Database Develop

Viewing angles...

So many conflicting reports regarding viewing angles.
What do does of you say that have gotten the N4 already? Are they really this bad:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Check from 8.36: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV3kvQDf0Do&list=UUgyqtNWZmIxTx3b6OxTSALw&index=6

mahwaha said:
So many conflicting reports regarding viewing angles.
What do does of you say that have gotten the N4 already? Are they really this bad:
Check from 8.36: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV3kvQDf0Do&list=UUgyqtNWZmIxTx3b6OxTSALw&index=6
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
2 questions.
a) Are there 7 people using your phone at any one time where the 1st and the 7th person will be looking at the phone from that angle?
b) If a) is no, do you use your phone alone, at that angle. If so, might I ask what for?
Do you want to have a phone with wide viewing angles, on a 4.7 inch screen, just to say you have it? Or do you intentionally and typically hold your phone at that angle whenever you're showing your friends/family something on your phone?

Viewing angles bother me a little. When I let someone see my phone and besides them it looks "milky" at some angles
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

mahwaha said:
So many conflicting reports regarding viewing angles.
What do does of you say that have gotten the N4 already? Are they really this bad:
Check from 8.36: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV3kvQDf0Do&list=UUgyqtNWZmIxTx3b6OxTSALw&index=6
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That pic seems unusally bad, but viewing angles are way worse than HTC one X.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

I'm with poison on this one do u really hold your phone at an angle for regular usage? I use my to watch videos at work with 4 people and haven't had a problem with the viewing angle. Had mine since Thanksgiving and its the best screen by far I've had. That's saying a lot to. I know u aren't comparing it to this but my I can't even use my 2 phones with super amoled now cause the colors look fake to me.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Mine is fine (great for an LCD) from all angles.. I don't really see why people make such a fuss over this. The screen only sacrifices a little bit of brightness at an extreme angle, but it's really not much of an issue.

A great feature that saves ur money from privacy film
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Yes there are people who look at their phone from that angle, just like there are people who view their screens under a magnifying glass and don't want to see pixels so need the screen to be 1 PPI over all the other phones.

dafuqq, you guys don't hold your phones at weird angles just to show off your awesome viewing angles like me??
Seriously though, there is something special about screens with perfect viewing angles imo (like the HOX). They are just simply stunningly flawless, no matter how you look at them. What's the reason for zerogap anyway when you can't look at the screen from an angle and see the text floating ontop?
OverTheBelow said:
Mine is fine (great for an LCD) from all angles.. I don't really see why people make such a fuss over this. The screen only sacrifices a little bit of brightness at an extreme angle, but it's really not much of an issue.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do you mean that you don't get the same distortion as in the image? Curious if there might be different panels.

I have a similar problem. It seems like every time I put my phone face down on a table I can only see a small amount of light on the sides. Also the brightness needs to be set pretty high to see it... weird.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

The viewing angle is fine.
If you have to look at your phone from that angle, you are looking it wrong™

This type of screen doesn't have the best viewing angle. Who cares? It is a phone and the other qualities of a zero gap ISP, lcd more than make up for it. Why would viewing angles be a major priority for any company designing a phone?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

Yeah the side viewing angles are much worse on the N4 than they were on my Galaxy Nexus. But as other have said, who cares? If I want to see what is on my phone's screen I will look directly at it.

I have no problems with the viewing angles. I think they're quite good. They're not the best out there but they're definitely above average.

The viewing angles do suck, if my phone is on the table and it lights up from a notification i have to pick the phone up to read it (not a big deal but annoying). or if i am trying to show a funny ass video from YouTube everyone has to gather around tightly just to see it clearly. I love the screen but the angles could be better.
Sent from my Nexus 4

What are you guys smoking? This phone has great viewing angles. It's bad when colors completely shift from an angle... which my phone doesn't do at all. In fact, most of the time I have to have my phone at min brightness at night. I get eye strain with this thing even on auto brightness at night. It's night and day better than the galaxy nexus. Even with melange setting with Trinity Kernel, the gnex had much worse viewing angles for me... almost a total shift to blue, and the brightness is night and day! I would be more worried about yellow spots and light bleed with this type of screen than the viewing angles.

Coming from a One X, you'll notice how bad the viewing angles are.
Coming from any other phone, you won't notice because it's what you're used to.
As for viewing your phone at an angle, I often have the phone on my desk and view it without picking it up. I'm one of the few who have been spoilt by the One X, so I certainly notice the bad viewing angles a lot.
Having said that, apart from the screen and the camera, the N4 kicks arse over the One X.

