As crisp and vibrant as AMOLED and Super AMOLED smartphone displays are, they roll off the assembly lines with a pretty big design compromise: most of the components in the marketplace right now make use of a little visual trickery called PenTile whereby green subpixels occur with greater frequency than red and blue. Meanwhile, traditional displays (CRT, LCD, plasma, you name it) typically use one red, one green, and one blue subpixel per pixel, and the end result is that AMOLEDs tend to be a little grainier by comparison at a given resolution. OLED-Info points out that Sammy's new Super AMOLED Plus displays appear to have solved the PenTile problem, instead using something called Real-Stripe -- effectively meaning honest-to-goodness RGB pixels, which explains the company's claim back at CES of a 50 percent boost in subpixel count. Interestingly, Real-Stripe requires more space per pixel, which could be why the Galaxy S II and Infuse 4G are 4.3 and 4.5 inches, respectively, a pretty healthy hike from the 4-inch mark they'd settled on with last year's original Galaxy S models. 'Course, none of this puts us close to the 7 or 10 inches we'd need to make a tablet work -- but we know they're cranking on that already.
This was a well known fact for most of us not blinded by fanboyism, never liked the Galaxy S display anyway, too dotty
ReplyDeleteI am amazed I looked through 4 pages of comments with no one has mistyping pentile as penile, either on accident or on purpose.
ReplyDeleteNow to solve the broad daylight issue.
ReplyDeleteLike... turn off the sun?
ReplyDeletewhats next
ReplyDeleteSuper Amoled Plus 3D
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ReplyDeleteSUPER AMOLED PLUS ULTRA GIANT SUPREME TO THE FIFTH POWER... now with Penile Pixels.
ReplyDeleteYay Samsung...
filmantopia 2 hours ago
ReplyDeleteUm, I'll wait for Super AMOLED Plus Pro, thanks. Any more words they can add after that would just be a bonus.
I'd rather wait Super Ultra Retia AMOLED Plus Ultimate Edition.
ReplyDeletePentile Matrix is garbage. Everyone who got scammed into a phone with one of them should file a class action suit. The Galaxy S screen is a sad joke next to older LCD panels with real RGB.
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