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Screen comparison: Samsung Galaxy S III vs the fierce competition

Another comparo of s3 is out guysss but this time its on the display.. .. ..
Just check this out ! !
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Scre...alaxy-S-III-vs-the-fierce-competition_id30435

What?

pikulu said:
Another comparo of s3 is out guysss but this time its on the display.. .. ..
Just check this out ! !
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I think you forgot to add something there...
What is it you wanted us to see?

enigmaamit said:
I think you forgot to add something there...
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something important is missing

Epic!

Can't you see it? He's showing how well the SGS3 displays whites compared to the Xperia S and One X.

BarryH_GEG said:
Can't you see it? He's showing how well the SGS3 displays whites compared to the Xperia S and One X.
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i can see big dots in whites

BarryH_GEG said:
Can't you see it? He's showing how well the SGS3 displays whites compared to the Xperia S and One X.
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Matrix style... there is no spoon!!

loll,i am sory guys in hurry i forgot to add the link
Its some kind of s3 fever
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Here it is

pikulu said:
loll,i am sory guys in hurry i forgot to add the link
Its some kind of s3 fever
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despite fever you have posted a much required article

Uh oh. The fanbois aren't going to like that.

BarryH_GEG said:
Uh oh. The fanbois aren't going to like that.
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time to start yet another war
the article itself is pretty conclusive. RGB always have the better density /.

bala_gamer said:
time to start yet another war
the article itself is pretty conclusive. RGB always have the better density /.
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What's interesting is that the One X comes with panels from two different vendors, Sharp and AUO. The AUO panel is the one that's appeared on all the reviewers test units. It's got far better contrast, more natural colors, and cooler whites. Some of the *****ing about the One X display is from people that have gotten Sharp panels which are noticably warmer. I'm sure Samsung screens all the panels on their reviewer units too so the comparisons are fair.
Here's how the two panels looked side-by-side on the Sensation.
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This image is the best we can get, look at the image below
The 1st comparison clearly shows how good is the RGB matrix, despite the red area showing too much dots in s3 the mobile that is captured in that picture has almost same details.
The 2n comparison shows how good is the real blacks in s3 and infact the text looks much crisper. The hox screen simply couldnt match the blacks of amoled.
Do note that this is not the resolution we will be using for daily usage, the resolution used is far from the regular usage
if anyone missed the below image i posted a few days back(extracted from mobile-review.com) it tells a different story
which one looks sharper? judge by yourself

bala_gamer said:
This image is the best we can get, look at the image below
The 1st comparison clearly shows how good is the RGB matrix, despite the red area showing too much dots in s3 the mobile that is captured in that picture has almost same details.
The 2n comparison shows how good is the real blacks in s3 and infact the text looks much crisper. The hox screen simply couldnt match the blacks of amoled.
Do note that this is not the resolution we will be using for daily usage, the resolution used is far from the regular usage
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Thats why a rgb striped display can easily beat a pentile diplay interms of resolution but interms of contrast,amoleds are THE king

BarryH_GEG said:
Here's how the two panels looked side-by-side on the Sensation.
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The warmer ones looks totally different, samsung sure will have similar problems .

I am a bit confused here...According to gsmarena test note was the brightest amoled but here phonearena states that s3 is the brightest
Or this is because of the gorila glass 2 ????

bala_gamer said:
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Which one looks more like the original image? That's what matters most. All the pencil pic shows is that the AMOLED displays are presenting the image differently than an LCD panel. That doesn't mean it's correct.
This video compares LCD2 to SAMOLED with mutiple subjects, at different depths, and in different lighting conditions. And each shot starts out by showing the original. It's a GN their comparing but the discussion is sharpness, not brightness, And with similar PPI the GN and SGS3's ability to display detail should be the same.

This is starting to get silly. I have seen image comparisons where i without doubt prefere the S3 over the One X. With this comparison it is the other way around.

