Screen

[JoJoCal19]

Like I said in an earlier post, I am beginning to believe that there are some crappy Pentile screens out there. When I saw my buddy's Bionic today it was NOT the same quality or brightness that my DX2 has. I will withold complete judegment until I get to see some other Bionics in person but I am betting that there is a quality issue with some of the pentile screens.

His phone wasn't defective. I compared the Bionic side by side with the X2 today at my VZW store and I was wondering why the X2 screen was brighter, more colorful and just a hair sharper. I guess I wasn't imagining things.

 

[Teegunn]

His phone wasn't defective. I compared the Bionic side by side with the X2 today at my VZW store and I was wondering why the X2 screen was brighter, more colorful and just a hair sharper. I guess I wasn't imagining things.

If that's the case then I will be very dissapointed and not get the Bionic. I had been excited about the very positive news/leaks and pre-release reviews, but that excitement has been very tempered now. I will wait for more hands-on info but at this point I think I may just keep my DX2 until the Prime arrives in a few months.

 

[YankeeDudeL]

It more reminds me of the old school print comic books, before the tech got all fancy. Here is an example:

In Defense of Dots: The lost art of comic books - 4CP | Four Color Process

That said, my display is using very little battery, and if it's due to the pentile tech, then I'd say its a worthy tradeoff. As someone stated above, its less apparent with some distance, but I do notice it rather easily coming from an amoled display.

That's exactly what came to my mind, actually. It's not so much that it's pixelated, it's the dots.

The original LED screens, from early-mid 2010, did in fact have a similar problem. This has since been fixed.

Newer, high quality LED screens are typically referred to as SAMOLED. SAMOLED screens are amazing and have none of the ridiculous issues afflicting the OG Incredible and Bionic.

I've got a DInc on my plan, it's def pretty pixelated. Much brighter display, but the icons and such were worse than this. My OG Droid wasn't as vibrant, but it was a much smoother display.

 

[Teegunn]

^^^ Was your Dinc one of the earlier amoleds or later lcd?

 

[HanSolo]

I walked into a Verizon store last night to check out the Bionic. I'd already decided to wait for the Prime, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out.

I'm not.

I compared the Bionic's screen to my OG Droid, and it's appalling what they're doing to you Bionic customers. OG screen blows it out of the water, and it's 2 years old! I could never get used to those stupid dots.

And if it WAS a defective screen, which I'm sure it wasn't (judging from the myriad of complaints on this Bionic forum), they shouldn't have put that handset out as a live model.

Unbelievable.

 

[cdf3]

I've been wanting a Samsung with the Super Amoled Screen, but when compared with the screen of the Droid X, the Droid X seems to do better in sunlight. If the Bionic has the same screen or perhaps better in regards to the Droid X, then I'm thinking I should go with it over the Super Amoled.

Here's a YouTube video I came across comparing the two screens:

Battle of the Screens: Super AMOLED Plus vs qHD in Sunlight - YouTube

 

[JoJoCal19]

If that's the case then I will be very dissapointed and not get the Bionic. I had been excited about the very positive news/leaks and pre-release reviews, but that excitement has been very tempered now. I will wait for more hands-on info but at this point I think I may just keep my DX2 until the Prime arrives in a few months.

If you already have he DX2 I woudnt bother upgrading just yet. But I recommend going and checking out the Bionic in person, as I did. Never base your decision solely on other peoples reviews unless there are a ton of very negative and obvious bad ones.