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441 PPI Screens Reportedly Too Much For Samsung To Handle

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by Rudy Rivapalacio on
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We typically caution against getting overly excited about rumors so it’s only fair to advise against getting too down about them as well. The Samsung 4.99-inch full HD AMOLED screens that seemed like a sure thing just a few days ago don’t feel quite so certain today. The latest round of Samsung super-screen rumors, courtesy of DigiTimes, suggest the company is having a hard go of producing 441 PPI (pixels per inch) screens for its handsets. They cite an industry insider as attributing the problem to “lacking high-end technology.” The unnamed source said Samsung had even sought help from 3M with LITI (Laser Induced Thermal Imaging) technology to no avail.

As most tech blog readers will tell you, you probably shouldn’t take a DigiTimes rumor to the bank but they have nailed a few early rumors in the past.  And no, I’m not making a broken clock is right twice a day joke either… or am I?

Source: DigiTimes

Samsung Galaxy S I, II And III Go Head-To-Head In A Display Shootout

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by Roy Alugbue on
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The Samsung Galaxy smartphone series has presumably gotten better over the years, right? Well as far as processing speed, memory and improved UIs are concerned, then absolutely. But what about the AMOLED displays—- has it gotten better over the years? Well, yes and no. As seen in a Galaxy shootout thanks to some curious individuals at DisplayMate, there are some interesting findings about the displays seen over the years. For example, the color gamut across all devices fell between 136 – 139 percent. Typically a color gamut too large is visually worse than a small color gamut and results in what’s considered to be an ‘irregular display’ where the Green is more saturated compared to Red or Blue, as seen in the Galaxy S line of smartphones. In addition, there were additional findings such as each device having an unusual color shift when the displays on each device at an extreme viewing angle. Specifically– DisplayMate highlights the displays of the Galaxy I, II and III “take on a distinctly strong blue color shift and cast” when being viewed at an angle of greater than 45 degrees.

On the flipside— it’s not all negative findings. The running time of the displays on the devices has improved which each passing generation. When running at maximum power in Airplane mode, the Galaxy S I sees a run time of 3.2 hours,  the Galaxy S II sees 4.4 hours and the Galaxy S III sees an astounding 5.6 hours.

The study and conclusions are certainly a bit on the technical side, but they’re both nonetheless interesting as heck. If you’re interested in checking out additional or more specific details, make sure to hit the source link which you can find below.

source: DisplayMate

Rumored Samsung Galaxy S III Press Render Photo Surfaces

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by Roy Alugbue on
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Boy, it seems like the Samsung Galaxy S III leaks just keep pouring out today, doesn’t it? We just heard some news earlier highlighting Samsung may introduce the Galaxy S III sometime next month, but now we have more juicy info to share with you all. As you can see in the screenshot above, another alleged official rendering of the upcoming smartphone has been leaked out and as you can see, it sure is a beauty. One thing you’ll notice right away from the latest leaked render of the device includes only 3 capacative buttons including the Home button being featured in the middle, which seems to fall in line with another leaked renderings we’d seen earlier in the week… and the week before that. So much for the smartphone having an all-screen display as we’d previously seen before.

Complimenting the leaked rendering are the latest leaked internal specifications of the device. For starters, there is a 4.7-inch HD Super AMOLED Plus screen with 720p resolution in a thin profile— 8mm of total thickness. Also, rumor has it there will be a a quad-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage and a 12 megapixel camera with full 1080p capable of recording at 60fps along with a 1,750mAh battery.

Keep in mind this is still speculation, so the rendering and subsequent specs may be incorrect. But you have to admit, this latest rumor sure does give a strong indication of what we can expect from the ultra-hyped smartphone, doesn’t it?

source: pocketnow

Galaxy Nexus Sees Improved Screen Performance

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by Roy Alugbue on
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The Galaxy Nexus smartphone no doubt has a stunning and sexy display to the casual Android user. However, there are some crafty individuals who believe you can always squeeze out just a little more from what you have. That’s why XDA Forums member mumchristmas was out to improve the display for interested Galaxy Nexus owners. He was curious of the actual screen performance of the phone, so he decided to do some investigating. Using the Voodoo Screen Test application, a x-rite i1 Display 2 Color meter and HCFR software, he found some startling results:

  • “Average Gamma value is about 1.9, far from the ISO stand 2.2. So the color is just too bright (I’m not saying screen brightness).
  • The shadow part (0-40% gray level) of 3 color curve were almost out of trim. In another words, inaccurate color balance.
  • As the color unbalance. The color temperature is starting from lower than 5500K to 6500K, which the ISO stand is 6500K at any color level.”

To sum it all nicely: the results are underwhelming to say the least, but he decided to do something about this. While he couldn’t change the gamma value, he fixed the color balance and color temperature by using a custom kernel with ColorControl function and added a new file to the Android structure. The outcome was a much better color balance. Exciting news indeed. Be sure to hit up the XDA Forums at the link below to find out even more specifics of this impressive find.

source: XDA Forums
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ASUS Padfone Formally Announced At MWC, Due To Arrive In April

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by Roy Alugbue on
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We knew the Padfone was on its way to MWC, but ASUS has finally unveiled its new jewel of a smartphone to the masses. That means that sexy smartphone (and ”tablet” accessory) is officially on its way. Some of the noteworthy features of the Ice Cream Sandwich-powered device includes: 

Of course the specs are sexy and all, but you all are waiting for the really interesting aspects of the device, right? In case you’ve forgotten, you have the ability to turn this svelte phone into a tablet, thanks to a handy (optional) accessory— a dock which allows you to turn the device into a tablet. The optional tablet dock will not only allow you to view your content on a bigger screen, but you will also find some extended battery life. Among the other coveted accessories that will be a available will be a keyboard and wait for it— a stylus headset which performs double-duty as a stylus and you guessed it— a headset.

