[Galaxy Note 3 General] BarryH_GEG:
Remember that when I screw up. Which I do. ;)

I love my N2 and you'll never hear me bad mouth it; even after I get a N3. I had no issues with the N2's display at all. The challenge though with all AMOLED displays is outdoor brightness. It isn't helped when Samsung uses grey fonts on read e-mails in their e-mail client against the app's black background. So yes, I'm looking forward to more brightness.

That has to take in to account more than just the display. S-800 is an incredibly efficient chip; much more so than Exynos 4 in the N2. Add to that Samsung's included Qualcomm's Envelope Tracker chip in the N3, its first application, which is supposed to reduce a devices

overall

battery consumption by 25-30%. Those things more than a slight bump in battery size are why Samsung's claiming four more hours of video playback between the N2<>N3.

As for the display, PenTile's more efficient than RGB because fewer pixels are lit up and they are doing the job of more. If the N3's display was RGB it would be less efficient not more. The mad scientists at Samsung Korea put a lot of thought in to Diamond Pixel. This is a display expert's commentary. The link is his detailed review of the SGS4's display which I'm assuming should carry over to the N3. Of all the things I'm worried about on the N3 the display's the least of them. Especially now that [MENTION=1191710]NZtechfreak[/MENTION] confirmed the SGS4's smearing is gone.

PenTile Displays

The pixels on most current OLED displays have only 2 sub-pixels in each pixel instead of the standard 3 Red, Green, and Blue sub-pixels found in most other displays and display technologies. Half of the PenTile pixels have Green and Red sub-pixels and the other half have Green and Blue sub-pixels, so Red and Blue are always shared by two adjacent pixels. This makes PenTile displays easier to manufacture and at a lower cost. It also improves brightness and reduces aging effects. Because the eye has lower visual acuity for color this works very well for photographic and video images. But for digitally generated fine text and graphics with precise pixel layouts the eye can visually detect the reduced number of Red and Blue sub-pixels unless the number of Red and Blue Sub-Pixels Per Inch is very high. And it is for the Galaxy S4 – there are 312 Red and Blue Sub-Pixels Per Inch, which is only a few percent lower than Apple’s Benchmark 326 PPI iPhone Retina Display. Visually the Galaxy S4 PenTile display delivers excellent visual sharpness across the board.

Diamond Pixels

A high resolution screen shot of the Galaxy S4 (provided by Samsung) shows an interesting design and sub-pixel arrangement, which Samsung calls Diamond Pixels. First of all, the Red, Green, and Blue sub-pixels have very different sizes – Blue is by far the largest because it has the lowest efficiency, and Green is by far the smallest because it has the highest efficiency. The alternating Red and Blue sub-pixel PenTile arrangement discussed above leads to a 45 degree diagonal symmetry in the sub-pixel layout. Then, in order to maximize the sub-pixel packing and achieve the highest possible PPI, that leads to diamond rather than square or stripe shaped Red and Blue sub-pixels. But not for the Green sub-pixels, which are oval shaped because they are squeezed between two much larger and different sized Red and Blue sub-pixels. It’s display art…

http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S4_ShootOut_1.htm#Diamond_Pixels
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