Samsung Galaxy Nexus comes up short on sub-pixels
Don't smile, it's PenTile
Bad news, folks. The sexy looking Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the world's first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, has an inferior OLED display.
Close-up photography of the phone's 4.7in panel taken by website FlatPanelsHD reveal the Galaxy Nexus' OLED uses Samsung's PenTile pixel layout.
A Samsung PenTile panel up close
Sourc: FlatPanelHD
That means that instead of each pixel comprising the distinct sub-pixels - reg, green and blue, mixed to generate the coloured dot you see - there are not equal numbers of each sub-pixel. Pixels share sub-pixels.
It's a layout designed to mimic the patten of sensor on the human eye's retina, but the practical upshot is less-smoothly rendered text. The layout gives white pixels a blueish tint.
Does this all matter? FPHD calculates that the Galaxy Nexus' 1280 x 720 display has 1,843,200 sub-pixels, which is exactly the same as the 3.5in, 960 x 640 iPhone 4S "retina display".
In short, the Nexus' extra pixels don't deliver a better viewing experience than the iPhone's LCD. But it's no worse, either. ®
COMMENTS
so what
I really do not care, if it is an issue to you then get a better life.
perhaps it just me...
...but all I see is a really crap camera being used, probably some phone with a lens about 2mm in diameter.
Zoom in on the actual edge of the phone (the plastic case) and you just get a blur!
Using that rubbish to try to state anything about the screen quality is just cobblers.
Just because your phone claims to be 5, 8 or even 10 megapixels does not mean the pictures are any better than a could be achieved with shoe box with a pin whole.
Quite
Mine's only Super LCD, which means nothing at all to me, and I can't see anything wrong with it.
"That means that instead of each pixel comprising the distinct sub-pixels - reg, green and blue"
Tony, you have far more serious things to be concerned with ;-)
Well, duh.
It's a Super AMOLED screen, not a Super AMOLED+.
So, when the specs came out this week, anyone who was paying attention when the Galaxy S2 came out knows that the difference a + makes is Pentile versus 'proper'.