How about your screen quality? Disappointing ... [ Update clip ]

Oct 6th: I got some phone compare to Note 2:
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Oct 2nd: Today I hand on Note 2 import from Hong Kong but I don't like the screen: still not better than S3, I think S3 screen a little bit better. How about yours?
Note 2 next to IP4.

Its known AMOLED screens have bad whites...
But I didn't bother me on other AMOLED screens, so I think it will be fine as long I wont compare it with other displays.

Would like to see more on this. I heard the screen on this was noticeably better than Note 1 and the S3. Less blue and less pentile hatcheting. Is that true?

I think you forgot to adjust the brightness

Is there any tint problem with note II?LIke the pink tint of s3????I dont know why but the display of note II appears a bit pinkish or i may be wrongg???

GizmoFreak said:
I think you forgot to adjust the brightness
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Indeed at low brighness the amoleds do not look good.

GizmoFreak said:
I think you forgot to adjust the brightness
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Of course no . Both = max brightness.

Can you take a pic of a webpage (for example the xda webpage) on both machines please?
I'd like to see how text looks against the background.

on2a said:
Would like to see more on this. I heard the screen on this was noticeably better than Note 1 and the S3. Less blue and less pentile hatcheting. Is that true?
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I'm thinking about marketing purpose when Samsung change matrix from Pentitle to non-pentile with strange matrix arrange .

Sorry, but its hard for me to believe this... Every site said the new AMOLED has great whites.
Can you compare it with Galaxy S3?

DubelBoom said:
Sorry, but its hard for me to believe this... Every site said the new AMOLED has great whites.
Can you compare it with Galaxy S3?
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When I compare to my IP4, I decide buy it later because I know that Super Amoled = not uniform. Tomorrow I will compare again with S3, IP4, IP5 and other I can .

Viper2005 said:
Can you take a pic of a webpage (for example the xda webpage) on both machines please?
I'd like to see how text looks against the background.
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Tomorrow I will hand on again cause I did not buy it .

I remember on my S3 there was a setting in the display menu....I can't remember on top of my head but this setting would allow the S3 to optimize the screen image to save battery. If this setting is enabled on your note like my s3 was then that could be why its not being brighter.

The only thing disappointing about this are the other people showing the Note II being better than the iPhone.
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ciscostud said:
I remember on my S3 there was a setting in the display menu....I can't remember on top of my head but this setting would allow the S3 to optimize the screen image to save battery. If this setting is enabled on your note like my s3 was then that could be why its not being brighter.
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Of course no battery save mode

Nero6 said:
The only thing disappointing about this are the other people showing the Note II being better than the iPhone.
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At this time, Super Amoled can not be better IPS about white color but black

How are you performing your test exactly?
You didn't buy it? How are you testing it in a room so dark then?
I've actually noticed, on my note 1, if you use the 'stock' internet browser and use a power saving mode, then it dims it using a very bluish tint, which looks quite different from just setting brightness at a lower level. So it could be test related.
I can't imagine any reason at all why the screen would be worse than the S3.
Samsung has said this is their best screen ever.
- Frank

ChodTheWacko said:
How are you performing your test exactly?
You didn't buy it? How are you testing it in a room so dark then?
I've actually noticed, on my note 1, if you use the 'stock' internet browser and use a power saving mode, then it dims it using a very bluish tint, which looks quite different from just setting brightness at a lower level. So it could be test related.
I can't imagine any reason at all why the screen would be worse than the S3.
Samsung has said this is their best screen ever.
- Frank
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I won't believe it neither unless I see it in person.
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ChodTheWacko said:
How are you performing your test exactly?
You didn't buy it? How are you testing it in a room so dark then?
I've actually noticed, on my note 1, if you use the 'stock' internet browser and use a power saving mode, then it dims it using a very bluish tint, which looks quite different from just setting brightness at a lower level. So it could be test related.
I can't imagine any reason at all why the screen would be worse than the S3.
Samsung has said this is their best screen ever.
- Frank
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Samsung always said that when thay launch a new product

Zanr Zij said:
Samsung always said that when thay launch a new product
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And so does any other company in the world

[Q] Black level

Searched google and couldn't find user input on the black level. According to that early test by a Chinese site they found black level to be extremely good. Here's the image
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Now as the phones reaching users can anyone confirm in pitch black the amoled output? To me that's the most impressive improvement dating back to when amoled first went HD on the galaxy nexus and lost that level of output.

