Samsung Galaxy Nexus vs Samsung Galaxy SII - The Ultimate Rants Thread

[khawarspirit]

lol dude LCD screens are much brighter than AMOLED screens, its one of the advantages of LCDs. You are talking about saturation which has nothing to do with brightness.

And yes I agree with you on the PPI part, my 233 PPI non-pentile phone looks razr sharp to me people are just obsessed with the magical 300 number.

Technically brightness is how many nits the light output is, sure. But AMOLED screens have lower reflectivity than LCDs and hence are brighter for outdoor use, or under harsher lighting, etc. A 300-something nits AMOLED would be 'appear' brighter than a 400 nits LCD. Saturation is something else entirely.

 

[Thinker]

Technically brightness is how many nits the light output is, sure. But AMOLED screens have lower reflectivity than LCDs and hence are brighter for outdoor use, or under harsher lighting, etc. A 300-something nits AMOLED would be 'appear' brighter than a 400 nits LCD. Saturation is something else entirely.

Yes thats true but LCDs have now gotten nearly twice as bright as SAMOLED screens and in my personal experience give better sunlight legibility. Like my nexus S has slightly better sunlight legibility than the galaxy S3, I compared hand to hand. My phone is the SC-LCD version and has an absolutely maddening level of brightness.

 

[khawarspirit]

Yes thats true but LCDs have now gotten nearly twice as bright as SAMOLED screens and in my personal experience give better sunlight legibility. Like my nexus S has slightly better sunlight legibility than the galaxy S3, I compared hand to hand. My phone is the SC-LCD version and has an absolutely maddening level of brightness.

That is quite interesting... My sis has an HTC Rhyme and the G.Nex is better outdoors than that, and the reviewers all said that G.Nex wasn't as bright as it should be. I suppose not all LCDs are the same either. HTC One X, I hear, has an incredibly good screen for outdoor use as well.

 

[Lord Ammar]

lol dude LCD screens are much brighter than AMOLED screens, its one of the advantages of LCDs. You are talking about saturation which has nothing to do with brightness.

And yes I agree with you on the PPI part, my 233 PPI non-pentile phone looks razr sharp to me people are just obsessed with the magical 300 number.

That's because the magical 300 number makes a hell of difference. Especially when viewing text

 

[smaaz]

G.Nex screen isnt perfect to be honest, but deep blacks make it really good as with all amoled screens, man 720p screens are good but still qHd and wvga resolution is 4" screen isnt bad in real life it dosnt makes that much difference, I still cant figure individual pixels in iphone 4 but I can in g.nex coz of its matrix. SIII screen is total different level. Hell even original Galaxy S screen still looks good.

 

[Lord Ammar]

G.Nexus screen is terrible. It's a first generation 720p AMOLED screen and you can clearly see the effects of that

 

[smaaz]

G.Nexus screen is terrible. It's a first generation 720p AMOLED screen and you can clearly see the effects of that

Yes agreed, there is clearly ghosting but still its better then alot many. Overall the phone is great if coming to original question I do alot of browsing and no wvga or qhd screen satisfy the need. SII still a great phone with great screen but when it comes to text or browsing either iphone or this G.Nex.

SIII and Iphone5 great but do I need an upgrade not at all. JB is just perfect and i am loving it

 

[SHKHAN]

@OP try getting a used One X if you can

 

[Thinker]

That is quite interesting... My sis has an HTC Rhyme and the G.Nex is better outdoors than that, and the reviewers all said that G.Nex wasn't as bright as it should be. I suppose not all LCDs are the same either. HTC One X, I hear, has an incredibly good screen for outdoor use as well.

HTC phones prior to the one series have an incredibly reflective screen thats why the outdoor visibility sucks.