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[Galaxy S6 General] Jonathan-H:
I'd vote for LCD on the S6. X100

The display on the S6 is pretty poor to be honest. Colour reproduction is no where near real life on any setting and anyone who thinks it is reads reviews are gospel because in real life it's a different story, with white's are awful and blacks which are only slightly better than the current top level LCD's.

Add to the fact, removing all the nonsense about Amoled being better on battery, which in real world usage is rubbished, most work done on 99% of phones is white background, negating any battery advantage, which is negligible and indistinguishable in real world use and testing.

Black themes on HTC One M9 look just as good as on the S6, possibly even better thanks to the other colours being better, and anything with a light or white background looks leaps and bounds better on it's LCD.

Can't get around the fact that 99% of Samsung's current displays have pink tint and uniformity issues and look pretty poor.

Mine was replaced and the pink tint which looked better, is worse than ever after just a few days or so of use.

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Have you even looked at real world pictures or looked through the camera of the S6 lately? No mode is true to life with colours and the my M9, or in fact probably any top end LCD lately is better in direct sunlight. The S6 display looks like a ghost while the M9 actually is still crisp and sharp. As for ambient display, who uses it and how long is it on screen for ? .5 of a second? Useless.
[Galaxy S6 General] jeffnz:
Among the reasons for having bought Samsung phones for years the screen is one of the main reasons, if they changed to LCD I would most likely change brands. Samsung lead the world in AMOLED display so why change that to become like Apple. All I can say to those posing this ridiculous suggestion is change your phone to a manufacturer that gives you what you desire. I still get comments from my friends that have Iphones (the 6 included) that Samsung displays l;ook better so maybe its not that bad at all even if it isn't representative of "real" life its just easy on the eye. My opinion of course
[Galaxy S6 General] godutch:
I used to use ambient display all the time, too bad samsung disabled it (for now). And you must be using your display wrong, the S6 has the brightest display by a long margin, almost twice as bright as some of the competition but you have to leave the brightness to auto
[Galaxy S6 General] *Emix*:
No, thanks.
[Galaxy S6 General] Gilg@mesh:
lol, no way, the screen is the main reason I still use Samsung devices...not that the other hardware is bad but OLED is the way to go.
[Galaxy S6 General] mupet0000:
The AMOLED display is one of the main reasons I stick with Samsung.
[Galaxy S6 General] Japultra:
AMOLED fan here also. Not 100% certain which technology is more efficient/better based on technical specs but for daily usage, I much prefer my S6 SAMOLED over the G3's LCD.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mithrandir007:
Same here, can't go back to LCD screens anymore.

I also don't have any issues with the whites on mine (which I did have on some previous AMOLEDs though).

That's an issue for tablets though, I have the Galaxy Tab S (which I like but would still like to upgrade since my wife wants it), and I don't really like their idea of going 4/3 for the Tab S 2, but there's no other tablets as good or better which has an AMOLED screen.

You can't say LCD is better just because you like it better.

Like someone else said, there was already a reliable test that proves you wrong, but if LCD is more to your liking, just get a LG G4 or something like that.

http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S6_ShootOut_1.htm
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
I think he can say its better. Until the color uniformity issues are resolved at least.

I love amoled, but when part of your screen is a different color then the rest, thats an instant loss in my book.
[Galaxy S6 General] Mithrandir007:
I guess that's more a case of technical issues with some of the screens, because it's not happening on all devices.

Like I said, I'm really happy with the screen on mine, and I did inspect it quite a bit.
[Galaxy S6 General] Audioboxer:
Have had soo many issues with backlight bleed on Android LCD devices that I prefer AMOLED.
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
I dont know. I have inspected 20+ phones in person (most vietnam, 1 indian, and 4 koreans) only 1 of the koreans appeared flawless. The rest all had screen issues.

Once these quality control issues are resolved, i will concede amoled is definetly better.

But yea if you are the 1% that gets a flawless phone, its definetly better than lcd
[Galaxy S6 General] TheEndHK:
Recently, some of the best IPS(usually only found on LG/Apple) got improved black color however latest AMOLED(Note4/S6) been also improved the white color as well as color reproduction.

