OLED panels have additional advantages over LCD panels other than contrast, black levels and efficiency. OLED panels do not exhibit "blooming." No matter how good an LCD panel is, blooming will never be eliminated.
LCD panels will never stretch or bend. LCD panels cannot be made transparent. Form factors are possible with OLED that would not with conventional LCD. Samsung is working on a phone that wraps around a person's wrist. OLED makes that possible. LCD does not.
So while there are arguments being made over the advantages of LCD over OLED, Samsung is pouring it on with respect to OLED development. And if the people who feel LCD is superior had their way, Apple would not be moving to OLED panels and therefore would cede the entire mobile market to Samsung.
Call me a skeptic, but with the pace of development happening in OLED, none of the other technologies have much of a chance of ever seeing any real success. Samsung itself is sourcing LCD display panels for TVs from their primary competitor, LG just to focus on OLED. Samsung was once focused on Quantum dot technology also. Not so much anymore. They are rapidly bringing the cost of OLED technology down and advancing it at the same time also.
And if Sony felt LCD technology were superior, they wouldn't be sourcing large OLED panels from LG to build high end televisions. And Apple would be building the watch with an LCD panel. Apple wouldn't also be moving to OLED for the iPhone 8.
OLED will soon exceed LCD in visual quality in every conceivable aspect including brightness and contrast. Relatively soon, OLED panels will even cost less than LCDs. However, LCD will never be bendable or transparent. Conventional LCD is a dead technology. And Apple is wise to move off of it.
Samsung is only beginning to advance the technology. LCD efficiency and advancement have been essentially maximized. Samsung just developed Bio blue technology and are working on a number of other advancements. JDI and Sharp LCD displays are far outclassed.
I have looked at the displays on the Galaxy S8 and 12.9 inch iPad Pro side by side. The Samsung display is subjectively better. It isn't really even close. The colors are better and more vivid. And the phone really shines in the Gear VR device. I really doubt that an iPhone panel would be as good.
With Apple's color management capabilities, the Samsung display on an iPad or iPhone would be stellar. And I will be attempting to purchase the iPhone 8. The other phones with the LCD panels don't jnterest me in the slightest.
Bah, much of that is great marketing, but mostly worthless. LCD can be curved. It can’t be flexed, that’s the difference.
With their use of OLED, it’s estimated that Samsung sells about 50 million of the latest Galaxy S and Notes (when they work) a year, compared to Apple selling about 150 million latest model iPhones a year. Apple isn’t worried about Samsung there, OLED or not. Apple isn’t doing this just for marketing as Samsung was for the first few years.
the Samsung displays are certainly not better. You may like overblown saturation as most people do, but that’s actually worse. Again, not impressed.
sony and other manufacturers sell whatever the public is told is the new thing. That doesn’t mean that for everything, it’s the best thing.
in the longer run, I do think that OLED CAN have an advanatage. But Apple wants to use it because you can’t cut chunks out of lcd the way you can with OLED, though now we’re reading that there might be a 40% rejection of Samsung OLED displays for Apple because of problems Samsung is having with that. Another advantage is that there is almost no current going through black pixels (contrary to common thought, there is a tiny amount of electricity going through), allowing the screen to display time, etc, with very little power, though with OLED still having burnout problems, it needs to be constantly moved around on the display. That last advantage that Apple wants is that of not needing a separate backlight, simplifying the design, and allowing a thinner device, with less, or no bezel.
those are the real advantages right now. It’s not efficiency. It’s not black levels, and it’s certainly not the misleading statements about infinite contrast. It’s definately not the lower overall brightness either, or the burnout, which doesn’t happen with lcd at all.
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Bah, much of that is great marketing, but mostly worthless. LCD can be curved. It can’t be flexed, that’s the difference.
With their use of OLED, it’s estimated that Samsung sells about 50 million of the latest Galaxy S and Notes (when they work) a year, compared to Apple selling about 150 million latest model iPhones a year. Apple isn’t worried about Samsung there, OLED or not. Apple isn’t doing this just for marketing as Samsung was for the first few years.
the Samsung displays are certainly not better. You may like overblown saturation as most people do, but that’s actually worse. Again, not impressed.
sony and other manufacturers sell whatever the public is told is the new thing. That doesn’t mean that for everything, it’s the best thing.
in the longer run, I do think that OLED CAN have an advanatage. But Apple wants to use it because you can’t cut chunks out of lcd the way you can with OLED, though now we’re reading that there might be a 40% rejection of Samsung OLED displays for Apple because of problems Samsung is having with that. Another advantage is that there is almost no current going through black pixels (contrary to common thought, there is a tiny amount of electricity going through), allowing the screen to display time, etc, with very little power, though with OLED still having burnout problems, it needs to be constantly moved around on the display. That last advantage that Apple wants is that of not needing a separate backlight, simplifying the design, and allowing a thinner device, with less, or no bezel.
those are the real advantages right now. It’s not efficiency. It’s not black levels, and it’s certainly not the misleading statements about infinite contrast. It’s definately not the lower overall brightness either, or the burnout, which doesn’t happen with lcd at all.