We just couldn't leave this
face-off of superscreens alone, and went back for another bite at the cherry. Admittedly, we found out the
Galaxy S had a browser-specific brightness setting that we hadn't maxed out before setting off our camera hounds, so we've gone and remedied earlier comparison shots with the gallery below, and just as a bonus, we've now also run a HD video clip on both phones. This was to see how the Hummingbird and A4 SOCs, considered
close siblings, handled some taxing video work and also to again compare performance deep down on the pixel level. What we can tell you now is that both handsets chewed through the
1080p HD clip with ease and that both gave results we have no hesitation in describing as sublime. Click past the break for the up close and personal video comparison action.
N.B. -- We ran a 1080p clip on both phones' respective YouTube apps over WiFi. Although we're certain from the quality of the video that it was at least 720p, we can't say for sure that it was the full 1080 enchilada.
posted June 26th 2010 3:10PM
What ever happened to AMOLED anyways? I thought it was world beating stuff.
Now they have Super AMOLED. AMOLED did not last long. LOL
What next? Heavy Duty Super AMOLED?
The iPhones screen is awesome, once you get past the yellow skidmarks that 100% ruin the image. :)
the thing is NO ONE IS GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THEIR PHONE THROUGH A FUCKING MICROSCOPE. compare the 2 phones side by side at a NORMAL FUCKING VIEW and the Galaxy S BLOWS THE IPHONE AWAY! WHAT THE FUCK ENGADGET!?
LOL Engadget fail.
Your comparing a 4" with a 3.5" with different resolution.
How about comparing a Samsung Wave 3.3" 800 x 640 Super AMOLED screen to your beloved iPhone 4 engadget. This phone's pixel density should be really close to the iPhone 4's Retina display.
@ConceptVBS I tested both phones side by side the other day and it's close. I saw the Wave before the iPhone 4 and was completely blown away by its colours and resolution, I didn't believe that it would be possible for the iPhone to improve on Waves screen. I was very wrong. First of all, in terms of resolution, it isn't even a contest.
The clear advantage of the iPhone 4s retina display is especially evident when browsing the web, I went to an image and text heavy site like ign.com to see what the difference would be. The iPhone 4s edge definition is nothing short of astonishing, text is rendered to magazine like quality, and even when a web page is zoomed out to display the full page text is still very readable, on the Wave that definitely isn't the case. Text on the wave is good but falls waaaaay short of the standard set by the iPhone 4.
Another area where the iPhone 4 beats the Wave is on screen brightness. The AMOLED screen on the Wave is capable of very good brightness levels, but gets no where near the level of eye popping brightness the iPhone 4 achieves. Colour is an area where it will boil down to personal taste, in my opinion the iPhone 4 produces far more accurate colours than the Wave. Colours on the Wave tend to overly saturated and over blown, especially oranges, yellows, reds and blues.
The iPhone 4 seems to have a better grip on colours and has a better definition of what colours should look like.
In the end though they're both amazing screens, but I would have to give the edge to the iPhone 4.
@sonola777
"Another area where the iPhone 4 beats the Wave is on screen brightness. The AMOLED screen on the Wave is capable of very good brightness levels, but gets no where near the level of eye popping brightness the iPhone 4 achieves. "
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Have a look at the white on the google web search page. The S Amoled is 'BRIGHT' the Iphone4 is muddy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMsl7ceJuK4&feature=player_embedded
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Colour is an area where it will boil down to personal taste
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Not really, it's about colour accuracy. Personal taste - i mean, people can prefer an orange sepia over their screen, it's makes no difference to the ability or inability of the screen to recreate the intended colours - that's an objective thing.
Lcd's not only, to most tastes, fail to recreate colours accurately, but to measure instruments fail in comparison with oled.
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Colours on the Wave tend to overly saturated and over blown, especially oranges, yellows, reds and blues.
The iPhone 4 seems to have a better grip on colours and has a better definition of what colours should look like.
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Colours should look like what they do look like. Nothing more or less. Lcd puts everything through a blue rinse, creating a grey haze muted effect. It's not a property of the colours, but a property of an artificial effect glazing over the screen.
