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The panel used on the Droid is of the TN kind, so the viewing angle is nowhere near as good as the iPhone 4 -- the perspective difference between your left and
by tumult 16y ago
The panel used on the Droid is of the TN kind, so the viewing angle is nowhere near as good as the iPhone 4 -- the perspective difference between your left and right eye is also enough to make the screen appear different to each, which makes it harder to look at and resolve detail. The iPhones up until 4 are all like this, too, which is one of the reasons why the difference between them is so striking.
The Droid is a cheap plastic gizmo. Two of my friends have had theirs slowly break from everyday use. If you have to baby your gadget, it will never really break into the mainstream and make a difference.
(I still like AMOLED more.)
- rglullis 16y agoI never noticed the difference in perspective you are talking about, but still: what about the screen from the Nexus One? Same resolution as the Droid, ~250 ppi and AMOLED. Yeah, one can find "Oh, shiny!" articles about it, but no one wanted to turn that into a absolutely remarkable feature. As for the Droid quality: I bought mine in November and it's still going. Dropped it a couple of times (what caused a tiny crack on the corner, can't even see it if I don't point it out) and the keyboard "right-alt" key forces me sometimes to press it twice. I wouldn't say that the phone will outlive me, but it is far from being a "cheap plastic gizmo".
- modeless 16y agoI don't know; people were pretty excited about the AMOLED screen. The excitement was tempered, however, by the fact that it's useless in daylight. Also, people liked the industrial design of the Droid. Take this quote from Engadget's review: "an industrial design straight from a gadget enthusiast's fever-dream"; and this: "they've made a device which is truly lustworthy, even next to the best efforts of Apple, HTC, and Palm."
- cheald 16y agoSpeaking as a Nexus One owner, it's not quite useless, it's just harder to use. Froyo's automatic brightness adjustment makes it quite usable in direct sunlight, though it's obviously not going to compete with an LCD. However, the display is just beyond gorgeous, and given that I work very hard to stay _out_ of the sun, it's a great fit for me.
- tumult 16y agoI have a Nexus One. The screen is really nice, I like it. But it does suck outdoors. Probably not a winner for most consumers.
- henrikschroder 16y agoThings I love about my simple Nokia phone: 17) The reflective screen works really well in direct sunlight. You lose colours, but you can always see what's on it, regardless of the lighting conditions.
- saint-loup 16y agoI was told that the display of the Nexus One is not so great, with problems like oversaturation and bad color reproduction : http://www.displaymate.com/Nexus_iPhone_ShootOut.htm http://www.displaymate.com/Nexus_iPhone_ShootOut.htm (this is from the same guy who criticized Jobs for his presentation of the iPhone 4 display)
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoI note elsewhere in the thread that high pixel density is something I feel Apple was forced into by their business model, then marketed very strongly as a must-have feature. I've felt the same about their one-piece aluminium enclosures and their new unbreakable glass designs. Again, durability is great, if it came for free then I'd take it, but you're going further and telling me that all the cameras, gameboys, walkmen, cell phones, PDAs, netbooks etc. that I ever owned were never "mainstream" because of some Apple marketing that doesn't even apply to the 100 million plus portable devices they themselves sold over the last few years. It just doesn't add up. There's nothing inherently wrong with plastic or rubber devices, Apple just doesn't like the associations. They'd rather have titanium that flakes off than plastic that didn't.
- DannoHung 16y agoGameboys are nigh onto indestructible, so that's a bad example.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoNigh on indestructible plastic. Beige plastic at that. Which makes it a good example of the point that you don't need to accept Apple aesthetics to make durable and/or highly popular products.
- DannoHung 16y agoI thought you were talking about durability not being really important to devices that you want to use every day...
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoNo, I was pointing out that this wasn't something that was invented by Apple and revealed to the world last month and wasn't incompatible with plastic, a key component of basically all the portable devices I listed. The post I responded to called a phone "cheap plastic" as if this was somehow unusual, and a fatal flaw, yet my iPhone has a plastic back and seems to be doing fine in durability and popularity.