but then when you pinch-to-zoom and increase the picture size, all sorts of weird dots and stuff appear and also can be seen if you auto-correct the final image using any picture software. I clicked the picture of the phone screen in a dark room.
imgur.com/bnp0F
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Let me see if I can give a simple explanation..
For your halo effect or as you can see its yellowish in the middle a been a noted problem in the lumia phone ( Samsung SGS2 forums are filled with similar problems what they call as the pink spot).
Apparently the phone might have a problem of adjusting the white balance and hence giving the yellowish tint.
Solution : I would try and see if you can manually adjust the white balance on the camera setting and see if it makes a difference to you as people have seem to found better results then the auto settings.
Regarding the Second problem as mentioned above its Noise which you probably get with low light photography.
SOLUTION : Try using flash with lower iso if possible, The higher the iso the more the noise, the lower the iso the less the noice will be and also make your pictures more darker, best to use flash.
Just my humble thoughts... and I dont have the lumia yet, but hoping to purchase one soon.
There are quiet a number of bugs in the lumia 900 which nokia has acknowledged and will be addressed in future updates
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Unfortunately, the camera on this phone sucks. I have one and it takes horrible pictures 90% of the time. 10% of the time you will be amazed at how great the pictures look, the rest of the time you will be disappointed.
Not sure how how Nokia screwed it up this bad.
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If your Lumia 900 is taking "horrible" pictures 90% of the time it is either defective our you aren't using it correctly.
There are several adjustments on the camera. I suggest playing with them. I definitely change the color balance depending on the lighting conditions and I mess with the scene settings as well.
When you say the pictures are "horrible" what are you comparing them to? Frankly I've never been impressed with the low light capability of sensors smaller than Canon APS-C. Especially if you decide to go pixel peeping the way the OP did. I pixel peeped an image from a point and shoot camera years ago... I never did it again. You see all kinds of things you don't really want to know about.
I suspected that my Note 8 had some backlight bleeding and I just confirmed it using the "Backlight Bleed Test" app from the Play Store.
For those who want to test their own units, simply download and run that app. It will display a black background and also boost the brightness level to 100%. If you do this in a dark room then you may see the white backlight of your tablet shining through some of the edges or corners of your unit. If you do see this, then your tablet has backlight bleed.
When I tested my Note 8, I found some bleeding on two corners and also a faint glow down the left side of my screen (I tried taking a picture of it but couldn't get the lighting right). In my case the backlight bleed is not too severe, but it bothers me to know that it's there in the first place. I'm wondering if all our units have this issue, or if some are better than others...
So...does your Note 8 have any backlight bleed? If so, how bad is it?
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I'll test this when I get my unit....
Just tested mine , the bleeding was negligible , very slightly on the bottom and left side.Hope that helps.
ktmman said:
Just tested mine , the bleeding was negligible , very slightly on the bottom and left side.Hope that helps.
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That sounds just like what I have on mine, good to know. Thanks for your report, if others all have the same experience than at least we know the frequency and extent of the issue. Curious to see if others end up with the same results. XDA, please keep those reports coming
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Just wanted to put my two cents in. I have a HTC amaze and the backlight bleed on that device is horrible. I have not tested mine, but I can tell you that I have not noticed any. So that means there is either very negligible or no backlight bleed on mine. In any case, I don't think it's anything to worry/complain about.
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Mine is okay even at the maximum light level.
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Mine is okay even at the maximum light level.
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I tested another unit at Best Buy and it was slightly worse then mine. It looks like almost all units have some backlight bleeding, although nothing too bad when compared with other devices. Going to keep mine because I only notice it in extreme conditions (i.e. high brightness setting, dark background, dark room), and even then the effect is minimal. Thanks for the reports xda. Feel free to send in more reports if you have different test results with your Note 8.0.
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Going to keep mine because I only notice it in extreme conditions (i.e. high brightness setting, dark background, dark room), and even then the effect is minimal.
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I think that is the right play. This sounds like the kind of thing that will only bother you, if you go looking for it. Unless the bleed is excessive (which its not). I usually have my brightness at 40 or 50% in a bright room, and turn it down much lower than that in a dark room. I can maybe notice some slight bleed on the boot screen, but never noticed it any other time. So I'm going to do myself a favor, and not even go looking for a problem (by running the suggested app).
