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[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Just thinking out loud, but if OLED power usage doesn't scale up with resolution in the same way as LCD, might this not be a way for Samsung to bully LCD panel manufacturers out of the cellphone market?

It doesn't scale if you maintain a black only UI, but dark UIs just don't look that good unless you're like a 13 year old with a Sci Fi theme. Most Gapps have moved to a cleaner white look anyway.

 

[Red Storm]

Depends on the app. For reading a lot of text white theme is nicer on the eyes. For things like movie playing apps and whatnot, a darker theme is much nicer.

 

[Dari]

Just thinking out loud, but if OLED power usage doesn't scale up with resolution in the same way as LCD, might this not be a way for Samsung to bully LCD panel manufacturers out of the cellphone market?

LCD isn't going anywhere. It lasts longer (pixels), is brighter, and offers other features that OLED does not at the moment.

 

[ChronoReverse]

It doesn't scale if you maintain a black only UI, but dark UIs just don't look that good unless you're like a 13 year old with a Sci Fi theme. Most Gapps have moved to a cleaner white look anyway.

Actually LCD's need more power as pixel densities go up because you need a brighter backlight to push through. OLED's don't increase as much even with full white because you don't actually have a backlight.

Nonetheless, right now OLEDs are behind LCDs with heavy whites (it wins with videos and obviously sips power with blacks) so this only makes them closer.

 

[Bateluer]

It doesn't scale if you maintain a black only UI, but dark UIs just don't look that good unless you're like a 13 year old with a Sci Fi theme. Most Gapps have moved to a cleaner white look anyway.

Huh? Darker color schemes always look better on smartphones, desktops, laptops, and tablets. White and light color schemes range from gaudy to eyeball burning.

 

[s44]

Huh? Darker color schemes always look better on smartphones, desktops, laptops, and tablets. White and light color schemes range from gaudy to eyeball burning.

Yeah. I feel like the insistence on white was part of Google's cold war on Samsung. Hopefully they'll either ditch or let us swap from it now that the two have made up.

 

[openwheel]

It doesn't scale if you maintain a black only UI, but dark UIs just don't look that good unless you're like a 13 year old with a Sci Fi theme. Most Gapps have moved to a cleaner white look anyway.

Dark UI don't look good? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so don't be too quick in making assumptions.

 

[WelshBloke]

Actually LCD's need more power as pixel densities go up because you need a brighter backlight to push through. OLED's don't increase as much even with full white because you don't actually have a backlight.

Nonetheless, right now OLEDs are behind LCDs with heavy whites (it wins with videos and obviously sips power with blacks) so this only makes them closer.

Theres that and the whole active notification thing/notification window thing only really works with OLED.

OLED is just a lot more flexible than LCD's.

 

[WelshBloke]

Yeah. I feel like the insistence on white was part of Google's cold war on Samsung. Hopefully they'll either ditch or let us swap from it now that the two have made up.

Google widgets/apps have always been annoyingly inflexible and basic in their looks. I'm still smarting from google locking Gmail so none of my widgets could display my mail any more.