imo there are 2 main issues with MY N9 screen:

1) the colour mangement is completely off charts.

This is the only phone I have that displays its own shot pictures absurdely oversaturated and over contrasted.

I have compared a same picture shot with the N9 on N900, Pre3, N8 and iPone 3GS, finally on my high gammut , calibrated Dell monitor.

Conclusion: the N9 is by far the worst of the bunch when displaying pictures in the gallery or in the webbrowser.


The N9 is obviously trying to hide something by not allowing full zoom of pictures in the gallery. So doing one can't inspect the subtile gradients up close.
On the N900 one can zoom in full size on pictures.

To get the best out of this screen and phone for everybody, somebody needs to write a patch that introduces the possibility to adjust the RGB values next to colour dept and brightness.


Many of the uglyness may disappear when we have adjusted our screens to normal contrast, brightness and colour values.

2) the sharpness of text: I am afraid most people with good eyesight that were expecting this phone to function as an internet tablet may notice the serious downgrade.
The only thing I see sharp when looking at small text-and I mean really small text that always was readable on the N900- is this damn pentile screen's raster.
a Samsung Galaxy tab with a much lower ppi figure but a quieter TFT screen produces almost the same sharpness on small text, but of course has a much larger screen.

This N9 display quality may be improved by patching but it will never be worthy of the OS when the purpose is using it as an internet tablet for replacing the N900.

For the time being the display only excells in displaying this grid of colourfull app icons.

N9 is really the phone edition of the Harmattan running hardware and even on the wp7 forums there is now anxious speculation going on as will the 800 have the same backward screen technology .

Edit: to confirm with OP, I also am able to observe those black spots on gray (for example in the empty task manager window) but consider this minor issue at this stage