Originally Posted by semianonymous

I'm defending nothing. I'm giving you the straight facts: My phone is a Nexus One, and it doesn't have banding at even a fraction of that level. Not even close. I don't know if Displaymate has a bias, but that poorly performed test certainly doesn't make me think they are pro-android, and Gizmodo has a very obvious bias.

Regardless, based off of what I am looking at right now, I'm inclined to think they either they had a bad model, performed an illegitmate test for intentionally bad results, or simply did a piss poor job of a test on accident.