On my unit the bleed is not noticeable on auto brightness - which in low light it's ok for reading but too dim for watching pictures well. Becomes visible, but still not overly distracting, in low light on a black background when brightness is raised to a comfortable level for picture viewing. It's obvious with the combination of low light, black background, max brightness, as seen in the picture.
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How does this compare with your experience?
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On my unit the bleed is not noticeable on auto brightness - which in low light it's ok for reading but too dim for watching pictures well. Becomes visible, but still not overly distracting, in low light on a black background when brightness is raised to a comfortable level for picture viewing. It's obvious with the combination of low light, black background, max brightness, as seen in the picture.
How does this compare with your experience?
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That's the same pattern as me, but a little more noticeable on yours. On my unit I can't see the bleeding on auto-brightness, and I only notice it in the lower-left corner and a bit at the bottom when it's a darker background/image and the brightness is turned up over 50%. After nearly two weeks of use it's fine for me, although I did try other units that had more noticeable bleed in different patterns that I would not have kept.
Got mine today and have some light bleed on bottom left corner and on the top side center. I wish it wasn't there, but it's not noticeable in normal usage. I have zero dead pixels, so I will just keep this one rather than try the exchange lottery.
I checked about 5 pieces of Note 8.0 today and all had some bleeding - some less than others. So I think this is an issue with all Note 8.0's. Some I tested before (and one today) also suffered from stuck pixel's... Anyway, I was able to find my self one without stuck pixels and not too bad bleeding
No I don't have any
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I have light bleed on the left side. I dont see it in normal use but with dark videos it shows pretty badly. It's not a deal breaker but it's a bit disapointing. Guess I'll have to try to avoid thinking about it.
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Mine has some near the bottom mostly
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Mine has some near the bottom mostly
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That was just a screenshot and it didn't show it well
The picture from the phone over exaggerates it, but it is only noticeable with a dark background, on high brightness in a dark room
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LEDs show through top edge above forward facing camera
A real problem is what my son has with his phone. This is being treated by Verizon as an actual defect.
Essentially we can see green LED's shinning through the top edge of the screen just above the forward facing camera.
please inspect your phone, we are getting this one replace on Thursday when they come out in stores officially.
If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Samsung Galaxy S7's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Love the phone but the display has a strong blue tint. The white is OK only when looking perpendicular at the phone, anything more than 5 degrees angle and it's getting a blue tint.
Not sure if it's worth replacing whit a new one, I compared mine with some others in stores and all are about the same. Only the edge has better colors at angles.
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Love the phone but the display has a strong blue tint. The white is OK only when looking perpendicular at the phone, anything more than 5 degrees angle and it's getting a blue tint.
Not sure if it's worth replacing whit a new one, I compared mine with some others in stores and all are about the same. Only the edge has better colors at angles.
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I aggree with you about the blue tint . In my phone is also visible but not that strong.
But in general it has the best display i ever saw in a phone!
I don't know what you all are talking about because when I was shooting a video outside the colors on my screen were so close to the actual colors of the things I was recording that it was crazy. Closer then any other phone I have ever used. Period. Not commenting on the rest of the stuff, but I was impressed with that
Just open Google page in your browser then look at it perpendicular and increase the angle slowly. Mine is getting blue tint pretty fast.
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Color saturation and accuracy are good and can be adjusted in the display settings, the only minor problem I have is color shifting when tilting the phone more than 20 degrees like the problem stated above. When it comes to screen uniformity on white and grey? Well I have been through 2 unit replacements before I finally got a uniformed screen without the pink tint on some part of the screen when viewing whites and greys.
It varies from phone to phone so it isn't something that is going to be standardized across all phones.
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Color saturation and accuracy are good and can be adjusted in the display settings, the only minor problem I have is color shifting when tilting the phone more than 20 degrees like the problem stated above. When it comes to screen uniformity on white and grey? Well I have been through 2 unit replacements before I finally got a uniformed screen without the pink tint on some part of the screen when viewing whites and greys.
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Does your white get a blue tint at angles ? I see it on mine everywhere, on icons, text, etc. It's uniform but annoying.
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I tried to capture how are my colours. Photos taken with an nexus 5. Look at that orange... That was supposed to be red. That is how I see the red when I look perpendicular on the phone. Photo is taken at an angle because perpendicular shots show both phones red, not true.
