[T-Mobile LG G2x] tombaker1:
SUMMARY: If the backlight bleed on the G2x was a real issue, there would be pictures of the problem in any real world scenario. A problem on a normal menu screen, or App, or Game, or Movie viewing....would be shown in pictures, WHERE ARE THEY? Theoretically this could be a massive issue is all we have seen from hardware-techno-unsavvy-perfectionists If its real....show some real problems in pics or youtube.

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1. The G2x has an H-IPS screen, with excellent contrast ratio for an IPS lcd. The most significant feature of the backlight on a mobile smartphone is its ability to showup in direct sunlight. Here the G2x is excellent in the day. It does excellent.

2. A LCD light is always on. Black is just the LCD blocking all the light out. The slight bleeding seen in G2x screens at the corners is an aspect of the backlighting creeping around. Some screens get better over time because the glues involved in assempble cure more over time.

3. Being an IPS screen there is something called white glow, on blacks, you can angle the screen to create more or less glow. Glow is not bleed. You can google white glow for IPS....here is one ( http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/peripherals/f/3529/p/19298893/19570332.aspx ) White glow is part of the IPS nature. Only very very high end monitors have Advanced True White Polarizers, and that technology is not even being made anymore.

3. If you don't like the slight screen bleed, or white glow, you are better off with going with AMOLED, which will not have either. Plus AMOLED is faster for games. I think the LCD in G2x is exceptional, but higher resolution and or AMOLED are better. Don't bother doing an endless G2x return trying to get the AMOLED features out of a H-IPS screen.

4. With all the hemming and hawing and people saying the bleed is horiffic, terrible, unacceptable....etc etc etc.....there has not been a single posting or video that shows the problem. Sure we can take DRAW and show an all black screen and go into the closet and see the small bleed. (Draw has two default Pen colors, one slightly yellow, the other cool white. Be sure to make it white when testing white writing on a black screen...clear data in DRAW and then compare the two default pen colors, one is yellowish by default)

Yes we can see the all black screen in complete darkness.....but how about anything real.

5. I have to conclude if the G2x had screen problems in normal usage, we would see pictures of it. Picture of

A. A dark background wallpaper with Icons, that show problems. In the day, in a room, in a very dark room. Yet not a single picture to be found....and I have googled looking for them.

B. Picture of a dark moving playing in a dark room, or a normal lighted room, where the problem is shown. Just rewind and take a video of the problem. Heck even a screen shot on a freeze.

C. Any picture or videos at all of the Backlight bleeding issue on the G2x in normal usage. The menus...a movie, during gameplay. Anything where normal color images are being used. Anything showing the bleeding in anything besides a pure black acid test.

Unless someone can show some images of this horrific bleeding issue, I have to chalk it up to technology naive perfectionists doing worst case testing and never bothering to check actual usage.

I would love to be proven wrong here....so go ahead....until then its just bogus.

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This thread probably has the best chronicling of the "issue" with images http://www.lgforum.com/forum/boards...ecked-10-so-far-waiting-for-the-next-shipment

All are just black screen. Some of the pictures with a problem, I would call excellent for an LCD to block light. The 30 inch monitor shows White Glow as you get off angle from center. Some of the picture use very poor exposure. You can see super glowing....but if you look at the soft keys and the bottom, they are glowing too. You will never see softkey lighting in the real world, that looks anything like those glowing pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCW-014m33c this video in spite of what the maker says, does not show horrific problems. His assumption is that users will use outside direct sunlight settings of full brightness for watching movies. Not likely. The video does show some actual screens that don't seem to be a problem at all....one does look like 2.3 the other 2.2