Anandtech quick review of S5 LTE-A 1440p screen - quite good

[dawheat]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8258/evaluating-samsungs-qhd-amoled-displays

Max brightness appears to be equal to the S5, which combined with the high contrast and low reflectance, make a good outdoor screen.

More impressed with the calibration to the LTE-A screen - hopefully it's not something Samsung did just for the low volume LTE-A version and something they can do across all their future high end phones, starting with the Note 4.

Power draw is the other big question that no one, outside of anecdotes, has answered yet. Hopefully AMOLEDs by nature won't suffer as much in scaling to higher resolutions.

 

[dawheat]

Anandtech posted a follow-up. To summarize

- battery life is basically = to the S5
- Real-life gaming performance is = to the S5 due to the higher res. Synthetic benchmarks are quite a bit higher.
- CPU performance is basically the same as the S801

So the newest AMOLED screens seem to have an advantage at 1440p when it comes to power consumption - pretty amazing considering how they were worse in this respect compared to the best LCDs a couple years ago.

However the fair question seems to be - was it worth it. The same power improvements + S805 in a 1080p screen would have resulted in likely better battery life over the S5 as well as much higher gaming performance.

I don't 3D game on my phone, so I'd take the 1440p screen considering it doesn't have the negatives of the G3 screen and with the S805, you'd get identical performance to the S5.

 

[Insomniator]

Would rather have better battery life then 1440p.

 

[Rdmkr]

Amoled, S805 and QHD are a good combo. Throwing 5.1" in negates any benefit, though. People are already complaining about the impossibility to notice QHD on 5.5".

 

[dawheat]

Amoled, S805 and QHD are a good combo. Throwing 5.1" in negates any benefit, though. People are already complaining about the impossibility to notice QHD on 5.5".

True but these AMOLED screens are pentile so the higher res IMO is more impactful, even if it's still overkill.

 

[jacktesterson]

I have a OnePlus One with a 5.5 Inch 1080p Screen - Its already over 400 PPI. Going higher is pointless - It requires more GPU power for next to 0 noticeable increase in detail.

 

[Ravynmagi]

Well I'll need to see a 1440p phone in person to judge. I remember us having similar conversations before the 1080p phones arrived.

 

[jacktesterson]

Well I'll need to see a 1440p phone in person to judge. I remember us having similar conversations before the 1080p phones arrived.

Just go look at a LG G3 next to a G2.