Much has been made of the Nexus One's cutting-edge Organic LED (or OLED) display, and how its emissive-display technology is a leap beyond the maxed-out static-backlight LCD display used by the iPhone. But is cutting-edge (i.e. a work-in-progress) actually better than an older, established, and stable technology?
That's the question DisplayMate Technologies attempted to answer in a head-to-head display shootout between the Nexus One and iPhone. The results were eye-opening, to say the least.
Displaymate first compared how each phone displayed high-rez 24-bit image files (including Mars photos from NASA). The Nexus One consistently showed false contouring, image noise and banding, and artifacts, while the iPhone's display closely matched that of a studio reference monitor.
Even more shocking was the discovery that the Nexus One's screen supports only 16-bit color with 32 (red or blue) or 64 (green) intensity levels — common on cheaper, low-end devices, but totally unexpected in this reported "superphone." By comparison, the iPhone (like computer and HDTV screens) supports 18-bit color, which with dithering can emulate 24-bit color — and a full 256 intensity levels, for a smoother, more realistic image. And the Nexus' high-pixel-density OLED display, seemingly stunning on first view, proved to have many color and gray-scale accuracy errors, due to a combination of processing errors and poor resolution scaling.
The comparison report is itself still a work-in-progress: the first two parts (detailed reviews of the Nexus One and iPhone screens, respectively) are online, and a third part (a detailed point-by-point comparison) is still pending. Nevertheless, it might serve as a wakeup call to Google to get a "Nexus Two" into the retail pipeline, stat.
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Another Apple Nuthugger Fanboy. I do think anyone will be doing photo quality editing on these devices. Vibrance, brightness, and resolution will prevail 8 out 10 times on hand held devices.
There’s no comparison if you hold in hand both the Nexus and IPhone, like I did. The Nexus is much brighter and capable of displaying much smaller fonts.
This is FUD. So is all the other crap saying iPhone has a superior screen.
It is an unfair compassion. They should have used half Nexus one display, because the resolution is higher. just compare it with two real pictures and you’ll see the difference. If you do the same test with an old TV and LCD, you will see according to this test, old TVs will win.