From: Apple Insider ~ Scientific analysis finds iPhone LCD trumps Nexus One OLED
Google Nexus One VS Apple iPhone
The result: While the Nexus One might have a bright, eye-catching display, it also has lots of noise and artifacts, and it just isn’t accurate. He said most users are probably wowed by the Nexus One display for the same reason people buy TVs at electronics stores with the brightest and most exaggerated picture — it looks great at the store, but at home it just isn’t right.
“The Nexus One really exaggerates the colors, and when you first look at it, it looks great,” Soneira told AppleInsider. “But if you know what a picture is supposed to look like, then it doesn’t look so good, because there’s just too much color.”
Most high-quality displays, including the iPhone, have at least 18-bit color, and emulate 24-bit color with dithering. But in his tests, Soneira found that the Nexus One screen uses only 16-bit color, which allows 32 possible intensity levels for red and blue, and 64 for green.
“This is common on cheap low-end devices, but it is unacceptable for an expensive high-performance ‘Super Phone’ that Google claims to to be,” he wrote. “All screen colors are derived from intensity mixtures of the RGP primaries — with so few levels to work with the colors are coarse and inaccurate, which produces quite noticeable false contouring in many images and photos.”
This is why they never let you have the remote at Best Buy so you can check the picture presets they are using. Oh, and the reviewer said the best screen he currently likes is the Verizon Droid.
Chris wrote,
But still probably way above my Palm Tungsten E2. ;)
I’m really hoping you step into this discussion soon, oh ebook guru!
Link | February 23rd, 2010 at 9:12 am