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I was excited to get a Galaxy Note 3 last week. I manage our business smartphones and right now we are using all iPhones. But I'm hoping to convince my gods that Android would be a good idea. We have sales folks that carry around an iPhone and Mifi because of iPhone's inability to use data and voice on Verizon's CDMA network. So switching to Android phones that have the dual radios to support talk and data on Verizon would save us some money.
Anyway, that's not what this is about. This is about me bitching about my bad luck with AMOLED displays. Let's rewind back to January 2012, LMFAO "Sexy and I Know It" was my favorite song and I just got my new Galaxy Nexus phone from Negri Electronics for $650 (a few months later Google Play would sell it for $400).
Got the phone and it had a purple tint at the bottom of the display. I tried fixing it with apps, with different ROMs, some suggestions did minimize the problem, but screwed up how the colors looked everywhere else. I gave up and returned it for a refund.
Then in April it went on sale from Google Play and I bought it again. Same problem. I returned it and tried another and still had the same problem. At that point I said "Screw it, other than this purple tint it's an otherwise awesome $400 phone" and just lived with it.
However needless to say, I got down on my knees and thanked God that LG was making the Nexus 4 with an LCD panel. I missed the saturated colors and true blacks, but won't miss the funky purple tint at the bottom of the screen. And it's been 16 months of blissful AMOLED free peace in my life after the owning the Nexus 4 and 5.
Then comes the Galaxy Note 3. I wasn't thinking much about the AMOLED display when I ordered it from Amazon. I was looking forward to the huge screen, the SPen and digitizer, trying out note taking, making sure voice and data work, seeing how well our MDM server can manage it. And then BAM! In my face with the blue gradient. Interesting it's blue this time instead of purple. but it's that same evil gradient that haunted me back in 2012.
*Psycho music playing in the background...*
I can't imagine this is something every AMOLED phone buyer experiences. Why are they picking on me?
Anyway, that's not what this is about. This is about me bitching about my bad luck with AMOLED displays. Let's rewind back to January 2012, LMFAO "Sexy and I Know It" was my favorite song and I just got my new Galaxy Nexus phone from Negri Electronics for $650 (a few months later Google Play would sell it for $400).
Got the phone and it had a purple tint at the bottom of the display. I tried fixing it with apps, with different ROMs, some suggestions did minimize the problem, but screwed up how the colors looked everywhere else. I gave up and returned it for a refund.
Then in April it went on sale from Google Play and I bought it again. Same problem. I returned it and tried another and still had the same problem. At that point I said "Screw it, other than this purple tint it's an otherwise awesome $400 phone" and just lived with it.
However needless to say, I got down on my knees and thanked God that LG was making the Nexus 4 with an LCD panel. I missed the saturated colors and true blacks, but won't miss the funky purple tint at the bottom of the screen. And it's been 16 months of blissful AMOLED free peace in my life after the owning the Nexus 4 and 5.
Then comes the Galaxy Note 3. I wasn't thinking much about the AMOLED display when I ordered it from Amazon. I was looking forward to the huge screen, the SPen and digitizer, trying out note taking, making sure voice and data work, seeing how well our MDM server can manage it. And then BAM! In my face with the blue gradient. Interesting it's blue this time instead of purple. but it's that same evil gradient that haunted me back in 2012.
*Psycho music playing in the background...*
I can't imagine this is something every AMOLED phone buyer experiences. Why are they picking on me?
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