“Dr. Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate Technologies, has published the first in a three-part series comparing the much-touted AMOLED display on the Google Nexus One with last year’s iPhone 3GS,” Hughes reports. “Parts two and three of the in-depth look are due to be published in the days to come at both displaymate.com and displayblog.com. He also spoke with AppleInsider about his time with the Nexus one and its comparison to the iPhone 3GS.”
“While the Nexus One might have a bright, eye-catching display, it also has lots of noise and artifacts, and it just isn’t accurate,” Hughes reports. “He said most users are probably wowed by the Nexus One display for the same reason people buy TVs at electronics stores with the brightest and most exaggerated picture — it looks great at the store, but at home it just isn’t right.”
Hughes reports, “Most high-quality displays, including the iPhone, have at least 18-bit color, and emulate 24-bit color with dithering. But in his tests, Soneira found that the Nexus One screen uses only 16-bit color, which allows 32 possible intensity levels for red and blue, and 64 for green. ‘This is common on cheap low-end devices, but it is unacceptable for an expensive high-performance ‘Super Phone’ that Google claims to to be,’ he wrote.”
Full article, with images of the screens, here.
John Herrman writes for Gizmodo, “The question now facing Nexus One owners is a psychological one: Now that you know about the display’s (or software’s) flaws, will your brain still be able to look past them?”
Full article, with images of the screens, here.
Superphone? ahahaha… was a POS.
Unlimited technology from the whole universe and we cruz around using the “Nexus One” POS!
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Apple will not be outdone, especially with a cutting edge ground breaking product like the iphone, did anyone really think different?
I don’t know if any follow-up will be done, but here’s a dirty little secret… The “Scientific” analysis was done comparing screen quality were actually using images that were compressed on the nexus one (the gallery app apparently automagically does this) and not on the iphone. If the “scientist” who did this had used another picture viewer app, or even a web browser, he would have seen much different results.
Not true Drew.
Look at the screen examples in the AppleInsider article. In this case a picture IS worth a thousand words.
“Now that you know about the display’s (or software’s) flaws, will your brain still be able to look past them?”
What brain?
Obama sez: “Google too big to fail.”
Obama sez: “We’ll look after Google now.”
Obama sez: “We will ax our federal officials to probe deeply into reports of Apple’s flaming iPods and iPhones.”
Obama sez: “We recommend people do not buy Apple products. Buy Google instead. Here’s $100 cash back.”
Obama sez: “You don’t like it? Fsck you, crackas. I’ll do as I please.”
3GS has problem with yellow-tinted and less contrast display comparing to 3G model. This was little disappointing me as photographer as white is no longer white … I don’t undestand why Apple uses less quality display in newer model !
Wow the mad scientist obviously didn’t think of that one Mr Bond.
@Drew
Your “dirty little secret” pales in comparison to the fact that Google is using 16-bit screen technology and claiming it’s superior to the iPhone’s screen.
Is it any wonder why PC users suffer sticker-shock when pricing Apple products? They value choice; cheap, cheaper, cheapest and never considered quality as a feature until they shopped their first Apple product.
NEVER MIND THIS!!! Keep paying attention to the feature lists! MOAR FEECHERSZ!!!
I hope they also compare the power consumption of both screen technologies, because it would be very interesting if the AMOLED Display uses really less energy or even more then the LCD counterpart.
Next, a comparison of the iPod touch vs. the OLED screen of the Zune HD?
Harry Negro dialect you’re a douchebag plain and simple
someone should kick ur prejudice ignorant ass
@rekesh Well believe it or not the iPhone used to have a perfectly colour balanced screen but apple choose to add the “warmth” on purpose , look it up. Yeah I don’t like it either.
Obama sez: “Honda’s next.”
Looks like our visiting redneck trailer trash doesn’t care for the President. He must have run out of Miller. That always makes ’em bitchy. Or, it could be that the last tooth in his head is aching.
Drew,
you are saying that if I load a picture into my device and open it with the gallery application my picture will get compressed?
That’s pretty strange.
@Snapper: the story about “warm” display is just Apple twaddle. The 3GS display is definitely the cheaper one…I am curious about 4G…
I think Drew is talking like Ace Ventura when bent over and hands at the ready on his derriere. LOL
Sir Gill Bates,
It’s not just “trailer trash,” you elitist Liberal scumbag, it’s most of the country and growing every day:
Monday, February 22, 2010
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. That matches yesterday’s result as the lowest level of strong approval yet recorded for this President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19.
The only day that Barack Obama’s Approval Index ratings were lower than today was last December 22.
Like today, that came at a time when the President was making a strong push for his proposed health care legislation. Most voters have consistently opposed that plan.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Ladies and Gentlemen, THIS THREAD HAS BEEN HIJACKED…
Yeah, and Rasmussen is sooo credible. Take your tea bagging, corporate social welfare agenda and stuff it.
What you fail to mention is that voters consistently opposed the plan because it doesn’t have a viable public option or a way to compete with insurance companies among other factors. The US is only industrialized nation in the world who doesn’t have a single payer system.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/30/sunday/main4765027.shtml
But, hey, why let helping the sick and the dying get the healthcare they need get in the way of profits. Predatory capitalism at it’s finest.
Actually, here’s a link to another Rasmussen poll that backs up my public option comment:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/august_2009/without_public_option_enthusiasm_for_health_care_reform_especially_among_democrats_collapses