Yes, it is totally black. Way better than S3 and Note 2.

The blacks are the best I've ever seen.
The pixels are completely off, as opposed to previous amoled screens where there was still a light glow.

Wanted to give this Q too I had previously SGS2 and SGS3 is it even better than SGS2 display in the case of black displaying? I was very satisfied with SGS2 blacks... THX

kultus said:
Wanted to give this Q too I had previously SGS2 and SGS3 is it even better than SGS2 display in the case of black displaying? I was very satisfied with SGS2 blacks... THX
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It's much better., Infact it''s impossible to get better blacks as the pixels are completely off.
I was always disappointed with previous phones as in a dark room once your eyes focused the blacks would look light grey and you could see blotches and streaks.
On the s4 you see nothing at all.
If you switch your phone on in the dark all you see is the samsung logo on the screen, nothing else.

perfect THX for response I hope that will have zero stuck/dead pixels

That's amazing. It's pretty poor form that all reviews as far as I'm aware have stated the previous amoleds with that slight glow as infinite black.
Anyway the S4 finally has something I'm really jealous of now. Another question similarly relating, does the brightness go lower than the S3?
?????? Galaxy S3 ??????

I think something is wrong with mine. I have the Galaxy S3 and I would say it's a really dark gray, not quite black. But on the S4, I'd say it has a reddish tint to it when I have it all black in a dark room. I may try and take a picture of it tonight.

jasbur17 said:
I think something is wrong with mine. I have the Galaxy S3 and I would say it's a really dark gray, not quite black. But on the S4, I'd say it has a reddish tint to it when I have it all black in a dark room. I may try and take a picture of it tonight.
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I think its every device or atleast very common, but most people havent notice it (atleast not yet) . Ive come to realize its software related so im not freaking out yet. Just posted this in the ATT forums: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40841213&postcount=104

It is honestly that black that when I was waiting on a video to buffer in my pitch black room that it looked like the blue circle was floating!! literaly no light on screen apart from the blue circle. It actually looks really cool lol

Infy_AsiX said:
That's amazing. It's pretty poor form that all reviews as far as I'm aware have stated the previous amoleds with that slight glow as infinite black.
Anyway the S4 finally has something I'm really jealous of now. Another question similarly relating, does the brightness go lower than the S3?
?????? Galaxy S3 ??????
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It is brighter than S3. :good:

It is perfectly black unless you suffer from the bug I posted about here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256651 .

its pitch black, i tried finding some ink spots/ blotches and black level last night but failed miserably

suadion said:
It is perfectly black unless you suffer from the bug I posted about here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2256651 .
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ghosting problem I'm reading on xda sounds bad too
?????? Galaxy S3 ??????

There is a comparison between S3 and S4 black/grey scale in this video, FFW to 17:10 (or watch the whole unboxing and comparison to HTC One video if you want).
You may have seen this by now, but if not it might answer some of your questions.

[Q] Does S5 is affect purple smearing like s4 and note 3

Anyone can tell me if S5 is affect purple smearing like s4 and note 3?:fingers-crossed:

I messed around with an S5 demo unit in my local O2 shop last weekend and performed a direct comparison between my S4 and the S5 looking for this very thing. There was no smearing at all on the S5, where as it's blatantly obvious on the S4 in comparison.
So no is the answer, which is great news.

