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[Q] HTC Legend dsiplay changed from AMO LED to LCD?

Hai everyone
just now i saw htc india website
showing htc legend as 8.12cm TFT LCD
320*480 OLED 262K display
http://www.htc.com/in/product/legend/specification.html
But in GSM arena specification it showed as
AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_legend-3141.php

They're both OLED screens.

but in gsmarena showed as 16M colors
htc india showed as 262K colors

Probably just a typo by GSM Arena.

I believe the 1st and 2nd wave of Legends came with Amoled displays, after that they went to the LCD display
Ps: I think their now using sonys SLCD displays due to samsungs expensive amoleds...i could be wrong though

Caifan09 said:
I believe the 1st and 2nd wave of Legends came with Amoled displays, after that they went to the LCD display
Ps: I think their now using sonys SLCD displays due to samsungs expensive amoleds...i could be wrong though
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Actually you are correct. Amoled shortages. Both legend and desire models have switched to tft in some, if not all markets.
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I see a steep price drop in India is panel is changed to cheaper 256K colours ...

Is there an easyish way to tell which you have?
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they just mentioned shortage for 3.7 inch screens for the desire ... no one mentioned the legend ..

kazzaz said:
they just mentioned shortage for 3.7 inch screens for the desire ... no one mentioned the legend ..
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That is because Legend don't use 3.7". The AMOLED shortage was announce months ago.

bullchicken said:
Is there an easyish way to tell which you have?
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Take a picture and see how the pixels are mapped

Wasn't the legend discontinued by Bell in august because of screen shortage or something?
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I compared my silver (release date) legend with my girlfriends phantom black legend and you can see the difference very good.
The new screen is much much brighter and black is much darker.
I also think it consumes less power, cause her battery doesn't drain that fast compared to mine according to the battery stats.
My question is, can we replace our amoled display with the newer display ?

Why would you want to do that amoled is superior to the normal tft in many ways... except for the battery life
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ananthm2k5 said:
Why would you want to do that amoled is superior to the normal tft in many ways... except for the battery life
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TFT is sharper too
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/spot-the-difference-htc-desires-slcd-versus-amoled/

Kwen said:
TFT is sharper too
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/spot-the-difference-htc-desires-slcd-versus-amoled/
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That's Sony's Super LCD... not a regular tft. It's only on the desire and the nexus not the legend.
Also the article you provided compares the desire's amoled which has a pen tile distribution of pixels hence the loss in the sharpness and colour rendering. The legend's screen has a normal RGB distribution.
And read the entire article. Amoled gave better results and better battery performance. What more do you want ?
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ananthm2k5 said:
That's Sony's Super LCD... not a regular tft. It's only on the desire and the nexus not the legend.
Also the article you provided compares the desire's amoled which has a pen tile distribution of pixels hence the loss in the sharpness and colour rendering. The legend's screen has a normal RGB distribution.
And read the entire article. Amoled gave better results and better battery performance. What more do you want ?
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I stand corrected, I was under the impression all AMOLED screen used a pen-tile matrix
http://jtra.cz/stuff/android/htc/desire-vs-legend/display/index.html

ananthm2k5 said:
Why would you want to do that amoled is superior to the normal tft in many ways... except for the battery life
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Believe me, that screen is much better, Sharper, better colours
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Amoled with 3,2"
I had Desrire but now have Legend and I'm sure that's AMOLED display with 3,2 inches. Look this site in old Yugoslavia: http://mobilnisvet.com/mobilni/2502/HTC/Legend

I'm curious to know which type I've got now.

Happy with the 720p screen?

I've seen a couple of articles talking about the Samsung Galaxy S5, which is rumored to have a QHD 2k screen ( 2560 x 1440).
Just curious what others thought. Personally, I went from the HTC Rezound (which was also a 720p screen, but smaller at 4.3", so a higher PPI) to the Moto X, but I love the Moto X screen. I honestly can't imagine having a screen that's any sharper. I almost don't want a higer-rez screen, since it would probably just be a waste of battery power.
I'm sure there are some folks who are spec-oriented, but I feel all of the trade-offs made by the Moto X (720p screen, dual core, etc) were exactly right. Great screen, great battery, responsive UI, etc.