The design styled green in that last shot (if you have a crt, best to have a look on there) is _supposed_ to be a vivid green. Personal preferences can make someone prefer the mudgreen of the Iphone, but they can't back up someone arguing that's the way it's supposed to look (top down). A more subtle, but debatable, colour is in the sky blue reflections on the CAD window - they are definitely 'sky blue' on the S Amoled while they are close to a shade of 'grey' on the IPhone's lcd (Retina).
You can't demo something that close, of course the iPhone's gonna win, it's freakin' 960x640! Do a real test where you back up at least 1 foot, like a normal person would use the phone. Then you'll see the difference in screen size and how both screens look pretty much the same. Oh, and maybe you should take them in sunlight, and see how the iPhone fares. Fanboys...
I was just reading comments from both Apple and Samsung. Apple said viewable from 178degree while Samsung said 180degree.
Correct me, what can you see at 180degree? i.e. 180degree meaning the device is at eye level...
@kevchew ha lol, wooow you can whatch your phone at 180 (cant find a degrees button) Degrees. thats magic, the screen must pop out slightley and slightly turn towords you.
This comparison has to be joke because there is no way Engadget expects us to take this seriously.
Engadget has managed to raise the bar on the pro-apple bias since the release of the ipad, and now the iphone 4. The smear campaign on the EVO after the iphone release was petty and now these latest comparisons to the Galaxy S were terrible.
no wonder apple moves so many units - they have sites like CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget and many others in their back pocket.
What's with all the extreme close-ups? I don't use a phone with it pressed against my nose. Can you please show some comparisons at normal viewing distance, so we can compare things we care about like color saturation, black levels and perceived sharpness.
@SteveyAyo I agree with you, HTC probebly have already done that, and if not they will do, but its just my own preferences really, i know the arguments wont be silenced ever but i just wish they would just do these little imorovements on it because since 2007 all i have had is an iPhone (2G, 3G, 3Gs) so im pretty much bought and dont wanna go to andriod because i like iPhones, probably same with android people, I do like the phones HTC and Samsung are coming out with i think there awsome but im an iPhoner and i dont think any amazing andriod phone will change that because i have to live with the phone for 18 months usually. and the iPhone gets good updates and loads of good apps to change what you can do on the phone, maybe the same with andriod. Cheers
Do you think Endgadget could invest $10 and use a freakin tripod to shoot some non jittery video?!
Also, who is going to hold the screen right up to their eyeballs to view video? Use a realistic shot & show the full phone, not a super close-up of the screen.....
Bill
Ahaha, that screen looks absolutely puny compared to the S.
Especially the browser comparison; the S looks beautiful and you can see so much. On the iPhone, there's huge bars at the top and bottom, and then combined with a small screen, yuck. Pixel density is nice, but it's just a cheap gimmick to cover up the fact that the screen is so small.
Thanks for being so misleading Engadget...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMsl7ceJuK4&feature=player_embedded
As you all can see, the Galaxy S clearly has a far superior screen.
I like both phones but come on Engadget this is a silly way to compare these screens. Any non fanboy would agree that the samsung wins this because it's screen is bigger and is more vibrant than the iphone's. The dpi is a absolute non issue so why did you just focus on that? The resolution of the samsung is perfect and it seems to me that Apple's decision to go with a screen with higher dpi is purely for marketing reasons because it makes no practical sense at all. I compared the samsung to a calibrated monitor and the colors are really very good, I'd say that color, contrast and resolution are perfect for a device like this.
I have 2 macs at home so I'm not a fanboy I'm just calling it like I see it.
The only advantage iphone has is pixel density.
BIG BUCK BUNNY by the blender team! FINALLY!
On the same screen hight, iPhone has much smaller width, so it trims the image. Why you did not show the same frame of the movie to make the comparison?
Does anyone at Engadget know the difference between an LEDTV and an LCDTV? IHave you heard of a thing called contrast ratio and why it's the # 1 selling point of high end flat panel televisions, and why infinite contrast ratio is better than 100,000:1 or whatever those low-tech LCD's are claiming? Look at youboob and search for "Samsung S8500 AMOLED display compared to iPhone 3G" for an example of a 1st gen AMOLED trouncing the iPhone from people who know HOW to make a comparison.