I guess if you are able to say with a straight face that an opinion could possibly vary as to which looks better in the picture above, then we have nothing to debate.
That picture is a red herring. It is one little crop taken so close as to approximate looking at your phone from 4 inches away. If you want to argue that, have at it. I have stated multiple times that I agree that the pentile looks worse in that image yet you keep hanging on it while ignoring everything else I am saying.
Display quality is subjective. Claiming anything differently is silly.
You obviously came here looking to pick a fight with anyone that isn't willing to say that pentile is always and forever going to be crap next to a traditional LCD matrix. Fine you've said your piece. My original comments to the OP on this subject was little more than to tell the OP that they should wait until the phone is in stores to look at it for themselves if they have doubts. That's the extent of the position I'm taking on the GSIII screen.
You obviously want me to say that pentile sucks and so this screen will suck. Sorry, I'm not going to say that as I haven't even seen the thing.
But in the spirit of giving it one last try, here is a picture I took a while back of my daughter. (I did these up quick and dirty for a photography lesson I was giving so they aren't directly applicable here, but they are what I have on dropbox at the moment.) They're all the same image, but processed differently to mimic the colors and tones from different imaging systems.
Which one is "best?" You tell me.
I know which one is color correct to the original scene and will match a quality printout from any pro printing lab, so I know which one is "correct." But even then, I wouldn't say any one of them are any "better" than the other when just talking about Joe6Pack viewing them on their uncalibrated and profiled computer screen at home. Same thing with phone displays.
Now speaking of digital pictures, my home/desktop display is an eizo CG243W. It's only a 24" display at 1920x1200. By looking at just those specs its actually quite tame by a lot of people's standards. If you were to look at it, you would probably find it quite drab, not very vibrant and rather lacking in brightness. All those conditions that you might find objectionable I find desirable because I have it specifically setup to mimic what a picture would look like if it were printed on Kodak Endura Luster paper. So you see, in subjective terms I can find the output of the screen outstanding while you can sit there and think it looks poor, and we can both be right!
Now, here's an image of my basement.
It's properly calibrated to REC 709, the light output is also properly adjusted to the SMPTE recommended 15 ft-lamberts (yeah, some of us
do break out our light meters to gauge the quality of a screen...) When watching in a totally light controlled room, it looks awesome. But if you were to turn the lights on it would look very dim and you'd probably think it looked poor. So which is right? Both!
Now it looks bang on amazing when playing back Blu Rays, which are properly encoded at Rec 709, but it can look slightly off when running DVDs that are output at Rec 601. So does that mean it is or isn't correct? Neither. It is what it is because display output ultimately is subjective.
Not only that, but I tend to prefer the colors cranked up a little more when I'm playing Playstation on it because it makes games pop a little more. So if I wasn't able to adjust the colors on it (like you can't on cellphones) would the display be good or bad? Probably depends on how many movies you watch vs. how many games you want to play. Subjective with no one right answer.
Now am I saying all these things and showing you my basement to try and brag? No (maybe.) What I am trying to convey is that I've spent a couple of decades studying and dealing with display technology. I've used *a lot* of different type of displays with more acronyms than I can remember. I've yet to find anyone that is seriously into any of the visual hobbies that would stand up and make a blanket claim that one technology is always better than another.
Anyway, if you want to really talk about the subject, that's fine. If you just want everyone to agree with you that pentile or amoled always sucks, we can leave it right there.
-Suntan