The newer SOCs well be more efficient, it won't have issues delivering fast performance for 1080p while getting good battery if well optimized, especially if reduced to dual core like the MotoX.
The MotoX screen have RGB matrix so it would have more subpixels than a Pentile and Diamond matrix AMOLED screen of the same resolution.
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I switched from the HTC One which had the most amazing screen. The Moto X is fine by all means though, it's vibrant and clear and 720P is more than adequate. I think I'm a sucker for AMOLED as well, the blackest of blacks, I'll never go backs. I've owned a GNex and a Note 1 and I feel this AMOLED is calibrated very well. Not quite as cartoony looking as my brother's Note 3.

The screen is 4.x" diagonally. If you can see a difference between 720p and 1080p, you need to take off your magnifying glasses and move the phone away from your face. While I'm all about bigger and better specs, a 2k res screen on a phone isn't necessary.

Yes

Yes. Samsung can make a millionp screen and I still wouldn't touch them. Lol
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The Moto X was engineered to be the best balance of hardware/screen/size/battery etc available. To that end the 720p screen is perfect. When the same balance can be achieved with a higher resolution screen then I will want it.
You will notice this is very similar to how Apple engineers a phone, no hardware is included that isn't optimized and balanced. They don't force a feature into the phone for the sake of marketing that really hurts the overall product balance.

The MotoX screen is fine but not as good as other Android like S4. I am happy with battery life and screen on time though so its a trade off.
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someguyatx said:
The MotoX screen is fine but not as good as other Android like S4. I am happy with battery life and screen on time though so its a trade off.
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My only reference is my GS3 and the screen on the X is every bit as nice.
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Yes the X screen is nicer than GS3
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I'm OK with it. But really wish it had a 1080. Want from htc one to moto x and can tell the difference

c19932 said:
I'm OK with it. But really wish it had a 1080. Want from htc one to moto x and can tell the difference
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Really? My son has the HTC One and we compared them, and I preferred the Moto X
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Ya know if the Moto x had a 1080 screen....battery wouldn't be as good. Personally I'll take the extra battery life. Screen looks good to me.
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I have the note 3 and honestly, the difference between the 1080p screen of the Note 3 isn't that much better than the 720p screen of the Moto X. They are both very sharp and as was stated above, I would rather the increased battery life than the sharper display. But in all fairness, I'm no pixel junkie so the 720p screen doesn't bother me at all.
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The only reason I was even remotely interested in the Moto X was because it carried an HD display-size: was AMOLED and was RGB-like matrix. The rest like usability and one-handed nature was icing on the cake. A FHD display is stupid and impractical for most common cases: the rare exception for me is reading textbooks and other small-font paragraphs: in which case, you're using the wrong tool for the task. Get a tablet or the 5.5"+ displays. The only other phone with a similar display is the Note 2 and that phone completely contradicts what makes the Moto X attractive.
However though, food for thought, anyone looking for a backup phone should consider a Note 2.

Yes, because I can't see the difference between this and a 1080p on a screen of this size (and probably neither can you).

I've never had a 1080p screen but I can't imagine anything being noticeably sharper than the Moto X's. That aside, the vast majority of the time you're not thinking about whether or not you can see traces of pixels when staring at the thing, you're just using it to actually do things and in that context brightness, color balance/saturation, and contrast are what you actually notice. All of those are great on the Moto, now every LCD screen I see looks washed-out to me!
Until batteries get a whole lot better, I don't see the point in 1080p for anything less than a 5" screen. It's like buying a 40" 4K TV... Just an opinion of course!

These resolution comparisons on screens smaller than five inches are getting ridiculous. 720 or 1080 really makes no difference on a screen this small. Unless you look at your phone with a magnifying glass or microscope the human eye can't really tell the difference. Backlight makes a bigger difference than anything. Anyway here is an article from professionals that will give a little more insight.
http://lifehacker.com/do-i-need-a-1080p-display-in-my-smartphone-1450793273

Samsung = e-penis enlarger...

I think the 720p screen is a big part of the reason the device is as snappy as it is, as well as good on battery. I can tell the difference between 720p and 1080p but it's tough without a side-by-side. The resolution is perfect IMO.

