Poll: ** The Official iPhone X Thread **

Which iPhone X are you getting?

  • Silver 64GB

    Votes: 35 6.6%

  • Space Grey 64GB

    Votes: 53 10.0%

  • Silver 256GB

    Votes: 31 5.8%

  • Space Grey 256GB

    Votes: 98 18.4%

  • I want one but it's too expensive

    Votes: 125 23.5%

  • I'm not interested

    Votes: 190 35.7%
  • Total voters
    532
rotor said:
Heh, direct quote: "Note that the Basic Screen Mode for the Samsung models, which we test here, is just one of four available Screen Modes that is selected under Display Settings (which many consumers and reviewers seem to be unaware of)". Confirms exactly what I'm talking about.
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Yeah..you were unaware of the screen modes.

Technically I have no doubt that Samsung screens are fantastic
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From Fisher price to fantastic in under an hour, impressive.

What I'm talking about is colour accuracy, which is a feature of the operating system, and I wasn't aware that in Android you can customise this. My argument still stands, which is that for the majority of users, the out of box experience is what they end up with, and the out of box experience (in my experience) of a Samsung phone is wildly over-saturated colours.
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Out of the box settings lol. You were not say that earler. It seems You'd rather push the Fisher price over saturated nonsense then accept the truth. Again, read the Display mate review and properly this time. Take note of what they say about colour accuracy in basic (sRGB), photo (Adobe RGB) AND cinema (Dci-p3) modes. The out of the box expediency is not an excuse for ignorance when it's so easy to set a display mode. Takes 10 seconds. You can even ask Bixby to change it for you.
 
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Mr_Cool said:
Best smartphone display confirmed...by DisplayMate
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Wow, seems like they knocked it out of the park! The conclusion says it all.

The Best Smartphone Display
· The iPhone X is the most innovative and high performance Smartphone display that we have ever tested.
· First we need to congratulate Samsung Display for developing and manufacturing the outstanding OLED display hardware in the iPhone X.
· But what makes the iPhone X the Best Smartphone Display is the impressive Precision Display Calibration that Apple developed that transforms the OLED hardware into a superbly accurate, high performance, and gorgeous display!!

See the Display Shoot-Out Comparison Table section below for the complete DisplayMate Lab measurements and test details.
See the Highlights and Performance Results section above for a detailed overview with expanded discussions and explanations.
See the Display Assessments section for the evaluation details.

The iPhone X has the following enhanced state-of-the-art display performance functions and features:

· A state-of-the-art OLED display that is manufactured on a flexible plastic substrate. While the OLED display itself is flexible, the screen remains rigid under an outer hard cover glass.

· A 2.5K High Resolution 2436 x 1125 Full HD+ Display with 458 pixels per inch, and Diamond Sub-Pixels with Sub-Pixel Rendering for enhanced sharpness and higher Peak Brightness.

· A radical new Full Screen design with a larger 5.85 inch OLED display that fills almost the entire front face of the iPhone X from edge-to-edge, providing a significantly larger display for the same phone size.

· A new display form factor with a taller height to width Aspect Ratio of 19.5 : 9 = 2.17, which is 22% larger than the 16 : 9 = 1.78 on most Smartphones (and widescreen TVs) because the display now has the same overall shape as the entire phone. It is taller in Portrait mode and wider in Landscape mode.

· A record high Full Screen Brightness for OLED Smartphones of 634 nits, which improves screen visibility in high Ambient Light. The Samsung Galaxy Note8 can produce up to 1,240 nits, but only for small portions of the screen area (Low Average Picture Levels) – for Full Screen the Note8 can produce up to 423 nits with Manual Brightness and 560 nits with Automatic Brightness only in High Ambient Light. For small portions of the screen area the iPhone X can produce up to 809 nits (Low Average Picture Levels). On its Home Screen the iPhone X produces an impressively bright 726 nits.

