A vibrant desktop monitor akin to a Samsung Galaxy phone? (2022 edition!)

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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10 years ago, I started a thread asking which desktop panel was the closest to my Galaxy SII, which I still have, albeit as a spare phone now! I've always been wowed by the SII and other S-series phones. The colour vibrancy of these panels, and how black the blacks really are. I think nowadays the black "blacks" might be known as "HDR" (?) but I don't think HDR existed 10 years ago.

The overall response on Overclockers was to go for the Dell Ultrasharp range, so I went for a U2412 in 2012, followed by a U2415 in 2017.

I now own an S20 Ultra and its bigger brother the Tab S8 Ultra with a 14.6" panel. So I'm starting this thread again 10 years later in 2022, checking what I need to look for criteria-wise, whether I should go for an OLED monitor or if AMOLED or SAMOLED exists yet in a monitor? I would love to have something like this as 27". Not so important, but are these panels really thin as well? I can't get over how thin the Tab S8 Ultra is. It's like 0.5cm thick and yet it's as big as a sheet of A4 paper!
 
You better not start holding your breath yet.
OLED is still hampered by inherent fragility and limited life time of that organic part.
Hence static high contrast images of desktop use risk image burn in through uneven wear of pixels.
Having lots of bright image content worsens that by creating heat, which is especially bad for that organic part.


Samsung's use of quantum dots for colour conversion to increase efficiency and max brightness is one solution to improve situation.
But risk is still there:

World first QD-OLED monitor from Dell and Samsung (34 inch Ultrawide 175hz)

I'd set it to 'Hide Taskbar' m8 just to be safe. Good shout. Personally I'm not too worried, got 3 year warranty. Chances are there will be something better out by then and the tech will have further improved too.
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Also LG and others are working on solutions to increasing maximum brightness, which would increase life time at lower brightness.
But it's always question if those techs can be made to work outside research laboratories and over the years there have been so many broken promises around OLED.
Hence it's better to not expect wider selection of panels in close future.


And as you mentioned colour vibrancy, LG is only trying to match DCI-P3 gamut in their panels.
Meaning also AdobeRGB covering LCD panels of other makers have wider gamut with deeper greens/cyan than heavily red extension emphasizing DCI-P3.
Also LG's use of additional white subpixels for brightness weakens it's colour purity and vibrance at higher brightnesses.

Samsung's QD-OLED does better being pure RGB and covers AdobeRGB better.
Though subpixel layout is triangular, which comes with its issues for text and fine graphics rendering.
 
Thanks guys :-)

It looks like I'm too early for this market, but eventually the best bet will be to go for Samsung QD-OLED.

I also had a nosey online to get an awareness of OLED panels in general. I saw reviews on Acer, ASUS, Alienware, Gigabyte, and they all seem to be colossal in size, like 43" up to 55" at 2160p which are TV-sized really. All I wanted really was a 27" at 1440p as that's the norm for consumer monitors imo.
 
Yeah, plenty of TV panels rebranded as monitor.
But at the same time nothing at old common for TVs 32" size, which would no doubt sell also as TV for people with little space.

Though there are apparently some issues in shrinking pixel size:
https://dough.community/t/exciting-monitor-trends-and-panels-found-at-display-week/35236
Micro-LED are pretty much at best five years away.


Also besides wonky subpixel layout Samsung's current QD-OLED iteration has "glow" when ambient light hits it:
https://youtu.be/YleSuwK8vR4?t=450
 
JediFragger said:
You're probably about 8/9 months too early with your request, LG have a 27inch high refresh OLED panel due at some point soon, that would seem to suit your request as closely as is possible.
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Yeah but LG OLED is not over saturated like Samsung screens are so he won't like it.

The best monitor that's going to be closest to a Samsung phone image will be the new Samsung QD-oled monitor. However, no monitor is going to come even close to the clarity of text on a phone screen because a 1440p monitor can't compete with a 1440p 6 inch screen
 
Unfortunately no desktop monitor sized variant with a non-BGR pixel layout version of the same panel and a higher refresh but not much beats the Philips Momentum 436M6 (VA QD-LED) for me personally when it comes to bright and vibrant colours. The panel does have other downsides but I find most of the newer QD-OLED, etc. displays have even more compromises which personally I find too detracting. Everything looks HDR on it, even SDR content to a surprisingly convincing degree, which helps to mask the inadequacies of the current HDR implementations.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Thanks guys :)

It looks like I'm too early for this market, but eventually the best bet will be to go for Samsung QD-OLED.

I also had a nosey online to get an awareness of OLED panels in general. I saw reviews on Acer, ASUS, Alienware, Gigabyte, and they all seem to be colossal in size, like 43" up to 55" at 2160p which are TV-sized really. All I wanted really was a 27" at 1440p as that's the norm for consumer monitors imo.
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the Alienware 34" is basically the same height as a 27" with an extra 30% on the sides.
 
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