This thread shows how people cry about anything.
Besides, at anything more than absolute min brightness, I can read this whole thread perfectly fine at 170 or so degree. the ONLY thing is you get a metallic-reflection. But everything is crisp and bright.

off topic
can anyone see the capacitive sensors when the screen is off? I'm bringing it up because I can only achieve this at extreme angles when viewed in direct light.

crazyald said:
off topic
can anyone see the capacitive sensors when the screen is off? I'm bringing it up because I can only achieve this at extreme angles when viewed in direct light.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not really sure why you even bring this up... But yeah you can see them when the light hits right..

Has anyone made a photo of..

Has anyone made a scaled photo of what the Nexus 5 would look like next to the Nexus 4?
I'm curious about the size difference. It should be possible to do since we know the basic dimensions, even though the phone hasn't been released yet.

Visa Declined said:
Has anyone made a scaled photo of what the Nexus 5 would look like next to the Nexus 4?
I'm curious about the size difference. It should be possible to do since we know the basic dimensions, even though the phone hasn't been released yet.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Based on the dimensions, it's slightly smaller than the N4, but you can't really notice the difference
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

I love how people complains about 4.7" display being too small and going for the 5" display Nexus 5 which is nearly the exact same size when you compared the screen dimensions.
I love how people complains about the Nexus 5 with 5" display is going to be too big, even though its nearly the exact same size as the N4.

eksasol said:
I love how people complain about 4.7" display being too small and going for the 5" display Nexus 5 which is nearly the exact same size when you compared the screen dimensions.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's actually a marked improvement over 4.7", a 6.4% increase in screen real estate.

ryude said:
It's actually a marked improvement over 4.7", a 6.4% increase in screen real estate.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I know. It'll help offset some of the navbar, but overall my point is having 4.7" screen is not that bad.

In the original leaked photo, the new Nexus simply looks bigger.

Double post

It's closer to the camera that took the photo and is held up more perpendicular rather than slanted, ofcourse it will look bigger.

eksasol said:
I love how people complains about 4.7" display being too small and going for the 5" display Nexus 5 which is nearly the exact same size when you compared the screen dimensions.
I love how people complains about the Nexus 5 with 5" display is going to be too big, even though its nearly the exact same size as the N4.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, compared my GNex to a S4's screen the other day, even at 4.67", the difference wasn't that much. Wished the N5's screen size was closer to the G2's

eksasol said:
It's closer to the camera that took the photo and is held up more perpendicular rather than slanted, ofcourse it will look bigger.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Even after taking that into consideration, it still looks bigger to me. It doesn't matter to me anyways, it's just a curiosity thing.

harveydent said:
Based on the dimensions, it's slightly smaller than the N4, but you can't really notice the difference
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
this dimensions are not correct ... from the cases that people received it is clearly bigger than n4..
see pictures here .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481441&page=2

fkloznica said:
this dimensions are not correct ... from the cases that people received it is clearly bigger than n4..
see pictures here .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481441&page=2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great post, thanks!
I guess this answers my question, and I'm glad to see I wasn't imagining things
This is the case I ordered, except in white. Nexus 5 is definitely bigger.

fkloznica said:
this dimensions are not correct ... from the cases that people received it is clearly bigger than n4..
see pictures here .. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2481441&page=2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If the Nexus 5 is that much bigger than the 4, and the leaked images are correct i can't see how it will only have a 5" screen, especially with such small bezels. I know what the docs say, but things just don't seem to add up to me.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using xda app-developers app

dr.W said:
I know what the docs say, but things just don't seem to add up to me.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm expecting the Nexus 5 to be somewhere around the size of the Galaxy S4, since that phone has a 5" screen. I have plenty of friends with S4's, and their screens seem way bigger than that of my Nexus 4.
The bigger the better, I simply can't wait to get this phone.

Visa Declined said:
I'm expecting the Nexus 5 to be somewhere around the size of the Galaxy S4, since that phone has a 5" screen. I have plenty of friends with S4's, and their screens seem way bigger than that of my Nexus 4.
The bigger the better, I simply can't wait to get this phone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree it should like like this. there's a review on youtube of one of the N5 cases and the S4 fits the N5 case perfectly aside from the holes

intekmdma said:
I agree it should like like this. there's a review on youtube of one of the N5 cases and the S4 fits the N5 case perfectly aside from the holes
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Awesome post man!
After doing a search on youtube for this topic, the first video I clicked showed what you described exactly!
I am so stoked. The S4 is probably the perfect size phone for me, and to find out the Nexus 5 is similar has got me very excited. Thanks again for your response!

