The Note's screen looks so much more pixelized here than the SGS2:
http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/articles/48137-image/100-Crop-Red.jpg
Yet phonearena says it's not troubling?
As sjael highlighted from the PhoneArena article you won't even be able to see that much detail looking at the screen from even a couple of inches from your face. Those pictures are blown up from a "microscope-like" (I apologize for lack of a better term) lens.
There are two reasons why I think this is being made more of an issue than it should be:
1. Pentile is getting a bad rap because of some poor implementation of the structure on some phones recently. Not all Pentile screens are created equal. Some recent Motorola phones have had pentile screens & they look terrible, while the original Galaxy S that came out last year which is also pentile, had one of the best looking screens at the time. In the end you just have to look at the screen for your self & see if it looks okay to you. I haven't seen the screen myself, but as I said before every hands-on & preview that I have read have not said anything bad about how the screen actually looks. The only negative that I have read was in that FlatPanelHD.com article that I posted in the OP. The only really bad thing he could come up with that didn't involve looking at the screen under a microscope was that off-angle viewing appeared with a blueish tint. I don't know about you but I can live with that.
2. Anal people that always have to have the latest technology exaggerating the issue. These are people that are more concerned about the underlying technology being "technically" inferior to some other alternative regardless of whether the actual difference in real world performance is negligible. It's kind of like people that if there was a quad-core phone available right now, they would be upset if a new phone came out that was "only" dual-core, while dual-core phones still aren't even being fully utilized. You are not gonna see much of a difference in real world performance between a quad-core & dual-core phone outside of benchmark tests right now. That same logic feels that the Note is unacceptable because it has a pentile HD Super Amoled screen, when possibly it could have had a RGB HD Super Amoled plus screen. A true RGB matrix screen would probably look a little better than the pentile screen, but that doesn't mean that the pentile screen still wouldn't look amazing in person.
Thanks, didn't notice that particular line.
By the way, are pentile screens the ones that are more prone to burn ins (ghosting images) than the super amoled plus screens, or is it the other way around. That I'm also concerned with.
I believe this is another case of worrying about how something technically works as opposed to real world performance. Yes technically Oled displays are susceptible to burn in over time, but were talking a lot longer than the 2-3 years that most people keep their cell phones. I used my Omnia HD, which has just a regular Amoled screen, for about 2 & a half years before replacing it & I never noticed any degradation in the quality of the screen over that time. I've watched hundreds (maybe even thousands) of hours of video on that phone. I'm talking full length movies. And it still looked as good as the first day I got it. I think burn-in may be more of a concern when talking about televisions & PC Monitors, because one would expect to use those devices for 5 to 10+ years & may experience degradation near the end of the life of the device.