The white is blue tinted at angle on s7, less intense white / grey on angle ( not pink ) on g4.
The s7 is in the box, I'll exchange it tomorow. I found one on display in another store and it had perfect collors at all angles, to bad it's not my store. If the next one has issues I'll ask for the money and buy from that other place.
Everything else was perfect on this phone, damn amoled lottery
9h sot, perfect Wi-Fi and gsm signal; the audio is mediocre at best, but I could live with that.
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The blue tint is a byproduct of having amoled screen.
Not like it is on mine. I compared it with other s7's, one was about as bad and the other was perfect. On mine it's impossible to use the phone 5 minutes and not notice. Just tilting the phone a little (<5°) and the blue is visible. Normally the blue appears at much bigger angles, and I'm ok with that.
Anyways, no excuse for that " red. "
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On white screens my s7 has a warm tint when looking directly at it, but If I pan to the side or something it'll look crisp white.
I got the new one today. It has the same bright orange for red but the white is a little better. I still see the blue tint but not as strong as the other one and starts at a bigger angle.
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Just yesterday evening I noticed display is not uniform, the top part is a bit pinkish when displaying white, and the bottom is a tad greenish/yellowish (it's barely noticeable).
There's a big problem though when showing grey/dark blue (like the settings menu when using the "Material Dark" theme ):
About 1/3 of the screen (top part) is very dark compared to the much lighter bottom 2/3 of the screen.
I'm gonna call warranty tomorrow and try to get a replacement, unfortunately Samsung's importer in my country don't have very good customer service so I'm afraid they won't agree to replace it.
(btw I found a whole thread with ~100 pages on the S6 with the exam same problem I'm experiencing).
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Just yesterday evening I noticed display is not uniform, the top part is a bit pinkish when displaying white, and the bottom is a tad greenish/yellowish (it's barely noticeable).
There's a big problem though when showing grey/dark blue (like the settings menu when using the "Material Dark" theme ):
About 1/3 of the screen (top part) is very dark compared to the much lighter bottom 2/3 of the screen.
I'm gonna call warranty tomorrow and try to get a replacement, unfortunately Samsung's importer in my country don't have very good customer service so I'm afraid they won't agree to replace it.
(btw I found a whole thread with ~100 pages on the S6 with the exam same problem I'm experiencing).
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All I'm going to say is good luck getting one that's perfect. I was part of the s6 thread. People ended up getting worse units.
Samsung's AMOLED has come a long way since the first generation and it is now really comparable to IPS (or even better)
I would actually prefer the blue tint if ever, however mine has a yellowish tint (only on white) and it kind of annoys me.
I find the LightManager app useful to adjust tint.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager&hl=en_GB
mine actually got very warm display, especially with 'basic' setup. Adaptive is much better, but the screen looks oversaturated.
It has quite a strong pink tint when viewing perpendicular. The slightest tilt in any direction turns it into a light green tint.
The red test screen, seen from a 45deg angle shows orange as in the picture some posts before mine.
Looks like the red OLEDs are quite unreliable. They seem to have a narrower angle than the blue and green ones. Compensation of this effect turns the units either into pink or blue tinted items.
Difficult to deal with this behaviour as a sensitive photographers eye. Just ordered a second unit to compare it with.
Kind of longing back to my 4 year old lovely yellow warm tinted S4.
Is it me or what?? in comparison to my edge 7 and Note 5 this screen is washed out.
I've compared all three devices side by side and I can safely conclude that... it's just you.
me thinks i have a bad unit!!! but even the one in the store looks washed out. go figure
Maybe you want to change the screen mode to AMOLED ciname or adaptive.
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Maybe you want to change the screen mode to AMOLED ciname or adaptive.
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Thats what I was thinking.
daraj said:
Is it me or what?? in comparison to my edge 7 and Note 5 this screen is washed out.
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My color on my note 7 look washed out compared to my note 4.
Same here when comparing to my note 5 & s7e
I heard that they toned down the saturation to be more accurate. Waiting for Erica Griffins review
I have my screen set to basic on note 4 and note 7.
