Would you have noticed any display problems if the media hadn't made an issue of it

[Mike Dee]

Well, got mine yesterday ..very mild blue shift especially laterally. To call it blue I would actually be lying. Its more like a change in brightness. Vertically it has a slight blue hue. Based on my copy there is nothing wrong with this screen as far as the blue shift condition is concerned.
I received the update but I left my colors normal. I don't like saturation but I have to remind myself that my last couple of phones were LCD and maybe it's just what I'm used too.

 

[Aquila]

I'm not sure why we keep having these threads

Perhaps something was left unsaid the first 3 dozen times?

 

[revtech]

Well, got mine yesterday ..very mild blue shift especially laterally. To call it blue I would actually be lying. Its more like a change in brightness. Vertically it has a slight blue hue. Based on my copy there is nothing wrong with this screen as far as the blue shift condition is concerned.
I received the update but I left my colors normal. I don't like saturation but I have to remind myself that my last couple of phones were LCD and maybe it's just what I'm used too.

So based on your unit and your standards and preferences you'd say the 2 XL is a go?

 

[phelme]

my 2 year old Lumia 950 XL (w/OLED) has the blue shift.. which I NEVER NOTICED until all this Pixel 2 XL hubub.

 

[Aquila]

my 2 year old Lumia 950 XL (w/OLED) has the blue shift.. which I NEVER NOTICED until all this Pixel 2 XL hubub.

Yeah I went back and found it on all my old OLED's and found it on those. The Pixel XL (og) shifts sorta green, the Nexus 6P is sorta yellow, Moto devices go blue, etc, etc. I also went and checked out devices in stores, and Samsung's recent devices do the same thing, but the colors appear more red. Apparently this is part of the nature of being an LED based device, though some of the Pixel 2 XL's do it at lesser angles than some of the other devices. It also might just be more noticeable because of the cooler display that Google went with. It's already pretty blue (the white point) compared to warmer displays.

 

[phonejunky]

Of course I noticed the problems. My screen is crap compared to my 3yo Nexus 6.

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Nexus 6 top, Pixel 2 XL bottom. HDR video.
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Nexus 6 top, Pixel 2 XL bottom.
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wow that's bad. I don't get how people can't notice that. If I sat that next to my iPhone I'd laugh. And that's not a iPhone vs Pixel thing, I'm just using the phone I own as an example as did this person who posted these images. How can't you notice that my goodness.

 

[zhelf]

There are people i have seen here and on Reddit with legit issues between dead pixels and black bars. My unit looks great, the blue shift doesnt bother me unless i look for it, I have not noticed the burn in even when i go looking for it and i have to look for it as i never really display a full white or gray image on screen. So if i were not on the forums and reading about the issues my only issue with the display is the colors. And hopefully when i get the update that will fix that.

 

[Torisen1]

I would not have noticed on mine, which I received yesterday. I think it's a great screen.

 

[torbach1]

I have a feeling that there are some units with screens that are fine/acceptable and some with screens that are not. The two I've seen (I don't own one) were both great, no burn in, and you really had to shift to an angle that wouldn't be used in order to see any blue shift. If I had one of those instead of my Note 8, I would not be unhappy with the screen.

 

[phonejunky]

There are people i have seen here and on Reddit with legit issues between dead pixels and black bars. My unit looks great, the blue shift doesnt bother me unless i look for it, I have not noticed the burn in even when i go looking for it and i have to look for it as i never really display a full white or gray image on screen. So if i were not on the forums and reading about the issues my only issue with the display is the colors. And hopefully when i get the update that will fix that.

It’s the people in the forums who are buying the pixel. This isn’t a mass marketed appealing device. Tech savy people buy it.

 

[sixty_four]

It’s the people in the forums who are buying the pixel. This isn’t a mass marketed appealing device. Tech savy people buy it.

Hmm, I'm not sure I agree with this completely. The Pixel 2 might not be as popular as Samsung or Apple offerings right now but I would assume non-enthusiasts are contributing to sales.

Maybe a more accurate statement would be, "It's the people in forums who are buying the pixel and over-analyizing their purchases into the ground and after they're done over-analyzing, they analyze it some more to find other things wrong with it." But that's true for just about for every device on these forums

 

[Chex313]

I'm sorry, but as written this is simply wrong - the colors on the Pixel 2 XL are far closer to accurate than they are on almost all other default Android OLED screens. This was confirmed by the sites that actually measured them with spectrophotometers (even Vlad Savov's piece for The Verge admitted that their color calibration tech indicated they were accurate, Vlad just didn't like them).

