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If you put a LCD display next to a OLED display, the difference is striking. Pretty much every Android phone has a better display, and is easier on the eyes.
by bgorman 7y ago
If you put a LCD display next to a OLED display, the difference is striking. Pretty much every Android phone has a better display, and is easier on the eyes.
- dogma1138 7y agoWhich $400 android phones (with warranty and service and guaranteed updates for 4-5 years) come with an OLED these days?
- bgorman 7y agoThe Pixel 3a has an OLED display, and probably the best update guarantees you can get on Android. Why are you expecting Android phones to come with a 4-5 year warranty? The iPhone comes with a 1 year warranty
- scarface74 7y agoHe said “guaranteed updates” not warranties.
- kalleboo 7y agoDidn't the Pixel 1 only get updates for 3 years?
- morsch 7y agoAnd that's pretty much as good as it gets. With the notable exception of community maintainance, eg. Lineage OS.
- hocuspocus 7y agoIn practice nobody cares about the Android version or upgrades. People just want to install the latest apps, which you can do for a very long time even on an outdated entry-level Android phone.
- kube-system 7y agoDepends on the app and how outdated we're talking about. You can buy new Android devices on the shelf from major retailers that won't run some mainstream apps.
- kohtatsu 7y agoFWIW the iPhone 5s (Fall 2013) is still receiving patches on iOS 12, last one was March 24th (iOS 12.4.6).
- vinay427 7y agoThe updates just seem to matter less on Android, at least these days, with the exception of security issues. On iOS it feels like updates "unlock" new functionality, whereas on Android they've seemed to add random fluff or change up the UI in non-consequential ways. Apps are already much more flexible on Android, and the Play services largely get updated anyways, so it's just less of a concern for me to not have OS feature updates.
- gruez 7y agoHow did we get from OLED > LCD to "Pretty much every Android phone has a better display"? Are we including $200 phones as well?
- hocuspocus 7y agoI bought a Galaxy A40 to my dad for less than $200 (VAT included) last summer and it has an OLED display. Outside Samsung it might be a bit harder to get OLED in this price range, but at least you're not stuck at 1334×750 pixels, which was already pretty lame in 2014 when the iPhone 6 was first released.
- dzhiurgis 7y agoBrightness is what matters for 99.99%, not the coverage of sRGB gamut that matches 100% for studio printing. I just wanna be able to read a message while I'm outdoors. Older LCD's would really struggle here.
- sjwright 7y agoHard disagree. I love my OLED TV and I appreciate its vast superiority over LCD TVs. But I upgraded my iPhone this cycle and agonised between the 11 and the 11 Pro. I wanted the OLED screen to be way better and it just wasn’t. Maybe the difference matters to some people in some environments, but for what I use a phone for, it was borderline indistinguishable.
- vinay427 7y agoI'm not going to bother with the Android and iOS comparisons here, but if you're curious try a flagship Samsung phone (Galaxy Note or Galaxy S series are widely available). For the past few generations the displays have felt like they're genuinely ahead of the curve based on what I was used to.
- sjwright 6y agoA colleague has an S10 which I've spent a lot of time using. It's certainly a massive improvement on what typical Android screens have been like in the past. It's about on par with the iPhone.