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iPhone 5 Is The Most Disappointing iPhone Ever?
bloody000:
I never paid much attention to the details of iPhone 5 and when I did just now, I found out that the display(and the new iPad's display) is extremely accurate out of the box, in fact it's likely to be better than what you're looking at right now. as someone who owns a wide gamut monitor(big mistake, should've gone for the sRGB 2490wuxi2) calibrated and profiled with a colormunki photo this is the kind of thing I'd love to see spreading to all displays, especially TVs.
http://www.displaymate.com/iPad_ShootOut_1.htm
http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_2.htm
megido-rev.M:
Possibly they were calibrated beforehand as part of the fabrication.
FlyinPenguin:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on October 19, 2012, 07:27:31 PM ---Possibly they were calibrated beforehand as part of the fabrication.
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Agreed.
Not to mention that these "lab tests" sounded completely biased and mostly looked at paper specs vs real world comparisons. They gave off quite the fanboy vibe.
Watch a 720p video on the S3 and you will find it looks gorgeous in true 1280x720 resolution. Coupled with a 4.8" display, it creates a far more cinematic experience then you will ever get on the iPhone.
bloody000:
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on October 19, 2012, 07:27:31 PM ---Possibly they were calibrated beforehand as part of the fabrication.
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Yes, it was mentioned in the articles that they were factory calibrated. That's something you don't often see, especially not on mobile devices.
--- Quote from: FlyinPenguin on October 20, 2012, 04:29:13 AM ---
--- Quote from: megido-rev.M on October 19, 2012, 07:27:31 PM ---Possibly they were calibrated beforehand as part of the fabrication.
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Agreed.
Not to mention that these "lab tests" sounded completely biased and mostly looked at paper specs vs real world comparisons. They gave off quite the fanboy vibe.
Watch a 720p video on the S3 and you will find it looks gorgeous in true 1280x720 resolution. Coupled with a 4.8" display, it creates a far more cinematic experience then you will ever get on the iPhone.
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Just because you don't understand or care about the test results doesn't mean they're biased or wrong. You can say you preferred a highly saturated and contrasted display but facts are facts. Anandtech's tests also came up with similar results: here and here.
I also find it ironic that you are playing the "who cares about numbers it's what I like that matters" card which is a classic Apple fanboy argument.
kureshii:
--- Quote from: FlyinPenguin on October 20, 2012, 04:29:13 AM ---Not to mention that these "lab tests" sounded completely biased and mostly looked at paper specs vs real world comparisons. They gave off quite the fanboy vibe.
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Throwing in accusations of biasness in lab tests without understanding what they do? Insinuating a "paper spec" comparison instead of real-world tests without actually reading? I wonder who's giving off fanboy vibes here ...
The biggest irony? Here's a teardown paper spec comparison done by IHS-iSuppli, a market analyst firm, based on paper specs (without doing any tests): http://www.isuppli.com/Display-Materials-and-Systems/News/Pages/Galaxy-S-III%E2%80%99s-Display-Specs-Beat-iPhone5%E2%80%99s-But-Does-it-Matter-to-Users.aspx
--- Quote from: IHS ---The iPhone 5’s display is just 1.5 millimeters thick, a 0.6-millimeter reduction from 2.1 millimeters for the iPhone 4S, according to measurements from the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service. Meanwhile, the color gamut of the iPhone 5 has risen to 72 percent of the NTSC standard, compared to 50 percent for the 4S.
Even so, this falls short of the Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S III, which sports a display with a thickness of just 1.1 millimeters and a color gamut with full 100 percent NTSC, as shown in the tables below.
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The S3 is the winner on paper. Too bad a greater color gamut doesn't necessarily translate to better color accuracy in real life.
As for the real-world tests, bloody000 has already linked DisplayMate's shootout test results, measured with a color measurement and calibration device. CNet reports the same results via a color measurement test as well, so it’s not a one-off observation either.
And if you had really read the test results (or even just the summary), you'd have noticed that DisplayMate did viewing tests (i.e. by human eye), which concur with the measurements.
Reading further into the article, DisplayMate does point out the S3's strengths—black levels. It just doesn't have anywhere near the brightness level or color accuracy of the iPhone 5. This isn't a shitting parade on the S3. One can like the S3 and still report these findings.
Where's your biasness now?
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