Regarding Samsung Galaxy Nexus’ Super AMOLED screen vs. Super AMOLED Plus screens: “Samsung uses ‘Plus’ to refer to full RGB displays, in which each pixel possesses its own trio of red, green and blue sub-pixels. Meanwhile, a non-Plus display uses a cheaper PenTile system — which forces pixels to share each other’s sub-pixels… This results in a lower overall sub-pixel density, reduced sharpness and worse color rendition,” Sharif Sakr reports for Engadget.
“The folks at FlatPanelsHD have… calculated that, despite its 4.65-inch screen size, the Galaxy Nexus has the same number of sub-pixels as the 3.5-inch iPhone 4/4S,” Sakr reports.
Read more in the full article here.
Rasmus Larsen reports for FlatpanelsHD, “The OLED screen measures 4.65-inches and uses a 1280×720 HD resolution. The screen size is probably too large for the typical consumer but it delivers a lot of pixels – at least on paper. It has 315 ppi (pixels per inch), which is slightly lower than the Apple iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, which has a pixel density of 326 ppi. One would imagine that this qualifies as a ‘Retina Display’ (because it is over 300 ppi and viewed from 10-12 inches) but actually it does not.”
“A PenTile OLED panel was recently introduced with the Samsung Galaxy Note, and we were not impressed. In real world PenTile means loss of details and sharpness, as well as a bluish/greenish tint around letters (depending on the background color),” Larsen reports.
So, if you do the math you will get these numbers:
• Galaxy Nexus: 1280x720x2 = 1.843.200 subpixels
• iPhone 4/4S: 960x640x3 = 1.843.200 subpixels
Larsen reports, “And if you calculate the real pixel density you will find that the Galaxy Nexus is actually closer to a ‘real’ ppi value of 200, which is just slightly higher than on the Galaxy S II (that uses a Super AMOLED Plus with RGB pixel structure). Some claim that a PenTile panel needs around 420 ppi to qualify as a Retina display and that is probably also the reason why Retina is nowhere to be found on the specs sheets of neither Galaxy Note nor Galaxy Nexus. If you are keen on a Samsung smartphone you might even find that the screen in the Galaxy S II is better. But the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S still lead the pixel race.”
Much more in the full article here.
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