Yet another big reviewer is saying that the 2 xl has a terrible screen. For everyone who loved mkbhd's review please take a look at Austin Evans review. He is just as popular and knows his stuff. Now tell me how is he any less qualified than mkbhd?
Austin Evans youtube review
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I mean what's your point? Should we just watch tech reviews feverishly to tell us how to spend our money or should we try the phone for ourselves and figure it out? Ok so if we are taking score we are 1 all?
Qualified? I am not so sure any of them are qualified. These people are great at making videos and producing them, they certainly take the time to do it well. But qualified to say "hey this screen is crap"? Not really. You just gotta be your own person and try it for yourself and stop listening to what everyone else says about everything.
My point is that this isn't just some made up story. And just because mkbhd didn't have a problem with it that doesn't mean that there isn't a problem with it. I tried it out myself before all these reviewer s made their videos and people still want to make excuses.
I have no excuses.. I just don't have a problem with it from looking at it at Verizon. I'll have it in a couple days and that may change but I'm going in with an open mind unlike many that take "reviews" as gospel
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To be honest I am shocked so many want to pit Reviewer VS. Reviewer as if they write the book on what is good or bad. They don't -- They are people just like everyone else here. They simply use a phone and give their opinion on it. That is why for phones that don't have major issues (or recalls or whatever) you could easily have one say "I loved this phone" and one say "It wasn't bad but I hate this and this and this" ... Because reviews are just opinions of the reviewer.
I absolutely agree. I just don't like when people dismiss other's points of view just because they do not agree.
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Just watched it, and the video of his device doesn't support his claims. Watching it on a color-calibrated IPS monitor the colors on his device look...accurate, just like others (Phone Arena, The Verge's image editor) have said when they actually measured the device. Also, the blue shift in his video looks essentially identical to what I see on my Nexus 6p screen.
Maybe his video isn't conveying what he sees (lots of factors can impact the final video) but it looks like what I've seen in other reviews, and like what I've seen in person - a moderate blue shift at fairly oblique angles, and colors that are spot-on.
I get that people have aesthetic preferences for color saturation that don't necessarily match what a properly calibrated display shows, and it'd be nice if Google provided a saturation-torch-mode for those that like it. And it could certainly be that some devices have worse blue tints at a less severe angle, I've just not seen any evidence of it either in person or in a video.
Maybe his video isn't conveying what he sees (lots of factors can impact the final video) but it looks like what I've seen in other reviews, and like what I've seen in person - a moderate blue shift at fairly oblique angles, and colors that are spot-on.
I get that people have aesthetic preferences for color saturation that don't necessarily match what a properly calibrated display shows, and it'd be nice if Google provided a saturation-torch-mode for those that like it. And it could certainly be that some devices have worse blue tints at a less severe angle, I've just not seen any evidence of it either in person or in a video.
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big reviewer you say? As a 20 yr actual former technician in wireless I've never heard his name once...
And something tells me that if he only had positive things to say then you would have heard of him. Lol im done with this seriously. The only purpose of this thread was to show that there are many opinions about this phone and that just because his name isn't mkbhd that doesn't mean his points or anyone else's aren't valid.
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I understand that not everyone will like everything.
I understand that there are those who think that the 2XL's screen is simply unacceptable.
What I don't understand are those people who will not rest until we all agree with them that the screen is crap. It's not enough for them to have their opinion, they have to come in to a Pixel 2 forum and continuously post about how crappy the screen is. They won't rest until we all knuckle down and submit to their opinion.
We get it! You don't like the phone, you think that no phone anywhere made by anyone could ever be even remotely acceptable unless the display is absolutely without flaw!
Now do us all a favor and move on!
I understand that there are those who think that the 2XL's screen is simply unacceptable.
What I don't understand are those people who will not rest until we all agree with them that the screen is crap. It's not enough for them to have their opinion, they have to come in to a Pixel 2 forum and continuously post about how crappy the screen is. They won't rest until we all knuckle down and submit to their opinion.
We get it! You don't like the phone, you think that no phone anywhere made by anyone could ever be even remotely acceptable unless the display is absolutely without flaw!
Now do us all a favor and move on!
I checked it out today fully expecting a crap display. I was pleasantly surprised. Maybe living with the crap LCD on my v20 has lowered my expectations but i could easily live with the xl screen, especially when Google let's us change display settings.
It's no note 8 screen, obviously, but it's a decent oled screen that happens to have poor viewing angles. I didn't notice any graininess or black smearing, but i think those were more prevalent in a dark room.
It's no note 8 screen, obviously, but it's a decent oled screen that happens to have poor viewing angles. I didn't notice any graininess or black smearing, but i think those were more prevalent in a dark room.
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