I haven't seen much discussion on the screen in forums, but I've seen reviews (specifically AC and DL) that comment that it's excellent and competes pretty against a Samsung display. For me, however, that is not the case.
I have put my new pixel (small) up against a 5x, a note 5, and a gs7. There is a subtle green tinge to my pixel that isn't present on any of the other phones. This gets noticeably worse if I look at the screen from even a small angle off center in any direction. Droid life specifically mentions that the grays are accurate on the pixel, which serves as an indicator of its color accuracy overall, but the funny thing is that grays the worst offender for me. I used the dark gray you find in chrome when you close all tabs to compare, and it's incredibly green in comparison. It just looks really dirty next to other screens, like an old amoled display from 2012.
It gets worse from there. When I'm looking at text there is a strange halo effect around it. This is so bad with some fonts that it gives me a headache just to look at it. It almost looks like an oversharpened effect. My friend went into development settings and turned on high contrast, and that's exactly what it looks like on my phone, except all the time.
I love this phone otherwise so far, but if this is what the screen is like it's a deal breaker. Does anyone else have any of these problems, or do you think the display is as great as the reviews say?
Just to throw this in, my entire phone just froze for about 3 minutes while writing this, got extremely hot, and rebooted on its own. I had to retype this all. Not cool...
I have put my new pixel (small) up against a 5x, a note 5, and a gs7. There is a subtle green tinge to my pixel that isn't present on any of the other phones. This gets noticeably worse if I look at the screen from even a small angle off center in any direction. Droid life specifically mentions that the grays are accurate on the pixel, which serves as an indicator of its color accuracy overall, but the funny thing is that grays the worst offender for me. I used the dark gray you find in chrome when you close all tabs to compare, and it's incredibly green in comparison. It just looks really dirty next to other screens, like an old amoled display from 2012.
It gets worse from there. When I'm looking at text there is a strange halo effect around it. This is so bad with some fonts that it gives me a headache just to look at it. It almost looks like an oversharpened effect. My friend went into development settings and turned on high contrast, and that's exactly what it looks like on my phone, except all the time.
I love this phone otherwise so far, but if this is what the screen is like it's a deal breaker. Does anyone else have any of these problems, or do you think the display is as great as the reviews say?
Just to throw this in, my entire phone just froze for about 3 minutes while writing this, got extremely hot, and rebooted on its own. I had to retype this all. Not cool...
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