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Old 09-18-2012, 12:58 PM  
xenigo
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The deal breaker for me with the GSIII and all of the Galaxy phones for that matter, including the Galaxy Nexus... is their AMOLED displays. People rave about them, and people seem to think they're great... but they're absolutely terrible IMO. AMOLED screens make every color fluorescent. I want super accurate color.

The biggest problem I have with them is burn in. I don't think most people realize how bad the problem actually is. You know that status bar at the top and nav buttons on the bottom of ICS? Well... how would you like to see those no matter what you're looking at? LOL

I had a $900 Pioneer head unit in my car a while back and that had a gorgeous AMOLED screen... guess what happened to it? All the soft controls at the bottom became one solid blur.

The IPS display in the iPhone will never have that problem... because the backlight is behind the LCD and not a function of the panel itself. And it's color accuracy is spot-on. I think the guys on the tech forums wishing for giant HD AMOLED television screens are completely fucking nuts.

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