The research firm DisplayMate has determined the newly announced Samsung Galaxy S6 is tied with the older Galaxy Note 4 for best smartphone display.
Samsung sent DisplayMate, which regularly tests smartphone and tablet screens, pre-production models of both the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge to check out. Both have the same type of display, with a 5.1 inch high resolution Quad HD 2560x1440 pixel screen with 577 pixels per inch, with the only real difference being that the S6 edge has a curved screen.
DisplayMate gave the Galaxy Note 4 the title of having the best smartphone display in September 2014. In today's report, the research firm says:
The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note 4 are neck-and-neck record holders for display performance, effectively tied or alternating between first and second place in almost all categories except screen size for the much larger Galaxy Note 4, and the much higher pixels per inch for the Galaxy S6. What is especially impressive is that the overall display specs and performance of the Galaxy S6 have been maintained or improved after being scaled down by 20 percent in area from Galaxy Note 4. So… The Galaxy S6 matches the Galaxy Note 4 in overall display excellence and record performance and joins it as the Best Performing Smartphone Display that we have ever tested.
DisplayMate also compared the Galaxy S6's display against that of Apple's iPhone 6. It stated:
The Galaxy S6 has more than double the resolution and more than 4 times the number of pixels as the iPhone 6. It also has significantly higher peak Brightness, significantly higher Contrast Ratio in both low and high Ambient Light, significantly higher Absolute Color Accuracy, significantly better Viewing Angel performance, and has 4 selectable screen modes instead of a single fixed one on the iPhones.
Source: DisplayMate
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Analysis claims the Samsung Galaxy S6 is tied with Note 4 for best smartphone display
The Galaxy S6 is literally the only thing that might stop me from switching to iOS. I'm really sick of Android's inability to get phones timely updates because of all the tape with manufacturers and carriers.
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I've never tried viewing Angels. But I guess it Samsung over Apple, if I ever do!! :)
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You'll need to pray a lot to be able to do that AFAIK. :-D
Wonder what LG comes up with for the G4. Still think my LG2 has an amazing screen.
Who knows tho.. Might give SAMOLED a try this year.
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Not to start a lg samsung thing but when the g3 came out I was so sure I want that 2k screen until I saw it in person not sure what lg is doing wrong but long store short I ended up with the note 4 haha
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Seriously... Periods and commas. Give them a shot man. Sheesh
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I could never use anything else now, have an S5 and tab S 10.5, love them and the screens are the best tech, for now anyway.
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That tablet looks utterly ridiculous. Beautiful display.
It's still somewhat dim without Auto. Shame.
Ya know ... this truly is an issue with my Note. I wish they had an "adjustable" auto setting where I could brighten mine maybe 15-20%. Just seems to always be a little dim, except in pitch darkness. The new Note 4s adjust even lower in pitch darkness, and that is an improvement tho.
Man, talk about a spoiled American consumer ... me.
Note 4 FTW
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While I like the look of Samsung displays I still hate using them. They have not yet fixed the issue of burn in and whites turning yellow over time.
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The older whites have always had a yellow tint that's just the way it was get yourself a gs5 note 4 note3 then you'll see the difference upgrade
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Ever heard of using periods or commas? Just sayin....
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You more than made up for it. Lol.
You may need to upgrade that Samsung bagphone to a new model. :-D JK
This phone I'd being super hyped. Almost as bad as an iPhone does lol
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Thats cool and all but nexus devices have animations that turn three lines into an arrow!
And all this time I thought my Nexus 4 held the top spot. What a bummer. :D
My wife s5 and this note4 have no burn ins. She have hers for a year and mine 6 months. Don't use one device to broad brush all others.
The problem with AMOLED is future burn ins. With time the display is gonna look like shit, just like my S4's display now has some artifacts. That makes me afraid of buying the S6
Dude the s4 amoled display is not comparable to these next generation Sam-oled display. It's night and day bro! I believe those problems have been solved with the s5.