· The Highest Absolute Color Accuracy of any display we have ever tested, 0.9 JNCD (from Smartphones to TVs) based on our extensive Lab Measurements, which is Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.

· 2 Industry Standard Color Gamuts: the sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut that is used for most current consumer content, and the new Wide DCI-P3 Color Gamut that is used in 4K Ultra HD TVs. The DCI-P3 Gamut is 26 percent larger than the sRGB / Rec.709 Gamut.

· Automatic Color Management that automatically switches to the proper Color Gamut for any displayed image content within the Wide DCI-P3 Color Space that has an ICC Profile, so images automatically appear with the correct colors, neither being over-saturated or under-saturated.

· The iPhone X supports Mobile HDR, which allows the iPhone X to play 4K High Dynamic Range content produced for 4K UHD TVs.

· A Night Shift Mode that allows the user to adjust and reduce the amount of Blue Light from the display for better night viewing and improved sleep.

· A True Tone viewing mode that automatically changes the White Point and color balance of the display based on real-time measurements of the ambient light falling on the screen to make the display behave more like paper reflecting ambient light and taking on its color.

· Small Color Shifts and Brightness Shifts with Viewing Angle.

· The iPhone X can be used with Polarized Sunglasses in both the Portrait and Landscape orientations unlike many LCDs, which generally work in only one of the two orientations.

The iPhone X matches or sets new Smartphone display performance records for:

· Highest Absolute Color Accuracy for any display (0.9 JNCD) which is Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.

· Highest Full Screen Brightness for OLED Smartphones (634 nits).

· Highest Full Screen Contrast Rating in Ambient Light (141).

· Highest Contrast Ratio (Infinite).

· Lowest Screen Reflectance (4.5 percent).

· Smallest Brightness Variation with Viewing Angle (22 percent).

The Best Smartphone Display
The iPhone X delivers uniformly consistent all around Top Tier display performance and receives All Green (Very Good to Excellent) Ratings in all of the DisplayMate Lab test and measurement Categories (except for a single Yellow in Brightness Variation with Average Picture Level that applies to all OLED displays). See the Display Shoot-Out Comparison Table below for all of the measurements and details, and the Highlights and Performance Results section above for expanded discussions and explanations, and the Display Assessments section for the evaluation details.

Based on our extensive lab tests and measurements the iPhone X becomes the Best Performing Smartphone Display that we have ever tested, earning DisplayMate’s highest ever A+ grade. The iPhone X is an impressive display with close to Text Book Perfect Calibration and Performance!!

Improving the Next Generation of Mobile Displays
The iPhone X has a very high resolution 2.5K 2436x1125 pixel display with 458 pixels per inch (ppi) producing images that look perfectly sharp with normal 20/20 Vision under all normal viewing conditions, which always includes some ambient light that always lowers the visible image contrast and perceived image sharpness (Modulation Transfer MTF). Note that displays are almost never viewed in absolute darkness under perfect viewing conditions with ideal image content. Some clueless reviewers have been pining for 4K 3840x2160 Smartphones, which would require more than triple the pixels, memory, and processing power of the 2436x1125 display on the iPhone X, but there would be no visual benefit for humans! As a result, it is absolutely pointless to further increase the display resolution and pixels per inch (ppi) for a marketing wild goose chase into the stratosphere, with no visual benefit for humans!

With screen size and resolution already functionally maxed out, manufacturers should instead dedicate their efforts and resources into improving real world display performance in ambient light by using advanced technology to restore and compensate for the loss of color gamut, color saturation, and image contrast due to ambient light, something that every consumer will benefit from, and will also immediately notice and appreciate – providing a true sales and marketing advantage…

The most important improvements for OLED and LCD mobile displays will come from improving their image and picture quality and screen readability in real world ambient light, which washes out the screen images, resulting in reduced image contrast, color saturation, and color accuracy. The key will be in lowering the Screen Reflectance and implementing Dynamic Color Management with automatic real-time modification of the display’s native Color Gamut and Dynamic Intensity Scales based on the measured Ambient Light level in order to have them compensate for the reflected light glare and image wash out that causes a loss of color saturation and image contrast from ambient light as discussed in our Innovative Displays and Display Technology and SID Display Technology Shoot-Out articles.