Now, if you and your wife have an aesthetic preference for over-saturated colors that's totally fine - my wife does too in fact, and she'd be happier with the screen of her Pixel 1 for that reason. But the Pixel 2 XL colors are not "off", they are showing the colors as they were created originally on color calibrated screens in the first place.

In point of fact you can replicate the colors of the Pixel 2 XL screen very closely by switching to non-default settings in other phones, including the sRGB setting on the Nexus 6p or first gen Pixels (currently removed if you've installed the 8.1 beta), or use the "Basic" setting on Samsung phones, but for those products it was felt that many people prefer oversaturated screens, so they don't make accurate color the default setting (this is also true of TVs in showrooms - TVs are notorious for being overly bright and overly saturated on display, because people gravitate to them in side-by-side comparisons).

I'm not trying to criticize your preference - what you like is what you like, and that's fine. I think it makes sense for Google to offer more choices of screen color tuning (as they are now). But "accurate color" means something pretty specific to those who have to do color management, and you don't get to hijack the term just because you prefer inaccurate colors.

Yeah at this point, not liking over saturated colors, makes us the odd ones...LOL

 

[javierlp]

I received my P2XL a couple of days ago.

The only issue I'm having with the display is sometimes while scrolling trough a chat or an article, the text gets a weird blurring effect.

Never noticed this on my Nexus 6p.

Is this normal?

 

[DoctorOctagon]

I received my P2XL a couple of days ago.

The only issue I'm having with the display is sometimes while scrolling trough a chat or an article, the text gets a weird blurring effect.

Never noticed this on my Nexus 6p.

Is this normal?

Definitely not normal. On my Pixel 2 (small one) there is absolutely no blurring when scrolling text in Chrome etc.

 

[javierlp]

Ugh....

The thing is that it's really noticeable.

I love the phone, and the honest truth is that I ain't really looking for issues. Is just something that's pretty evident when scrolling.

 

[Mike Dee]

Ugh....

The thing is that it's really noticeable.

I love the phone, and the honest truth is that I ain't really looking for issues. Is just something that's pretty evident when scrolling.

Not seeing that at all and I've never heard about that symptom on any phone. I would return it.

 

[Aquila]

Not seeing that at all and I've never heard about that symptom on any phone. I would return it.

Yep, if your phone is defective, return it and get one that isn't defective or get a different phone IMO.

 

[Clancy3434]

All the Strum und Drang in the media seems completely overblown. I'm looking at my 2Xl side by side with my 6P and I don't see any significant differences, if anything I like the 2XL slightly better. I never would have seen the blue shift if hadn't looked for it, nobody ever looks at their phone at a tilt and even when I deliberately tilt the phone the blue shift isn't unpleasant, it wouldn't have occurred to me that this was a problem.

Does anyone really think that the display is a problem?

Not at all.

They only time I notice the blue tint is when u think about it and go, hey self, let's see if that blue tint thing is still a thing.

I had a Note 5 prior to this and when the is tint hysteria broke I titled the phone and noticed it turned blue... Something I never noticed in 2 years.

I actually prefer the more life like colors to oversaturated as well, so no issues there.

Had a slight Android Auto issue that I was able to fix with an uninstall/reinstall.

Short of that I think the only issue I've had is that sometimes if the thing you need to press on the screen is all the way against the edge it doesn't respond right away... but I'm not sure if that's a screen issue or a case issue.

 

[Aquila]

Not at all.

They only time I notice the blue tint is when u think about it and go, hey self, let's see if that blue tint thing is still a thing.

I had a Note 5 prior to this and when the is tint hysteria broke I titled the phone and noticed it turned blue... Something I never noticed in 2 years.

I actually prefer the more life like colors to oversaturated as well, so no issues there.

Had a slight Android Auto issue that I was able to fix with an uninstall/reinstall.

Short of that I think the only issue I've had is that sometimes if the thing you need to press on the screen is all the way against the edge it doesn't respond right away... but I'm not sure if that's a screen issue or a case issue.

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