I always prefer AMOLED. It's true that AMOLED still not as color as accurate IPS but who the hell will run lightroom or doing video encoding? For the desktop monitor, I must prefer IPS becoz I need to do editing stuffs but for a phone, a true black screen is much more important for rich photo/video experiences and it's also good for text reading. IPS background sometimes is just too bright, you will need professional IPS panel like H-IPS/S-IPS to avoid this problem but they are way more expensive and not available for smartphone.
[Galaxy S6 General] megagodx:
You don't think I don't know about the DisplayMate analysis. He puts out a lot of analytical statements about the display in general, but when it comes to real life experience and usage, and comparing the two screen technologies. I just don't see where Samsung's Super AMOLED is superior at all to the highest caliber LCDs. Besides, in his same reviews, he mentioned the Galaxy S4 being close to on-par with the iPhone 5 [the best display at the time] - which wasn't even close to true when it came to brightness, color reproduction, white point, and efficiency. He also claimed the Galaxy S5 had the best and most accurate display on the market, which is highly contestable and many other tech venues disagreed.

I like Samsung phones. No other hardware vendor puts out quality hardware that's top-end; they also put incredible amounts of research and development dollars into making sure their hardware is above that of the other competition. They also source many of their own parts in-house or design themselves and are increasingly doing so with camera modules and SoCs. I wouldn't want to abandon Samsung over their displays [which are still very good, just not the best at this time] - I know Samsung is capable of making the best LCDs in the world, too. Other Android vendors just source most of their components off the shelf and they really don't equate to a good user experience anyway.

The LG G3 really had a terrible display. It was inefficient, dim and highly inaccurate. Not really a far comparison to make.

I think the whole light bleed argument is blown out of proportion really. Besides, OLED's strong point is also it's weakness. Black clipping leads to loss of details where shadows and gray areas in a dark scene get drowned out. At least you see those finer details with LCDs.
[Galaxy S6 General] blestsol:
Nah, I don't want LCD. I purchased this phone mainly because of the screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] TheEndHK:
This is ridiculous because this is what exactly the LCD/IPS problem got and what is happening on my Sony Z1c and my desktop IPS monitor. AMOLED is doing better in shadow and gray areas.

It is again ridiculous to take it in this area seriously except you want to do lightroom or video editing on your phone and you really need to know smartphone all only got 18bit panel(and so to all low grade PC monitor), not true 24bit. I'll say all phones on Earth will include some kinds of details loss when dealing with color fading.
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
Screw it....I want a plasma screen S6!

It's just a phone guys...why get carried away?

Most of us won't keep it for another 6 months to a year but yet ***** and moan about it as if it were a lifetime investment!

It's just a disposable toy until a better or something else we can afford comes along.....
[Galaxy S6 General] midreestaj:
Samsung = Amoled - the rest of the world can go with LCDs. I would think low of a flagship phone from Samsung if it sports LCD.

That said, Samsung is all about the tech advancement especially seen in their endeavour with 7420 soc as well as Amoled
[Galaxy S6 General] hajyihia:
it's already known that samsung has the best screens...they perfected the amoled panels in the S6 and NOTE 4....in the old days, amoled had one issue...low brightness at full...now its higher than LCD's........i am sure other manufacturers sooner or later will jump to amoled....at least some of them...
[Galaxy S6 General] episode96:
I personally prefer no backlight to backlight and perfect whites.
[Galaxy S6 General] JohanSjogren:
GS6 (and None4) run in basic colour mode is the best smartphone display in the world when it comes to colour and white reproduction, read displaymate's tests . iPhone and lg G4 has good displays but not as accurate, whites are blue and lg G4 is over saturated. I think Samsung does right in giving us color settings (templates anyway) that should make most people happy. I really love the screen in basic (sRGB accurate) mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
My phone looks way too warm in basic. Looks like a sepia filter..
[Galaxy S6 General] i9100g user:
2013..LCD any day

2015..AMOLED for sure

(Assuming both have no QC issues)

There are more than just display mate reviews showing Amoleds are superior to LCDs (from n4 onwards) , objectively of course.