Active Display

Does this device have active display ala all other Moto X Models ???

Yes it does

I really like Active Display in 1st and 2nd generation of Moto X, but it looks like Play wouldn't have OLED screen. However, I'm not 100% sure - Motorola provided info about screen technology for X Style and it's TFT LCD, for X Play it only says that it's 5.5" FHD screen, covered with Gorilla Glass 3. It'd be strange if Motorola has used better screen technology and additional feature in cheaper phone (even considering Play's lower resolution). On several Play hands-on videos I've seen Moto Assist app and Display section, but no one was intelligent enough to check it - probably in their opinion Assist's redundant feature of "quiet hours" is more worth checking out. If someone had any sign of life from Active Display on Moto Play/Style in form of video or at least image, I'd really appreciate to look at it.
Nevertheless, abandonment of Active Display would make Motorola less distinctive - at least they've attached their contextual coprocessors and considering there are other ways of displaying data on LCDs, without waking backlight layer (like in Sony Smartwatch) that'd make sense.

Konpon96 said:
I really like Active Display in 1st and 2nd generation of Moto X, but it looks like Play wouldn't have OLED screen. However, I'm not 100% sure - Motorola provided info about screen technology for X Style and it's TFT LCD, for X Play it only says that it's 5.5" FHD screen, covered with Gorilla Glass 3. It'd be strange if Motorola has used better screen technology and additional feature in cheaper phone (even considering Play's lower resolution). On several Play hands-on videos I've seen Moto Assist app and Display section, but no one was intelligent enough to check it - probably in their opinion Assist's redundant feature of "quiet hours" is more worth checking out. If someone had any sign of life from Active Display on Moto Play/Style in form of video or at least image, I'd really appreciate to look at it.
Nevertheless, abandonment of Active Display would make Motorola less distinctive - at least they've attached their contextual coprocessors and considering there are other ways of displaying data on LCDs, without waking backlight layer (like in Sony Smartwatch) that'd make sense.
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There's plenty of videos on youtube showing Active display on both Moto X play and style. Motorola even showed it during the presentation. Screen technology is not a deal breaker, since both Moto E 2015 and Moto G 2015 have active display, even trough they have LCD.

m4tt94 said:
There's plenty of videos on youtube showing Active display on both Moto X play and style. Motorola even showed it during the presentation. Screen technology is not a deal breaker, since both Moto E 2015 and Moto G 2015 have active display, even trough they have LCD.
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You're right, there it is: https://youtu.be/NQvKGJpyKTY?t=44s

The Moxo X Play has active display, but its absolutely useless because it doesn't breathe (repeats), it shows notifications only once.

Display color dull, not vibrant enough

Hi, i just upgraded from moto X 2013 to moto X Play. Screen is a huge different. i feel it a bit bright and color is a bit dull, not as vibrant as on my 2013 moto X. Is it a problem ? should i take it back to the manufacturer ? Is IPS LCD screen on moto X Style the same if i switch to X Style .

Did you try changing the display settings to ambient display
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i tried everything in settings

Gigahyperprime1 said:
i tried everything in settings
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There's only two options under "Colour Mode" (in display settings) 1.Regular 2.Vibrant
If that doesn't work then your out of luck as far as settings go.
Personally I hate the Samsung over exaggerated colours that they pass off with their OS as being lifelike but each to his own.
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My mobile Moto x play XT1562 I am received two month back only mobile is very heating and display red and light blue color available in two days what do.

replacement LG G4 by OP5 ?

Hello all,
I have a question. I own a LG G4 that has an IPS QHD screen.
I do a bit of virtual reality with (mainly movie viewing) but I want to switch to the ONEPLUS 5 for other reasons (sotckage 128GB, BT 5.0, 8GB ram and Amoled screen).
However, with its full HD screen Amoled, I was wondering if it will bring me satisfaction for the virtual reality and i know it loses in definition of the screen.
Do you think I will strongly feel it or not?
I am not an expert on virtual reality, I would have liked to test with such a definition as the One Plus 5 but I do not know anyone who has such a resolution.
Thank you in advance for any help you could bring me in choosing the purchase or not.