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	javispedro	2012-12-19 , 14:13
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Originally Posted by qwazix

It just says that the max resolution of WP7 was so low that it was possible to cram 3 subpixels/px. Or if you see it the other way around, with such a low ppi the only thing they could do to mitigate the loss of quality was to go RGB. Now for the 920 they went LCD which is an entirely different ballpark.

Btw clairvoyant is a samsung subsidiary if i'm not mistaken.

It's simple. You can't go well over 200ppi with RGB amoled.

Samsung's own Galaxy Note 2 is RGB AMOLED and is 260ppi. So you quite can go over 200ppi.

Of course, the real reason Samsung (ab)uses Pentile is that they like to boast their über resolutions over Apple ones, when actually the Galaxy S3 is ~200ppi (because of Pentile). Aka much less that the iPhone and even less than the retina iPad.

Samsung will argue that 200ppi Pentile actually looks like 300ppi because of human eye aspects, etc.
In my opinion, a true RGB layout at 200ppi looks much better than Pentile at 200ppi, because of all the Pentile artifacts. Compare the N9 vs the N950. Thus, saying that 200ppi Pentile looks like 300ppi Pentile is hilarious at best.

Samsung KNOWS that they will not sell as many devices if they concede that Apple has nearly 1/3 more pixels, despite the screen being smaller, so they start talking about Pentile.

Originally Posted by specc

So the initial question should be, why do manufacturers still use LCD?

LCDs, specially IGZO and the like, can be made with very, very high ppis. They also have a longer lifespan. In my opinion, both things beat AMOLED's color reproduction.

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