Subjectively its each to their own.
[Galaxy S6 General] bloodrain954:
You people are so petty, it's crazy.
[Galaxy S6 General] JohanSjogren:
It may be because we are so used to see cooler whites on displays that when we actually have correct white shade it seems like it's too warm. It should be ~6500k (like in basic mode) but most displays are way off. In AMOLED-photo mode for example the whites are cooler than the accurate white. If you use standard mode for a while and switch back to adaptive or photo mode or comparing it to iPhone or any other smartphone basically, they will all look ridiculously blue :)
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
6500k is way too cool.
[Galaxy S6 General] iamhacked:
Yep. With QHD, LCD phones are quite horrible now
[Galaxy S6 General] JohanSjogren:
You are right! I used the wrong numbers. The basic mode has 6426k according to displaymate. Which is very good for display. When printing though the white should be 5000k in a photograph for it to be true white on paper viewed in natural light. If you use 5000k (closer to sunlight) on a monitor for example it will have a warmish yellow hue due to brightess limitations. A lot of consumer products like TVs, monitors and such have ~6500k though. Adaptive mode on SG6 has a whitenes of 7346k according to display mate. And iPhone has 7300k. Point is that basic mode on GS6 and Note4 will have very good white reproduction for photos and media/browsing experience compared to other smartphones and even expensive monitors/TV's.
[Galaxy S6 General] zathus:
Hell no!
[Galaxy S6 General] Strawberry1987:
No way Im going back to LCD screens had so much problems with all iPhones with stuck pixels Amoled don't have this kind of issue at all.
[Galaxy S6 General] megagodx:
The Galaxy's AMOLED whites look piss poor warm in Basic Mode because of how poor the luminescence is on the display. You actually get more convincing whites when you turn on Adaptive Display or Cinema Mode because the extra bit of contrast from the color display makes everything look a bit more brighter on a lower luminescence setting. Samsung really needs to get the energy efficiency down on these Super AMOLED panels when they're displaying high APL, to where they're hoving around the mid 400 cm/nits on average, not the mid 300s. Maybe then those "accurate" whites will look better, but for now, it looks like a yellowy warm mess. The iPhone and LG's G4's bluish display still looks more convincingly white than the Galaxy S6 on either Basic or the saturated profiles.

Someone also mentioned about the S6 being the brightest display, well, only in situational usages where high dynamic contrast from the sun is beaming down on the phone. So in bright daylight, screen will be bright enough to see, but this does not translate into any other kind of environment. Like I said, I just want better, brighter whites and a more energy efficient screen. AMOLED hasn't reached that level and their on-screen time is bad for anything outside of viewing video content really. LCDs with QDot technology achieve the same level of saturation as OLEDs, are more energy efficient, have longer shelf life and brightness won't degrade over a few years like OLED, can be calibrated accurately, and have the same good real world observant white color display.
[Galaxy S6 General] theronlas:
If you dont like the screen dont buy a Samsung phone, they are what they are. Since they sell extremely well, one has to conclude that the majority of users are not bothered by the screen.
[Galaxy S6 General] Semseddin:
Sorry but lcd was always inferior to amoled and it is inferior as of now. Why would i ask for an inferior technology when i have the best at the moment.

@Op,

Your suggestions doesnt rely on the facts. Amoled > Lcd.
[Galaxy S6 General] Euthye:
No way, keep oled, why fix what doesn't need fixing?
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
In theory it better, but i have yet to see an s6 with consistant color across the whole screen.

Every s6 i have seen, when looking at a flat background, its either greener, pinker, or brighter in different parts of the screen.

Now i look at a lcd like the iphone 6, theres none if this inconsistancy. Its perfect.