Pagnell said:
I messed around with an S5 demo unit in my local O2 shop last weekend and performed a direct comparison between my S4 and the S5 looking for this very thing. There was no smearing at all on the S5, where as it's blatantly obvious on the S4 in comparison.
So no is the answer, which is great news.
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This problem shows when in low light ambient and display set to minimum
Did you tested in that condition?

sonkycom said:
This problem shows when in low light ambient and display set to minimum
Did you tested in that condition?
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No, I didn't. But, speaking as someone who has owned an S4 for 12 months, it doesn't just show itself in this environment. As I said, I ran a direct comparison between my S4 and the S5 whilst in the shop with both set to low brightness, and in that particular environment the S4 smearing was obvious and the S5 didn't manifest any at all. So at the very least it is considerably better than the S4 and I'd go so far as to say the issue has been rectified.

Pagnell said:
No, I didn't. But, speaking as someone who has owned an S4 for 12 months, it doesn't just show itself in this environment. As I said, I ran a direct comparison between my S4 and the S5 whilst in the shop with both set to low brightness, and in that particular environment the S4 smearing was obvious and the S5 didn't manifest any at all. So at the very least it is considerably better than the S4 and I'd go so far as to say the issue has been rectified.
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Thank you so much!!:good:

sonkycom said:
Anyone can tell me if S5 is affect purple smearing like s4 and note 3?:fingers-crossed:
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They S5 review by GSM arena, they did mention the smearing issue when brightness is set to low. Atleast it is noticeable in lower brightness.
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plasmastate said:
They S5 review by GSM arena, they did mention the smearing issue when brightness is set to low. Atleast it is noticeable in lower brightness.
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True. All Amoled bahaves the same.
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It certainly wasn't noticeable on the S5 I used in the shop. As said above, at the very least it's considerably better than the S4.

Pagnell said:
It certainly wasn't noticeable on the S5 I used in the shop. As said above, at the very least it's considerably better than the S4.
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Way better!
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Pagnell said:
It certainly wasn't noticeable on the S5 I used in the shop. As said above, at the very least it's considerably better than the S4.
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Hello, today i bought new s5 and tested in a dark room with video that shows "quick moving black objects" and the result is :
the s4 pink smearing is still affected on s5
the entire screen background is turned from s4 BLACK to s5 BLUE and that can help hide the smearing because no black color is showing(pixel off)
this may result more consumption of battery (i think) .
you can still notice the pink smearing when in dark room set screen bright to lowest, go to Phone Dial and fast pressing on the 3 dot icon (more) on top right under the Contacts icon > PINK PINK!! (because this background is black)
because this is the SUPER AMOPINKLED bring to you by SAMSUNG :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:

I believe gsmarena and anandtech both mentioned smearing. Not a big big deal but I wish Samsung would do better.
sent from my sm-9005.

I'd take the S5's SAMOLED with smearing under extreme low light over any competing IPS with backlight bleed at all levels of backlight.

To each its own, that's like runflat vs regular tires to each pros and cons
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A little something I found that helps greatly reduce the "purple" smearing:
1. Set your screen profile to Pro Photo or Movie(preferred).
& more importantly.
2. Download Lux from the Play store. Enable night mode and set the White Balance to Fluorescent.
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Don't thank me, I'm useless.

I haven't noticed it on mine like I did with my s4
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Yep... My S5 and Note 3 have near-identical levels of smearing at the lowest brightness in the middle of the night in a dark room.
But if that's the price I pay for having a screen where black really is black (as opposed to dark grey) and doesn't use battery for black, I'll take AMOLED any day.

Yes, it suffers in the same way.
It's a problem related to AMOLED technology. If you use a totally black screen, all points are off. When you move a line in this screen, the points must be switched on and the response time cause the problem.
The only solution is not using a totally black background. Use a DARK one, but not full black. This, for exapmple, is what Samsung have done in the setting screen. Try it.