I'm not sure about that: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2799310
Issues like that are few and far in between on the S5. What you showed is the first I've ever heard of it, and I read ALOT of tech news, lol. Na man, samsung has pretty much perfected Amoled more recently with they're exclusive tech. Blue burn in's being an issue, and losing a lot of display brightness over time is no longer an issue for some time now.
Unfortunately I don't have the link to give you, but recently I read a review that broke down samsung's Samoled improvements over the last couple years in depth. I think it came from anandtech....Common issues of old are no longer
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I know right people keep bringing up older phones like ok that was 3 years ago tech stop complaining about your old phone why don't you upgrade FYI my grandson uses a gs3 and the screen it still good so is the one on my back up gs4
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I'm sorry to tell you this but AMOLED technology hasn't considerably evolved in the last 2 years, and all it takes is some googling to see that lots of GS5 and Note 4 users have been experiencing burn-ins because of it. You guys need to learn to recognize the faults of companies like Samsung and such, none of them are perfect, but they can always try to improve, as long as people show that what is currently available isn't good enough.
I'm very observant and I can see even the slightest details of a phone's hardware and software, like the artifacts in the wallpaper from the Galaxy Nexus back in 2011 or the gradient banding in ICS' background image on the settings app. Attention to detail is crucial in delivering a truly great experience, and that is for anything, from mobile phones to cars to smartwatches and so on.
and I believe you're talking out of your ass bro. it is still the same technology, i see no reason why burn in would be fixed. but dumb fanboys like you are going to dfefend and fall for everything. People said the exact same thing abotu galaxy S4 in comparsion to galaxy S2 but as you can see S4 STILL has those burn in issues.
My S4 Amoled display still looks great.
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Not sure what you're burnin' (pun intended), but the HD screen on my Note 3 is still flawless. Other than the abused screen protector on top of it. I've learned to not jump to conclusions on tech boards from either posters or "journalists".
yeah, I agree with you. I will never buy a device with AMOLED again. My Galaxy S2 display looked horrible too after only 1.5 years. even if you don't get any real burn in the display still wears out uneven which results in contrasts being tinted. basically every greyscale has a green or blue tint on my S2. Even my 8 year old smartphones with TN display don't have any burn in like this.
and don't listen to those goddamn idiots saying "the screen on my S5, note 3 or whatever is still flawless". I met plenty of people like that and when I actually checked their phone's screen I saw that it was actually very worn out (tinted contrasts and mild status bar burn in).
Yeah, Super AMOLED is definitely my favorite.
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I'm more inclined to believe AnandTech's tests. In those, the iPhone 6 and 6+ win in all but one category (and in resolution). So either Display Mate is lying (they usually favor Samsung phones) or the S6 is better than the Note 4, not tied with
Could you post a link to the report? I went to the site to look for it and couldn't find it very easily. However, one thing I did notice was a large amount of stories related to Apple (8) compared to everything else including Samsung (2, not counting a PC RAM entry).
Visiting the DisplayMate website, we see no mention of brands AT ALL on their home page, only endorsements from 14 universally recognized organizations praising the value of their testing.
So...really I don't think I need the link after all.
Really now your comparing the iPhone screen to the note 4 it's not even close three different firms did a iphone samsung text and samsung won get over it !!
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Links?
Holy crap!!! I re-read your comment again and hadn't realized that you STILL think only 15% of IP6 sales came from iphone owners, and the rest from other platforms.....dude seriously, you gotta try a bit harder. Read the corrections that the WSJ article provided about cook's statements. You know, the one YOU CITED! It's below. It'll all start to make sense to you. I would hope aleast....smh, am i talking to a brick wall?? Lmao
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The Samsung certainly won in my own personal eye test. But even so, having a device with a display as good as the iPhone 6+ is a blessing.
