DeadDuck123

wonkothesane said:

I don’t understand how the LCD should account for the longer battery life in the XR as opposed to the OLED. I thought the whole point of OLES (or at least one of the major ones) is the absence of the backlight Illini sting only the “non black pixels” and thus saving significant power?

@wonkothesane that's actually a misconception, and no thanks to some of the early pitching points for OLED. It's true that OLED doesn't need backlight and parts of the screen can be turned off. But to make maximum of that capability, manufacturers will have to use dark UI with lot of black background. Any pixel that is not black is essentially turning on the LED. When you're using normal bright UI, you are not saving any power as most of the screen is lit up. Compared to that few LEDs in backlight grid would use lesser power than fully lit OLED.

So considering all that, smaller size LCD (6.1") will use less power compared to larger OLED (6.5") screen using the same UI. Ofcourse there are other factors contributing to the power usage between the two phones, but screen is definitely one area where decent amount of power saving occurs.