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Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
Back in 2009 Samsung made the i8910 with Amoled screen (and before that nokia made the N85 and N86). They were all stripe RGB amoled's.
The Galaxy S came with a (stunning) Super Amoled, and that was pentile, because it had various advantages, like more brightness, longer lifetime and less power consumption. Now Samsung comes with the RGB stripe as Super Amoled Plus and now the stripe is the hot thing again.
As I understand it, what it did to AMOLED, is essentially what Nokia's done to their AMOLED

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_AMOLED

One of the main differences from other display technologies is that the layer that detects touch is integrated into the screen rather than being overlaid on top.
Compared with the first-generation AMOLED, some of the Super AMOLED advantages are brighter screens, less sunlight reflection and reduced power consumption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active-matrix_OLED

Manufacturers have developed in-cell touch panels, integrating the production of capacitive sensor arrays in the AMOLED module fabrication process.
In-cell sensor AMOLED fabricators include AU Optronics and Samsung. Samsung has marketed their version of this technology as Super AMOLED.
Clear Black Display or CBD is an AMOLED display with a polarized filter on top.
AMOLED displays (10,000 cd/me2) may be difficult to view in direct sunlight compared to LCDs.[11] Samsung's Super AMOLED technology addresses this issue by reducing the size of gaps between layers of the screen.[12][13]
All stuff Nokia has done to their screen...
Except for the power consumption side of things, not sure about that.
Plus Nokia also uses CBD (is it just be a rebranding of what Samsung did in SAMOLED?)

Although there must be some differences, as Jakiman claims his N9 is brighter than his SAMOLED+*
I don't think the polariser causes that, AFAIK it just makes the screen more readable in high light environs?
But I guess that extra brightness may not be there when comparing it to phones with SAMOLED?
Plus some have claimed it's easier to read in bright light at the same brightness levels, than the SGSII.

I suspect "Super" is just Samsung's marketing name for what is 'basically' the same tech used by N9.
I suspect Super is trademarked, so Nokia can only use something like "AMOLED CBD" etc.
You look at all the commercial devices that officially use Super AMOLED, & they're all Samsung.

The only way to know for sure that it's not just a Pentile AMOLED, is to get some direct comparisons going.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't as good or better overall than SAMOLED screens though.
As anecdotally some have even felt it's as good or better -in some ways- than SAMOLED+.

Some other interesting links....
http://www.oled-info.com/super-amoled
http://www.tested.com/news/pentile-v...ifferent/1868/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family

*2-month old SGSII

Last edited by jalyst; 2011-10-11 at 20:33.
 

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