The images on Thurrott's site seem perfectly fine. Looks just like my 2 iPhones at such an angle. The best thing about the Zune in most every review is the screen. People go on about it.
I'd agree that the viewing angles are poor on the ipod/iphone but normally you don't need to look at the screen at an angle.
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As for the sunlight images, both phones are in a different position in related to camera.
It shouldn't matter if the Zune's viewing angles are superior.
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Even at the same angle the iPhone probably has better light sensor anyway, automatically banging the brightness up to full. That's not necessarily representative of the screens themselves.
The output quality is the deciding factor irrespective of how it's achieved.
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The Zune's screen is far superior, check the video reviews, everyone says it.
In videos like these, the Zune screen looks great:
but my iphone screen doesn't look like the one in the video. If you set your brightness fairly low, you get pretty decent blacks. Being able to increase the brightness means it can show up better in daylight. I keep my brightness slider on manual at about 15% and it works out pretty well for me. It hurts my eyes if it's too bright. At this level, the blacks are almost indistinguishable from the bezel.
It's not quite as good as completely indistinguishable from the bezel like the Zune - that I really like and is great for movies - but it's not all that bad either.
I would probably prefer to have OLED given the choice and I really like the width of the Zune. This will likely be one of the features reserved for the 4G iphone. There are so few things left to add so they have to hold these things back so people will want to upgrade to the next one:
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Making stuff up? What did I make up?
A decent LCD can match it? No... it can not. Kuro owner here, ex. Bravia owner!
The issue isn't quality, the issue is LCD.
The images on Thurrott's site seem perfectly fine. Looks just like my 2 iPhones at such an angle. The best thing about the Zune in most every review is the screen. People go on about it.
I'd agree that the viewing angles are poor on the ipod/iphone but normally you don't need to look at the screen at an angle.
As for the sunlight images, both phones are in a different position in related to camera.
It shouldn't matter if the Zune's viewing angles are superior.
Even at the same angle the iPhone probably has better light sensor anyway, automatically banging the brightness up to full. That's not necessarily representative of the screens themselves.
The output quality is the deciding factor irrespective of how it's achieved.
The Zune's screen is far superior, check the video reviews, everyone says it.
In videos like these, the Zune screen looks great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMH1ax5OEZc
but my iphone screen doesn't look like the one in the video. If you set your brightness fairly low, you get pretty decent blacks. Being able to increase the brightness means it can show up better in daylight. I keep my brightness slider on manual at about 15% and it works out pretty well for me. It hurts my eyes if it's too bright. At this level, the blacks are almost indistinguishable from the bezel.
It's not quite as good as completely indistinguishable from the bezel like the Zune - that I really like and is great for movies - but it's not all that bad either.
I would probably prefer to have OLED given the choice and I really like the width of the Zune. This will likely be one of the features reserved for the 4G iphone. There are so few things left to add so they have to hold these things back so people will want to upgrade to the next one:
http://www.oled-display.net/iphone-4g-concept