Top side of the screen going darker / banding / burn-ins

First of all, let me say that prior to reaching the decision to open this thread, I did some quite extensive research on what I am going to talk about, but only found references to the smearing thing.
So, the problem, as quick as possible...
Do you use Tapatalk? I'm sure many of you do. You know how it's got a dark gray background, right? Well... that dark gray background... look closely. The bottom portion of the screen is going to be gray (actual gray!), while, as you go toward the top side, you'll see the color turning into a purple hue... :/
Same thing can be observed in the inverted version of Play Store (such as the one included in SlimKat) which has the same background as Tapatalk - dark gray.
I think that the top side of the screen is now displaying gray as darker purple because of the CPU (it's right there, heating the display all the time).
Anyone else experiencing issues like this one?

Thats normal with super amoled display.. I bought s4 recently and got this same issue and also some horizontal and vertical lines in the display which are only visible on low brightness.. I asked for replacement and after my phone replaced twice I got twice new phone with same issue.. I have also searched over net about this isuue and this problem is common in super amoled display.. so just make ur brightness more or equal to 50% and those issues will get vanished..
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coolkoushik07 said:
Thats normal with super amoled display.. I bought s4 recently and got this same issue and also some horizontal and vertical lines in the display which are only visible on low brightness.. I asked for replacement and after my phone replaced twice I got twice new phone with same issue.. I have also searched over net about this isuue and this problem is common in super amoled display.. so just make ur brightness more or equal to 50% and those issues will get vanished..
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I know it is a common issue with Super AMOLED displays. Having owned the Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 2, I'm well aware of it. Just figured they have figured it out and made the displays much better in the Galaxy S4. Truth be told, I've owned this S4 for almost 8 months now, so it's done its job, lol.

8 months? its still covered by samsungs' one year warranty.

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8 months? its still covered by samsungs' one year warranty.
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Yeah but I don't have one...

Knox?
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TRusselo said:
Knox?
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No. I'm on the old MGA bootloader, so no Knox. I haven't bought this phone from a retail store, but from a guy, who... RIGHT... he said he has a friend in Samsung store so it can act as a warranty. That was 7 months ago, though. Anyway, will give that a shot. Regardless, hope the issue I'm having doesn't spread and become worse!

Formhault said:
I know it is a common issue with Super AMOLED displays. Having owned the Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 2, I'm well aware of it. Just figured they have figured it out and made the displays much better in the Galaxy S4. Truth be told, I've owned this S4 for almost 8 months now, so it's done its job, lol.
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So u got the issue after using it for 8 months?? When u bought ur phone, ur phone was free from this issue??
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coolkoushik07 said:
So u got the issue after using it for 8 months?? When u bought ur phone, ur phone was free from this issue??
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Yea, the screen was next to perfect when I bought it - if you disregard the white color being generally inconsistent across the entire screen, which is the case for almost every AMOLED display out there (to some extent). But the gray color was the same.
To be clear, my device is a I9505, not I9500. I hear there are some differences in screens between the two models, with the I9500 having a slightly warmer screen.
@coolkoushik07, @TRusselo... Are your screens acting up, too?

I have had a samsung captivate for a year and a half, an S3 for 8 months, and now a S4 for about as long, with never one screen issue (aside from dropping it)

TRusselo said:
I have had a samsung captivate for a year and a half, an S3 for 8 months, and now a S4 for about as long, with never one screen issue (aside from dropping it)
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I'm assuming you did check thoroughly. Not like other people I know do, like, say, my girlfriend (glances quickly at the screen while in Chrome, observes nothing, thinks I'm crazy) :silly:

Formhault said:
I'm assuming you did check thoroughly. Not like other people I know do, like, say, my girlfriend (glances quickly at the screen while in Chrome, observes nothing, thinks I'm crazy) :silly:
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Retired Moderator and Recognized Developer?
No. I'm just like your girlfriend....
Gaw...

TRusselo said:
Retired Moderator and Recognized Developer?
No. I'm just like your girlfriend....
Gaw...
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I saw that and wanted to edit the post later to cut that out. Forgot...