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Review: iPhone 4 Retina Display vs Samsung SuperAMOLED Display

on July 21, 2010 – 7:50 am10 Comments

The phone display is something we stare at constantly every day. We were blown away by the Samung Super AMOLED display when we saw the same at Mobile World Congress this year.Then came the Retina display from Apple on the new iPhone 4. Both the phones were set to 100% brightness with power saving off on the Galaxy S. Find out which display is better in this unique review. We also have a video comparison embedded below.

Color Reproduction

The Galaxy S produces more accurate colors compared to the Retina display in which the images are slightly cooler. But still is pretty close.

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Text

Text seems crisper on the iPhone 4.

Icons

The icons on the iPhone 4 looks much more pleasing to the eye. You can find out the reason below.

The SuperAMOLED display seems we have a wider reading angle.

The Retina display seems to be much brighter than the SuperAMOLED Display. You will realise the positive effect of this only with a naked eye.

Here is the video we promised !

We can’t really say which display is better ! The iPhone 4 display is good for text and icons while the SuperAMOLED is good for the colors and the size.

You can vote for the best display below

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A team of mobile geeks

  • Prikshit

    galaxy s is looking better in video……….

  • aryan

    leaving the text version on iPhone 4 Samsung claim is definitely true that super amoled is far better than that of retina diplay

  • Satya

    Both are best at their business

  • Douglas Moran

    With a survey like this, one wonders how many of the votes for the Samsung are because people really believe it’s better, and how many are “anti-Apple,” “I’ll vote against *anything* those jerks in Cupertino produce” votes. Not saying people consciously make the decision that way, but I can definitely see it having an effect.

    Me, I think they both rock.

    • http://www.fonearena.com Varun Krish

      thanks for the comment Doug. I believe Apple found a lot of new haters by goofing up the Antenna problem. We could barely spot a difference between the two displays . It was very close

      • jdev2010

        Realizing that the Galaxy S had just come out for AT&T, getting discouraged by all the negative press, and realizing that I could turn my phone into an Apple store, and walk over to an AT&T store and get a Captivate the same day, I got VERY, VERY close to doing so — that is until I went and visited AT&T first to see the Captivate in action.

        It’s got 3.5 pages full of bullshit spam apps preinstalled, and the pixels on the screen are the size of watermelons. 800×480 is a terribly lacking resolution even in comparison to the only slightly higher resolution of 854×480 that is also a standard Android app size.

        I’m really glad I tried the Captivate first. It’s speedy, but it’s absolutely no good w/out FroYo, and w/out root to delete the spam apps.

        • Din

          If the pixel size in the galaxy is like a watermelon in the iphone 3gs must have been like a medicinal ballon.
          why the iphone fanboy talks without knowledge, you must accept the iphone is not the best technology now and won’t be anymore.

  • aryan

    both r best ,if samsung wants it can eaisly do that as they also one of best technology in lcd also but they stuck in making advancing Amoled technology and they have also powered apple in past , 3GS, for example, runs a Samsung S5PC100 processor and known best gaming device that time and in reality it super amoled that is scoring high in terms of refined quality but retina display in terms of pixels details as 960×640 pixel
    326 pixel per inch
    800:1 contrast ratio

    But what Super Amoled offers is
    mDNIe(Mobile Digital Natural Image engine)
    Best outdoor readability
    Wider viewing angle
    No motion blurs on video play
    100.000:1 contrast ratio
    Longer battery life (no backlight) And
    The contents used in display are classified as video, graphics, characters. The contrast ratio is the most important factor in video because typically the full video screen was offered about 30 percent of brightness in white base.

    The human eye has far superior ability to identify objects in the dark place than in the bright sport. And the human eye can identify the things within certain distance even in the dark places and could not get tired with a long time use in the dark places.
    So a high contrast product is much better for the human eye
    Cant wait for SamsungS2 with Super Amoled 2 .

  • Ari

    Samsung all the way. Held the mobile last weekend. The iPhone 4 is good man. Respect! But the Samsung display is kick ass over sunlight too. One doesn’t realize immediately though.

    AMOLED is going to be fun with SLCD coming in too.

    Can’t wait until one of these manufacturers provide flexible displays!

  • Nutesh

    Well both hav good displays but in the race of two one has to win n other has to loose… According to my experience superamoled is clear winner against retina display in all respects. The only plus point in iphone4 display is its resolution which is higher than resolution of galaxy S…..