Do Samsungs still have the sharpest / most vivid display?

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Pawnless Endgame

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I was totally awed by my Galaxy SII in 2011, so my next 3 phones were Samsungs. Went from SII to S4 to Note 4 and now S8+. I still have the S8+ and I actually still got the old SII :-)

I always want my next phone to be bigger than the last one, but my dilemma is that the Samsungs are so expensive now that they're basically iPhone territory. So my best bet in beating the previous phone's size and keeping the cost down is probably getting a OnePlus 6T. That would take me from 6.2" to 6.4". Does anyone know what the screen is like on that handset? Being visually impaired, I appreciated the vividness and sharpness of Samsung screens, so if the 6T isn't anywhere near as good, then I might stick with my S8+. Was thinking of going sim-only anyway.
 
The S8+ has a better display than the OP6T yes.

If it was based purely on screen, would I get the 6T over the S8+? No chance.
 
Best phone screens I've seen are on Samsungs (Galaxy S and Note) and iPhones (the AMOLED displays on the X, XS and XS MAX).

That being said, most high end screens are pretty good these days. The iPhone XR gets panned for its display, as did the Pixel 2 XL, but I find both of those more than acceptable. But for pure screen quality, the ones above have it in the bag.
 
Samsung have dominated the screen market for ages until the iPX came along (though I think Samsung made that screen :p). I think the iPX just pipped what ever S phone was out at that time and we might be in a situation where each rival flagship will pip the last for a few months, rather than complete Samsung dominance.

If your impairment favours Samsung, sounds like that's the way to go. Plus don't Samsung give users a little more flexibility with tweaking the screen (their profiles)?.

Might be worth keeping an eye on the Xperia 1. That's also OLED and 4K, likely with technology from their TV division.
 
This is somewhat related, but i'm probably in the minority of people who does not understand the love for OLED screens. Yes, you get a nicer screen with nicer colours/contrast/etc., at the cost of guaranteed screen burn in. Why on earth would I willingly pay almost £1000 (or even more) on something which is absolutely guaranteed to become defective within a few years or less? It'd be like buying a car where the windscreen will turn cloudy after a few years. Why would anyone want that?
 
Smeghead said:
This is somewhat related, but i'm probably in the minority of people who does not understand the love for OLED screens. Yes, you get a nicer screen with nicer colours/contrast/etc., at the cost of guaranteed screen burn in. Why on earth would I willingly pay almost £1000 (or even more) on something which is absolutely guaranteed to become defective within a few years or less? It'd be like buying a car where the windscreen will turn cloudy after a few years. Why would anyone want that?
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Guaranteed? I've used OLED panel phones for last 5+ years and never had screen burn in.

The screen is what you look at all the time on your phone, OLED provides the best quality you can get.

In a few years time your phones performance would have probably degraded in all areas anyways.
 
Smeghead said:
This is somewhat related, but i'm probably in the minority of people who does not understand the love for OLED screens. Yes, you get a nicer screen with nicer colours/contrast/etc., at the cost of guaranteed screen burn in. Why on earth would I willingly pay almost £1000 (or even more) on something which is absolutely guaranteed to become defective within a few years or less? It'd be like buying a car where the windscreen will turn cloudy after a few years. Why would anyone want that?
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Don't be so dramatic. I've had oled phones for years and not had a noticeable burn in problem. I still have an old galaxy s2 and s3 for miscellaneous duties used which are fine.

If it was such a big issue the whole forum would be up in arms.
 
Yep, my old S2 (which I fired up for the first time in ages yesterday, funnily enough) has no sign of burn-in at all. Still a very vivid display too, if a bit saturated and let down by the resolution.

Might buy a new battery for it actually, in case I ever need it as a spare.
 
Another who has never had any burn in on an AMOLED display.

Of course LCD never burns in or has image retention issues does it? I must be imagining it on my (12 month old) work laptop ;)
 
Its not really burn in on oleds though is it, its more the leds themselves weakening. My note 1, 2 and 4 all had it after around 1.5 years each. The problem was down to android not changing the header colour so it always ran the pixels harder than anywhere else on the screen hence the burn in around the top of the screen being much more evident than anywhere else, my S7 and note 8 have been perfect, note 8 is around a year and 4 months old so far.
 
Had burn on my S2,S4, note4, the Mrs s7 and my s8 to varying degrees ...

Her old s7 is HORRIFIC but she never listed to me and constantly had the brightness ramped whereas I have always tried to keep brightness at a reasonable level .... And got burned (heh) anyway.


Still love oled though, and my next phone will have an oled.panel too.
 
I had burn in on all my OLED phones, but that was due to me having my phones on constantly playing grindy games like Summoners War. Now I use NOX on my laptop instead for those lengthy game sessions.
 
Never had burn in on any of my OLED devices at all. Infact the only burn in I have seen is on my fathers current Moto G4 and that is has an LCD.

S2, S3, Note 4, Nexus 6P, Galaxy S8+ and a Samsung Tab S8.4 are my OLED devices that I currently recall and I never had any issues with those. The latter 3 devices are still in use today and I see no visible signs of burn in, as I do keep solid black and white wallpapers on my OneDrive to check every now and again.
 
I'm on an S8 and I don't even have the screen at its full resolution of WQHD+, just leave it at FHD+. I simply don't see a difference at actual usage distance. Maybe I would if I watched media that actually displayed at the top resolution but I don't.

Definite difference from the HD+ to FHD+ though.
 
I've had burn in on my Galaxy S3, S5 and now the S7 but it's not particularly noticeable unless you're looking at a white screen. I guess most people aren't that bothered because they don't expect to keep the phone for that long.
 
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