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Pixel 3 XL’s Much Improved Display is a Samsung OLED (Updated)

Kellen October 16, 2018

The Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL feature AMOLED displays that are dramatically improved over last year's Pixel 2 XL. You all remember the drama that surrounded the Pixel 2 XL's blue shifting and possible burn-in, right? This year, those complaints haven't...

Watch Samsung’s “Unbreakable” OLED Panel Survive a Beating by Hammer

Kellen July 26, 2018

Yesterday, Samsung showed off a supposedly unbreakable OLED panel for smartphones. It's a flexible OLED with a plastic substrate, covered by a plastic cover window that allows it to bend and flex in ways that your typical glass-covered OLED panel wouldn't be...

LG V30 is Getting a Big Ol’ 6-Inch, Curved-Edge POLED FullVision Display

Kellen August 2, 2017 49

LG announced this evening that its "next major smartphone" is going to rock one of its new next-generation FullVision POLED displays. They are talking about the LG V30, of course, which should be announced at the end of August at an event during IFA. In the...

Google Reportedly Really Wants LG to Make Them OLED Displays for the New Pixel Phones

Kellen April 10, 2017 72

On a recent DL Show, Tim and I talked about how frustrating it was that LG continues this slow (read: non-existent) move into OLED smartphone display panel production. We brought it up because Samsung moved into the space years ago and has become the king, yet...

Galaxy S8 Hype: These Samsung AMOLED Display Videos Might Give Us a Taste of the Near Future

Kellen January 13, 2017 59

As case manufacturers are doing their best to hype the Galaxy S8, maybe we should continue to ignore them and instead go to the source for a view of the future. Two videos from the Samsung Display YouTube channel are making the rounds today and they show...

DisplayMate: Galaxy S7 has the “Best Smartphone Display”

Kellen February 23, 2016 92

In recent years, Samsung has become the king of smartphone displays, according to display guru, Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate. If you look back around the time of the Galaxy S4 and Note 3, you could start to see the evolution of AMOLED panels paying off...

Galaxy S5 Display is the Most Accurate and Best Performing Screen Ever Tested

Kellen March 31, 2014 187

Display expert and guru of all things pixel, Dr. Raymond M. Soneira of DisplayMate, released his latest shoot-out of top tier devices, this time focusing on the Samsung's new Galaxy S5. As noted in his report, Soneira talks about Samsung's move this year to...

Samsung Reportedly Working on QHD Display for Smartphones, UHD in the Works As Well

Eric January 28, 2014 152

Never let it be said that the Android spec war is over. Samsung is still working on stockpiling new weapons in its quest to continue to dominate the world's Android market. The latest news from Korean sources report that not only is Samsung working on a QHD...