I'm no screen expert (old eyes!) but here's what I've noticed. On all my previous Galaxy phones, Basic and Photo modes were the least saturated and had a noticeably more yellow/warmer tone. Cinema was the most saturated and had the bluest/coolest tone. Adaptive was a bit less saturated than Cinema but still a much cooler/blue tone than Photo and Basic. On the Note 7, Adaptive has, by far, the coolest tone and Cinema is much warmer and closer to Photo and Basic. Also, none of the modes come lose to the intense saturation that previous Cinema modes had. It seems to me that this is a deliberate calibration and not a product of the display hardware because when I enable "video enhancer" under Advanced settings, I get a huge bump in saturation for youtube and Netflix. Still love the phone though!
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I'm no screen expert (old eyes!) but here's what I've noticed. On all my previous Galaxy phones, Basic and Photo modes were the least saturated and had a noticeably more yellow/warmer tone. Cinema was the most saturated and had the bluest/coolest tone. Adaptive was a bit less saturated than Cinema but still a much cooler/blue tone than Photo and Basic. On the Note 7, Adaptive has, by far, the coolest tone and Cinema is much warmer and closer to Photo and Basic. Also, none of the modes come lose to the intense saturation that previous Cinema modes had. It seems to me that this is a deliberate calibration and not a product of the display hardware because when I enable "video enhancer" under Advanced settings, I get a huge bump in saturation for youtube and Netflix. Still love the phone though!
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Completely agree with you on that, it's what I've noticed so far
So are you guys noticing like a washed out color on the bottom left of your phone? Is that normal? When looking at dark gray this part of the phone looks washed out. Almost looks like a greenish tint. http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/57b846c738e7b/20160820_105400.png?
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daraj said:
Is it me or what?? in comparison to my edge 7 and Note 5 this screen is washed out.
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I agree.
Just got mine today and thought thr screen looked a little faded for lack of a better word.
Checked it against my S6 and note 4 on the same settings with the same images and the 7 is definitely the least pleasing of the 3.
I am very surprised at this
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force70 said:
I agree.
Just got mine today and thought thr screen looked a little faded for lack of a better word.
Checked it against my S6 and note 4 on the same settings with the same images and the 7 is definitely the least pleasing of the 3.
I am very surprised at this
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I exchanged mine today and now the screen looks just great.
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I haven't tested side by side with my Note 4 but as already mentioned, I have found that adaptive seems closer to what cinema was on Note 4. If I select cinema and raise brightness past halfway it becomes less warm and more saturated however. I feel like the lower settings make it look more washed out.
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Ok so I just tested some side by side comparisons. Definitely some major differences. Firstly, the biggest difference is that they've changed the sharpness settings on the Note 7. I always noticed that 'extra' sharpness was applied on the Note 4 and sometimes actually distracted from the image as was too much. The Note 7 is MUCH softer. On the photo's I looked at it was almost like I lost 30% of the detail.
The other major difference seems to be contrast. No matter what mode I chose I couldn't replicate the same contrast as the Note 4. Always seemed a little more washed out on the Note 7. I ran all modes at full brightness. Note 7 definitely didn't seem any brighter at all.
Borijess - So you believe your phone is now better since replacement? I'm wondering if yours was actually worse or if this difference is normal.
rickydenim said:
I haven't tested side by side with my Note 4 but as already mentioned, I have found that adaptive seems closer to what cinema was on Note 4. If I select cinema and raise brightness past halfway it becomes less warm and more saturated however. I feel like the lower settings make it look more washed out.
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Ok so I just tested some side by side comparisons. Definitely some major differences. Firstly, the biggest difference is that they've changed the sharpness settings on the Note 7. I always noticed that 'extra' sharpness was applied on the Note 4 and sometimes actually distracted from the image as was too much. The Note 7 is MUCH softer. On the photo's I looked at it was almost like I lost 30% of the detail.
The other major difference seems to be contrast. No matter what mode I chose I couldn't replicate the same contrast as the Note 4. Always seemed a little more washed out on the Note 7. I ran all modes at full brightness. Note 7 definitely didn't seem any brighter at all.
Borijess - So you believe your phone is now better since replacement? I'm wondering if yours was actually worse or if this difference is normal.
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Yes it was worse. I was very disappointed with the first note 7. Now the screen is looking sharp and even. Now washed out colors. Using the basic setting in display settings.
Mine is the same . Would love to port the screen colour adjuster over from the S7 edge so cinema makes the colours pop a bit more .