Accuracy of Nexus 4 display vs iPhone 4

[JoeSh]

Hi Folks
I'm a long-time iPhone user who's switching to Android. I have a Nexus 4 on order.
I'm psyched to no longer have to jailbreak my phone but I'm worried about display color fidelity.

I was just in a T-Mobile store with my hands on a display model N4. Speedy and silky smooth - no problem there. But I felt some eyestrain looking at the display. Adjusted the brightness but still present.

So I pulled out my old iPhone 4 and put them side by side on the nytimes page. N4 looked decidedly blue rather than the spot-on white I've heard discussed.

Then I brought up a photo web site whose colors I'm quite familiar with. iPhone looked spot on while N4 looked color-cast and washy.

Has anyone else done this test? Is there any way the color may have been off on the N4 display model? Are there any color calibration utilities to ensure the accuracy of the calibration?

Thanks in advance
Joe

 

[MonsieurJohnny]

The colors look more accurate on the iPhone because you're used to looking at that website on your iPhone.

 

[Daf L]

White varies around you all the time, throughout the day, in different weather, under different lights and your eyes constantly adjust to it being "white". It's what the colour temperature is for on cameras and screens. If you are used to a certain device and then go to a different one or compare it side by side then you will definitely notice a difference. That is also why decent graphic designers know all about end-to-end colour calibration and adjusting their various input and output devices to be calibrated the same and also match the print-house for the final product.

If you get a phone with a different colour display you will soon adjust to that being the correct white, unless it is well out of normal colour temperature range. Or you are particularly sensitive to preferring a certain colour temperature.