The phone is set to arrive in April, but ASUS stops there. There is no additional word on which countries/markets it will launch first nor do we know how much the phone and its accessories will run for, though it’s probably going to cost you a pretty penny. You now know the phone is on its way and you’ve seen the specs, now why don’t you hit the break to see the full press release from ASUS? This will be able to hold you over in the meantime.

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The Samsung Galaxy SII HD Won’t Be Released in the UK

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by Jack Holt on
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The other day we told you about how the Galaxy S II HD was possibly arriving in the UK here sometime soon. The phone, made its debut in South Korea back in Semptember and other markets were waiting to get their hands on the device. I am sorry to say that those who were hoping to see this beauty in the UK will be disappointed as Samsung officially told the web site recombu that the UK will not see it in an official capacity.

So as of right now the 4.65 inch HD (1280×720) Super AMOLED LTE device will only be seen in South Korea and in North America as the Galaxy SII Skyrocket HD announced by AT&T at CES this year. With that I am sorry to say that you won’t be getting this beast of a device any time soon unless you are in these areas. We will keep you updated if that changes. Stay tuned!

[via recombu by unwired view]

 

Hands-On With Sprint Version Of Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Video)

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by Roy Alugbue on
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Over at the Sprint event held at Tao in the Venetian last night, our own Rob Nazarian had some one-on-one time with the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Sprint. As perhaps highest-profile member of Sprint’s LTE family, it has the same awesome features that we’ve already seen on the Verizon version— just on the NOW Network this time. Yes friends, you can see the gorgeous 4.65-inch Super AMOLED screen with rich colors and deep blacks, 5MP rear & 1.3MP front-cameras and that pure, untouched Android 4.0 UI, but now in Sprint flavor. Boy, talk about being at a Sprint event while getting to play with the Galaxy Nexus being a pure Google experience. Check out the hands-on video below of the phone in action. Oh and make sure you stay tuned with us for our continuous CES coverage.

 

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus to sport a PenTile display as expected,

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by Robert Nazarian on
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There seems to be a lot of talk about Samsung going with a PenTile display with the Galaxy Nexus, but we reported this almost a month ago. The news originally broke when Samsung announced the Galaxy S II LTE HD. They described their screen as Super AMOLED without the “Plus”. Unfortunately they don’t have a Super AMOLED Plus HD screen yet, but most likely they will by the middle to later part of next year.

For now, it will be a PenTile display which has gotten a lot of negative press based on Motorola handsets like the DROID X2, DROID 3, and DROID Bionic. I’ve heard nothing but good things with the Galaxy Nexus Screen, so I’m personally not concerned. Samsung knows displays, and I think the difference will be marginal to most people. There will be those that will scrutinize it to the fullest and find fault, but out of the box, the Galaxy Nexus 4.65-inch HD (1280 x 720) display will be sure to delight. If you want to know a little more about PenTile, then hit our previous post from back in September.

LG’s True HD IPS Displays – Better than Super AMOLED?

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by Jim Farmer on
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The LG Optimus LTE recently launched in Korea. While a noteworthy device, the screen is what will really catch your eye. That’s because the 4.5” screen on board packs a 720×1280 resolution, and on top of that, it’s powered by True HD IPS technology.  The True HD IPS display “offers advanced resolution, brightness and clarity and shows colors in their most natural tones, as they were meant to be seen.” For those of you thinking that LG’s IPS display doesn’t hold a candle to your Samsung’s Super AMOLED screen, you may be interested, read disappointed, to find studies suggest the IPS screen to be better in basically every category. For example Intertek — an international product testing and certification agency — just published a report suggesting IPS technology to be superior to AMOLED in terms of color accuracy (3x more accurate), brightness, battery efficiency (624mW of power as compared to 1,130mW) and performance. According to LG, True HD IPS display takes the viewing experience on mobile handsets to the next level by offering:

  • More information at a glance with genuine 1280 x 720 HD resolution and 16:9 screen viewing without  distortion, which are the same standards used in the television industry;
  • Sharper and crisper text thanks to 329 ppi real RGB resolution;
  • True natural colors that are the most comfortable to eyes;
  • Automatic color adjustments applied by LG’s exclusive Mobile HD Graphic Engine;

[via lgnewsroom]

Samsung Droid Charge officially available April 28th

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by Jesse Bauer on
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It’s official folks, Verizon will be launching the Droid Charge on Thursday April 28th 2011. This will be the first from Samsung which puts a huge pack of technology in an LTE device. The Samsung Droid Charge also has a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus display, 8 megapixel rear camera with LED flash, 1.3 megapixel front camera, 1 GHz processor, HTML 5 web browser capabilities, and full 4G/LTE network connectivity.

As a bonus, those who purchase the Droid Charge will also get a free $25 Media Hub credit from Samsung for movie rentals or purchases. To see more on that promo, click here.

So many new devices….so little money after buying 3 of them!

Click here to view the full Press Release.

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