Only reason im keeping this phone, is other than the screen, its pretty awesome.
[Galaxy S6 General] Semseddin:
I was talking about Amoled tech being superior than LCD tech. S6 's amoled screen might have its own issues but Note 4 also have an amoled display and that screen would be a better example for the superiority of amoleds against its lcd counterparts. I can't see myself using a device with an lcd screen with its dull colors and poor viewing angles and gray blacks, i am happy for these bonuses with amoled, be my whites a little more warmly yellowish instead of colder blueish whites on the lcd's.
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
I agree the tech is superior. But at this point in time, because of the manufactoring issues with amoled, i would rather own lcd.
[Galaxy S6 General] mi7chy:
No. LCD has more inherent issues such as back light bleed, uniformity issues, distortion from pressure, yellow white, bad/stuck pixels, black showing as grey, etc.
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
Well we will have to agree to disagree. My iphones didnt have those issues besides blacks as grays in really dark movies. And my nexus 7 only had stuck pixels after 2 years.
[Galaxy S6 General] mi7chy:
If OP wants a different white temperature he can try changing display mode on the S6 from dynamic to cinema. I have the S6 in cinema mode with whiter white next to a top notch Japan Industry Inc LCD that's virtually identical to the iPhone 6. Everything else AMOLED is untouchable. Sure, you can overdrive the LCD backlight but for white at the expense of distorting everything else.
[Galaxy S6 General] megagodx:
Lol @ the reading comprehension of these people. They must either skim through the first post and don't analyze anything else and shoot to the reply button to parrot the same talking points. AMOLED is good, but it's not the best at this time. It's only had 5 years of commercial development under its belt from Samsung.

Compare that to the 30 decades of usage of LCDs, to see why AMOLEDs aren't as good when rendering certain colors, aren't as bright or as energy efficient at typical APL than LCDs, thanks to QDots, LCDs are encroaching on OLEDs high gamut spectrum too. So they can be both accurate and saturated as well. AMOLED came far in 5 short years, but it's probably going to realistically take another 3-5 years before it can successfully proceed LCDs.
[Galaxy S6 General] mi7chy:
Maybe OP needs to get his eyes checked out and get a real clue on quantum dot which is just a fancy name for LCD which attempts to minimize the inherent defects for the low cost market. Quantum dot is a compromise for people that want the qualities of OLED but have the budget for LCD. Mods should move troll bait threads like this into a junk bin so people don't mistakenly wonder into it.
[Galaxy S6 General] megagodx:
You need to get a reality check, the only one whose being disruptive here is yourself. Last time I checked, we are allowed reasonable discussion and debate over this product and even its potential shortcomings. Perhaps the mods should remove you from this thread and your posts. LOL quantum dots is the change in semiconductor and back lighting mechanisms filter out leakage and let through only pure color for the best color fidelity, aka better saturation. How is that "LCD rebranded"? Of course it's still LCD technology. But it allows manufacturers to match or exceed the possible gamut for the range of colors OLEDs offer, while having a cost cutting measure to manufacture them, because OLEDs still aren't cheap to produce, and they have a lot of flaws when it comes to efficiency and shelf-life. I'd say the technology would be better once they start sampling QDLEDs - which are brighter, more energy efficient, cost effective, have better color reproduction and have better longevity than OLED.
[Galaxy S6 General] tntgdh:
Dude...I went for lcd in my last phone...I just got my s6 two days ago. Oh my God. ..how I missed amoled! So happy to be back
[Galaxy S6 General] i9100g user:
How about create a poll and see if anyone at all , agrees with your

"opinion"
[Galaxy S6 General] deV14nt:
You simply don't know what you're talking about. For the first few of your posts you were acting like it was all about pure black, and the interface isn't all black, so it doesn't matter. Now you mention clipping, so you do get that blacks can get crushed (to use the proper term) but then you say that happens with OLED and not with LCD! (I never use exclamation points.)

No, the problem is that LCDs can't go without the backlight. It is always on, and it is always bleeding light. Poor blacks is the simplistic way of saying LCD can't represent that part of the spectrum well. So poor midnight blue. Poor blood red. Poor graphite. And that's without even considering you need consistent contrast through the rest of the spectrum, so everything ends up a little brighter. And washed out. With more brightness across the board and less contrast. Colors that are not accurate based on luminance alone. It's taking that gray you see on your blank black LCD and applying that like an Instagram filter to everything displayed on the screen. Do you follow yet?

tl;dr: not sure if trolling?
[Galaxy S6 General] Jonathan-H:
Technically all this wikipedia stuff you're spouting is correct but in real world use, absolute nonsense. The last 3 phones I had which were LCD did not have "poor" blacks in fact they matched AMOLED in daylight viewing while having much much better whites and colour representation and uniform screen with no tint issues and pink blotches all over it which every single S6 has.