In our High Picture Quality in Real World Ambient Lighting article we demonstrate that a major advantage of using Dynamic Color Management and Dynamic Intensity Scales rather than the current brute force method of just increasing the Picture Brightness in ambient light is that it can produce the same vibrant on-screen colors in ambient light with 75 percent less display power up through 2,000 lux, which is very important for TV energy efficiency, and also very important for Smartphones because they depend on limited battery power.

The displays, technologies, and manufacturers that succeed in implementing this new real world high ambient light performance strategy will take the lead in the next generations of mobile displays…
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Got my USB-C to Lightning cable through, so just testing fast charge using my MacBook Pro adaptor. Was 48% 1641, now showing as 78%. Impressive. I doubt I'll use it often as I'll just slow wireless charge overnight but it's useful to have.

Also, my iPhone 7 Plus used to be around 30% with the same usage, so another plus there.
 
ChrisD said:
looooooooool that's quite funny considering the past couple of pages.
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I dont see how? Samsung panels were already so close to being visually perfect that it wasn't going to take much to achieve that target 1.0 jncd. The problem wasn't anybody slating the x's screen, it's the usual Fisher price nonsense about anything that isn't an iPhone. Far from trying point the fingers at others, you(figuratively, not necessarily you) should be looking at yourselves first. Because now an iPhone has had a decent DisplayMate review, suddenly people start to take notice. That's their problem, at least some of us can remain objective.
 
I’m so glad that Apple decided to use those sub standard Samsung panels.. lol fanboys.

Samsung may have different colour profiles but only Apple has fully automatic colour management.
 
UberTiger said:
Wow, seems like they knocked it out of the park! The conclusion says it all.
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It's very impressive. It's a shame they didnt test true tone in more depth. One of the problems mentioned by DisplayMate in previous reviews is that accuracy drops as the ambient light increases. It would be nice to know if true tone addresses that as it sounds like what I've been saying Samsung need to implement on their phones - ambient light based colour adjustment.

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I’m so glad that Apple decided to use those sub standard Samsung panels.. lol fanboys.

Samsung may have different colour profiles but only Apple has fully automatic colour management.
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Which is brilliant, dont get me wrong. it's a far better solution than android, in fact up till recently android had no colour management at all. At the moment there's very little HDR content out there for mobiles. 90% of the time, one screen mode will cover it all. Well, that's if you ignore ambient light, anyway. It all changes during the day which is why i'm so interested in True Tone.
 
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Interesting about brightness, that actually full screen brightness is higher on iphone. I've not used Samsung, but thought based on all the info passed before, Samsung would be almost twice as bright.
 
I haven't read the full displaymate review, but they praised the note 8 display, and if they are now saying the X is better then that's pretty interesting.

I have both in my possession and like to think I could be objective about which is the best without being swayed by any allegiences. Still would choose the note 8 display to be honest.
 
Displaymate is about accuracy, where's a lot of people will pick the display that displays the more saturated colours, or even a display that crushes blacks because it looks 'punchier'. The Apple display is the most accurate, doesn't mean everyone will prefer that accuracy.
 
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Displaymate is about accuracy, where's a lot of people will pick the display that displays the more saturated colours, or even a display that crushes blacks because it looks 'punchier'. The Apple display is the most accurate, doesn't mean everyone will prefer that accuracy.
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Indeed. I know a lot of people who would prefer the punch of the default profile on Samsungs. Not I though.
 
OK... found my first annoyance.

There is no way to change the battery icon into a percentage.

I really don't care for the icon, I want my numbers back dang it!
 
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