Galaxy Nexus Pentile is Confirmed

[kindrudekid]

Anand Tech Article Confirming that Galaxy Nexus has Pentile screen.
AnandTech - Confirmed: Galaxy Nexus Includes PenTile

 

[Scottatron]

Next you'll start a thread saying Samsung made the Nexus!

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Next you'll start a thread saying Samsung made the Nexus!

Lol. There wasnt really a doubt about this. Its not the same pentile as the motorolas. I challenge the op to take a look at it in the store and tell me it isnt a beautiful display.

 

[sushiglobster]

I don't see why we are talking about this as this is something that is already known.

Use your eyes when you try the product out. If it looks fantastic (and I'm sure it does at such a resolution as 1280x720), then buy it and be happy. If not, wait for your boat.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

This made me laugh

Engadget BS

 

[Scottatron]

Engadget need to remove Apples nuts from their mouths.

 

[companyman]

And all this hoopla over PenTile display after every reviewer on the web, who has seen it firsthand, said they were blown away at how wonderful the screen looks.

Silly.

 

[SuperTongue]

And all this hoopla over PenTile display after every reviewer on the web, who has seen it firsthand, said they were blown away at how wonderful the screen looks.

Silly.

But it says PenTile! You could tell the people here it cooks breakfast, gets groceries, and takes care of children by itself, but if you threw in the word PenTile, people would complain about it.

Such is life.

 

[revickulous2001]

Well, not EVERY reviewer on the web has raved about the display, as some previous posters have mentioned. There have been several reviewers who have complained about it. And most of the sources I've read have stacked the display up less favorably to the Galaxy S II.

Having a PenTile screen is a big deal for this phone. I'm unsure why they chose to go this route. Most likely, they are trying to keep the costs down. If that's the case, then that's perfectly understandable. I honestly wouldn't want to pay an extra few hundred dollars for this display to, both, maintain it's thinness and have an RGB display.

That being said, everybody has to realize there will likely NEVER be a phone (in a free market system at least) that will be the best in absolutely every category while still being priced competitively. That's just not feasible. So you need to consider the pros and cons of this phone weighed out against the pros and cons of other phones. For me, the Galaxy Nexus seems to be the clear winner when all things are considered.

 

[StuMcBill]

Has anyone considered that it may have been prohibitively expensive to produce an 720p Screen with a full RGB display?

 

[robrecht]

That's more or less what was said about a month ago or so. Just not technically feasible (for mass production) yet.

Thanks, Robrecht

 

[Asterdroid]

Jesus Christ people. Not this again. I read months of this crap over in the Bionic forum. At least with that device it was a somewhat legitimate concern.

Calculate the pixel density on this device. I did it once already back in the Samsung Function forum, so I won't do it again here. I'll give you a hint about the results. It's really high. The screen will look fantastic, even though it's PenTile.

Edit: Forgot to mention. The issue with Motorola's PenTile is the white sub-pixel, which this screen does not have.

 

[HawaiianLaker]

720 FTW!!

 

[tonysracing]

OK I know i'm late but......

OH NOES!!!!!!!!!11111!!!!11!!eleven!!11

 

[ottscay]

Well, not EVERY reviewer on the web has raved about the display, as some previous posters have mentioned. There have been several reviewers who have complained about it. And most of the sources I've read have stacked the display up less favorably to the Galaxy S II.

Really? Find me a review from someone who actually was there and saw it that says it doesn't compare favorably with the GS2 screen.

But it says PenTile! You could tell the people here it cooks breakfast, gets groceries, and takes care of children by itself, but if you threw in the word PenTile, people would complain about it.

I don't want my daughter to be exposed to an almost invisible grid overlay on red gradients!!!!

 

[6tr6tr]

At least it has Gorilla Glass. The Nexus S does not.

 

[Colin]

I did the math. If you go by logical pixels, the GN has the most pixels on any smartphone ever. If you go by subpixels, it ties the iPhone 4 and 4S and still beats everything else. Also, it's quite a bit higher pixel density than any other android phone, and the higher the logical pixel density, the less the subpixel configuration is going to matter.

In fact, you could probably argue that at some point PenTile actually becomes preferable to RGB because it capitalizes more on the fact that human eyes are tuned more for luminance than chrominance. Your eyes don't actually NEED all the color information in every square nearly as much as they need the luminance information. Digital camera sensors have been capitalizing on this practically since they were invented. They don't even HAVE subpixels. A 12 megapixel camera has 6 million green pixels, and 3 million each of red and blue. They just alternated R G B G and then use interpolation to give every pixel a red green and blue value. There's even been a manufacturer that actually made "full color" sensors, but in the real world they aren't much of a gain and tend to have a much lower logical resolution so they end up coming out behind.

The problems with PenTile screens are that if the density is too low it starts to become noticable, and also if the software isn't accounting for the subpixel configuration when it anti-aliases text, that can also cause weird rainbow fringes. I'd be worried about that problem if it weren't for the fact that Google spent 15 minute hemming and hawing about their tighter hardware/os integration and fonts that are "optimized" for mobile screens.

Plus, I'm upgrading from a (non-Super) AMOLED Droid Incredible. That thing had a PenTile display and it didn't even have the benefit of a much higher logical pixel density than the competition to compensate for it. The Galaxy Nexus does, so I'm pretty sure it's gonna be fine.

 

[ManBearPig618]

RBGB > RGBW. We're all good.

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

RBGB > RGBW. We're all good.

RGBG you mean

 

[ultravisitor]

Pentile screen you say?

I think I'll live and be perfectly fine with it.