Now, don't disrupt this forum with facts! :)
Well well well...if it ain't Mr. 85%, lmao
Remember your adamant, ignorant claims that 85% of iphone 6 buyers were coming from other platforms??? llllllmmmmaooooo , you should check your source next time. Guess what it says at the bottom of that WSJ column you gave dummy? Here's your copy/paste straight from the WSJ
Corrections & Amplifications
Apple CEO Tim Cook said roughly 15% of the current iphone userbase has upgraded to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus since their release in September. He also said the majority of new iPhone purchasers who previously owned other smartphones were changing from phones running Google’s Android operating system. An earlier version of this article incorrectly quoted Mr. Cook as saying fewer than 15% of recent buyers were upgrading from older iPhones and that the majority of buyers were people who switched from Android. (Jan. 29, 2015)
Lllllmmmaaaaaoooo. Guess you better check your sources if your brain is incapable of using common sense, jackass.....oh, sorry to disrupt you with some facts...lololololololololololol
http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-apple-keep-up-its-growth-spurt-1422493028
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I guess that you feel brave hiding behind a keyboard, cussing at people, calling them names, and generally berating them, without fear of getting your face smashed in. Makes me think that you are still in your teens.
As far as Tim Cook, he said that 15% of SALES came from iPhone owners, not 15% of the userbase. He stated that it was a very small FRACTION of the base, and 15% is not a small fraction. If you could do math, you would realize that your thinking doesn't hold water. By your thinking, that would only leave about 15 million iPhone sales to new customers, and sales in China DOUBLED, which would be more than that 15 million.
But, continue with your childish cussing and name-calling, and no one will take you seriously anywhere that you post. Have a blessed day.
lololololol.....if you knew me, you wouldnt be saying a goddamn thing. lmao FYI, yes, he was talking about the IPHONE userbase !! and yes, roughly 15% of the iphone users. Which at launch in September was an estimated 404 million users. Active IOS devices account for over 750-800 million total.
Yes, apples sales in china essentially doubled. Do you have any clue how many iphone 4, 4s, 5, 5c, 5s users there were in china as of september of last year??? Alot bruh
Since you told me to have a blessed day, i feel inclined to apologize for the name calling. But your adamant stubbornness to not except the facts the other day was just mind boggling, lol
so ya, Apple sold 75 million IP6's. at that point. roughly 60 million of them were already iphone users ( i said roughly). couldve been 50 or 55 million, im just going by what analysts released recently. I gave you the corrections your sources provided about what cook said, theres nothing more to it than that..
have a blessed day
I would expect performance to be just as good as the Note 4, since they are presumably based on the same AMOLED tech and one is not a generation ahead of the other.
Galaxy S6 Display Better Than Note 4 Certainly
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How so explain, it's the same tech, the panel on the S6 is smaller "which means more pixels per square inch".
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It's the same quality display except I would say the note 4 is slightly more enjoyable because of the size being larger and better for reading text and watching videos.
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From a technical standpoint, I can see no advantage to more pixel density than the Note 4 already has. It in itself is overkill. Heck, my old eyes can't even see a pixel on my Note 3 with regular HD. But the use-ability factor of the 20% larger screen ... definitely.
Although, I've never seen the S6 in person.
The Droid Turbo has the same 2K resolution as the Note 4 and the S6 series and is Super AMOLED but nobody seems to talk about the Turbo's display like they do with Samsung phones . Is Samsung using a better version than Motorola ?
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Yes
Yeah, I think they're not selling the latest gen AMOLED to third parties. And I also think they're keeping the knowledge about the software calibration stuff to themselves.
It's because samsung uses they're own Samoled display tech bruh....it's significantly better than standard amoled displays. Samoled is Pretty much the best display tech there is right now
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Samsung makes the AMOLED displays for all major smartphone brands, I think. Including Moto and Microsoft.
(Edit, forgot Nokia isn't in the game any more... :D )
I'm not sure who they supply exactly when it comes to amoled, I'd have to do some research. But I'm almost certain that they do supply motorola, and I'm sure nokia/MS has probably been getting their WP displays from them the last couple years. They're own Samoled display tech is exclusive to samsung devices though obviously
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The Droid Turbo has a Super AMOLED display. That's a Samsung brand name.