OLED is good, but it not the be all and end all and an iphone or HTC One screen is a better viewing experience on the whole unless you watch a lot of movies at night in your pitch black room instead of using you know, a TV.
[Galaxy S6 General] deV14nt:
Wikipedia? Hardly, but if it makes you feel better go ahead and imagine that's not from years of video editing experience. But I'm not suggesting I have a Ph.D like Dr. Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies or anything. That would be just making **** up.

As for the rest, well that's just like your opinion man.
[Galaxy S6 General] i9100g user:
No point in discussing this any further , they are just repeating the same thing again and again without representing anything new which actually is not just their opinion.

Of course issues with display are real on s6 but so is the fact that AMOLEDs have actually equaled or outdone LCDs in most departments , now if you still do not like the "piss poor warm" display on your s6 then you are free to get something without it.
[Galaxy S6 General] genetichazzard:
Those complaining about warm whites on the S6 AMOLED display. The "basic" mode offered is the most accurate to the sRGB calibration standard available on a consumer mobile displays, as tested by DisplayMate.

If that doesn't suit you, or looks to "warm" to you, just set it to "Adaptive Display" to get more cooler whites.

Either way, nothing beats the most superior display available at this point in time on any mobile device.
[Galaxy S6 General] ShadowVlican:
DisplayMate tells me my S6 is very colour accurate... so it must be true
[Galaxy S6 General] i9100g user:
https://translate.google.com/transl...Samsung_GALAXY_Note_4.html&edit-text=&act=url

Also check out anandtech review they tell 'S6 has a very colour accurate display ' ?

Don't tell me you live under a rock[emoji14]
[Galaxy S6 General] avenging:
Hello no! amoled consistently for me provides the best-looking screens.
[Galaxy S6 General] stennett:
So basic mode is best?
[Galaxy S6 General] deV14nt:
That's true. If you set a computer monitor for photo editing (65K), it too is yellower than expected. Most consumer devices for years have been tuned colder with a bluer tint (93K). People expect white to be tinted blue, to the extent that they don't know that it is. That's why there are options.
[Galaxy S6 General] ambervals6:
says who?

Sent from my SM-G920T
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
I dont know. My whites on all 6 samsung s6s i have owned have been inconsistant. Like right now the top of my phones display, the whites have a pinker hue to them.

I dont know if i can call s6 amoled better when 9/10 of the phones cant even produce uniform color accross the wholenscreen.
[Galaxy S6 General] godutch:
you are nitpicking, how many times do you look at completely white screens?
[Galaxy S6 General] Barff1984:
Wow you sound like a prick
[Galaxy S6 General] dandroid13:
OLED is the future, LCD is an old tech. The current advancements are only to play catch up with OLED, like higher bightness and contrast with those quantum dots panels.
[Galaxy S6 General] Apoxx:
No way, if anything I want other manufacturers to go with super AMOLED instead of LCD.
[Galaxy S6 General] dermotti:
Well im looking through this with tapatalk and 3/4 of the screen is white. The white at the top of my screen is a different color white then the bottom.
[Galaxy S6 General] megagodx:
A lot of hostility seems based on some assumption that I think OLED displays on mobile devices are garbage and should be permanently replaced. That's not the truth though. I didn't advocate for replacing them, just substituting them until Samsung's AMOLED technology matures more. LCDs can have accurate color reproduction when calibrated right, high gamut, good viewing angles, more consistent screen uniformity, better display brightness and whites and are more energy efficient viewing APL (how bright and white the interface is) above 70% (which the majority of the web content you view is) - "Poor blacks" aren't noticeable during mild or brightly lit environments.

There's just less baggage with cutting edge LCD displays right now than there are with AMOLED displays. I advocated LCDs as a momentary substitute because I know Samsung is capable of producing some of the world's best and more accurate and high-quality LCD panels and they would just be a better overall viewing experience at this time, until more research and development is dumped into maturing AMOLED on an efficiency standpoint with whites and brightness without auto-bolstering.