Actually I believe the turbo uses an amoled display, not a super amoled display. Big difference, and it shows. Go to a Verizon store and look at the turbo vs the note 4... Massive difference all around.
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Nope, just a standard AMOLED display. Did you just make that up or something? Lmao
Wait, I remember you adamantly defending S-voice on here not too long ago, lmao. That was one of the most idiotic opinions I've heard on here in some time, lmao
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Lol Hans is known for his idiotic opinions around here
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Says the idiotS who aren't even able to google a simple fact before making an arse out of THEMselves.
Ok I'll concede that Verizon lists the screen as a super amoled, however it's quite clear it isn't up to par with the super amoled included on the note 4 or s6/edge... Either way you annoy me. Peace.
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Hans......boobie......why must you be such a moron?? Lmao I don't give a f*** what Verizon lists it as, along with the other 10% of sources that list the turbo as having a "super AMOLED " display". (The other 90% list it as "Qhd AMOLED")... LMAO. The turbo's color reproduction is far less accurate, and it's dimmer. Some colors are over saturated, and others undersaturated. It's essentially the same display that went into the moto x only with a higher pixel density. Any of the countless reviews will emphasize how superior samsungs SAMOLED tech is not only to the turbo, but all others as well.
You're a samsung fanboy, so atleast try to get ur head outta ur aarse and stop preaching the vast benefits of the abomination that is S-voice (lmao)..... and quit looking for an argument saying how on par the Turbo's display is to the Samsung's high end SAMOLED tech. It makes you seem confused..... lllllmmmmmaaaaaaooooo
http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Motorola-DROID-Turbo-vs-Samsung-Galaxy...
http://www.androidorigin.com/motorola-droid-turbo-vs-samsung-galaxy-note...
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I know this is wasted time on a clown like you. But you are aware that Samsung has been making SAMOLED displays since the GS2? Fecking eejit.
Actually, "Super AMOLED" is a registered trademark of Samsung...
Which means only they can use this name for marketing and such. And when they provide the same displays to other manufacturers, those other manufacturers cannot use that name, but instead just call them "AMOLED".
Anyways, samsung are selling motorola older revision displays than whats found in the Note 4, which explains the difference.
The color reproduction has been measured to be very similar to the display found in the Galaxy S4, and the diamond subpixel arrangement is exactly the same.
I thnk Motorola uses AMOLED technology...but not by Samsung. The Super AMOLED thing comes from Samsung
yes. they aren't samsung "super amoled" may be from sharp or japan display, they aren't even using diamond pixel
Samsung always gets the latest display tech put into their phones. Even an AnandTech review of the Turbo basically stated that the display panel it's using is likely a slightly older gen amoled based on how it did in some tests they conducted
The display on the Droid Turbo and Nexus 6 are Amoled, not super Amoled.
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Because it uses older AMOLED, that is not good.
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AFAIK the 2K AMOLED displays that Moto is using on the Turbo and Nexus 6 are older versions of AMOLED.
Not as accurate colors and more power hungry.
Probably why the Note 4 gets better battery life than the Nexus 6 even though they have the same specs.
Yes they are they invented it so that's why there the best I have the note 4 edge love it
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I love the display on my Note 3. But my wife's Edge and son's N4 both look even more appealing to the eye. Display tech has improved a little since my first handheld. The Palm IIIxe with monocrhome 160x160 LCD with selectable green backlight. LOL!!! I fell in love with mobile over that device. But wow, what a difference 17 years makes! Looking forward to 2031.
If there's one thing Samsung consistently gets right on their flagships, it's the display.
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That really only started with the S5. Before that, color accuracy was not that great.
Exactly!
And It's why I'd really like to see a Galaxy Nexus 2 or something like that.
Google Play Edition Galaxy S5/6
+1 Amoled display tech has taken a step ahead of the rest. There's a reason samsung only uses their amoled tech for their own devices and not for others companies they supply. It's phenominal
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And the camera.