The dimensions being leaked show the nexus 5 to be about 4 millimeters taller than the nexus 4. Kind of sucks, all the rumors stated the N5 was going to have smaller dimensions all around than the N4. Phones are getting too big...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/28/5039968/nexus-5-specs-leaked-by-canadian-carrier-wind-mobile

ryude said:
It's actually a marked improvement over 4.7", a 6.4% increase in screen real estate.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
13.2% increase in screen area. You have to square it. (assuming length/width proportions remain the same).

qwerty12601 said:
The dimensions being leaked show the nexus 5 to be about 4 millimeters taller than the nexus 4. Kind of sucks, all the rumors stated the N5 was going to have smaller dimensions all around than the N4. Phones are getting too big...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/28/5039968/nexus-5-specs-leaked-by-canadian-carrier-wind-mobile
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah. I'm pretty disappointed in this. Now there's really not much incentive for me to switch from my S4...the phones are the same size, after all, and mine has a bigger battery.

harveydent said:
Based on the dimensions, it's slightly smaller than the N4, but you can't really notice the difference
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ERM, how can a perpendicular device be one size at the top and another at the bottom?
You also have the N4 being taller when we know it is in fact shorter than the N5.
Did you get a child to measure this or something?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA Premium HD app

Nexus 5 Screen Colour Reproduction

So Tweakers have run their test and have discovered that the N5 has some of the most accurate colour of any phone ever!
http://translate.google.co.uk/trans...s-schermkwaliteit-scherp-en-dik-in-orde.html
(Page has been translated for you).

I agree after having it for two days. The display is amazing. I thought it was washed out since I was coming from the G2 and note 3. But after my eyes adjusting for the past 2 days it truly is awesome.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I was just comparing Note 3 vs N5 and thought the same thing. Little washed out, but almost refreshing to the eyes that it's not so over saturated.
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

Coming from a Nexus 4 I really love the screen and there is a noticeable difference between them! It's like it feels very easy on the eyes.

Yes, our poor eyes have been hurt by these over saturated amoled [email protected] for ages, it's time for a change. We need accurate colours on our screen. Apple devices are the best in terms of colour accuracy and it's good see android devices catching up. Actually, HTC One is regarded as having the best overall screen if you read Anandtech's review.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

AppReviewBros said:
Coming from a Nexus 4 I really love the screen and there is a noticeable difference between them! It's like it feels very easy on the eyes.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yea when I compared the screen on the N4 to my N5 I was like:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Like I suspected, contrast is worse than on the N4. To be honest, I'd trade some color accuracy for better contrast and/or better viewing angles. Especially on a mobile device where color accuracy is not critical.

Jockson said:
Like I suspected, contrast is worse than on the N4. To be honest, I'd trade some color accuracy for better contrast and/or better viewing angles. Especially on a mobile device where color accuracy is not critical.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Viewing angles are critical? 99.9% of the time I'm looking at it straight on. I'd rather have accurate color, thanks
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

666fff said:
So Tweakers have run their test and have discovered that the N5 has some of the most accurate colour of any phone ever!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Agreed, it's a massive improvement on the Nexus 4. Here's my measurement report using my iDisplay3 colorimeter & Chromapure
'Pre-Cal' = Nexus 4 (stock)
'Post-Cal' = Nexus 5 (stock)
Calibration report
very impressive, and is very similar to the one tested above. I could tweak the green down a bit - and dE2000 number (a standard measure of the error) over 3.0 needs to be tweaked.

The Nexus 4 was one of the poorest displays ever produced last year. Man that was horrible. Staring at the Nexus 5's screen is pretty noticeable difference.
Sent from my Nexus 5

http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Google-Nexus-5-Review_id3479
Here's another review of the Nexus 5, look at the color comparison charts. You can add phones to the chart and check out their ratings, color accuracy compared to target colors, etc. I'm definitely going to look at this later tonight.
Also, I was just in the mall and a kiosk had a Nexus 5 on display. Naturally, I immediately gravitated to it and compared it to my Galaxy S4 Active. I set both phones on max brightness, and set my GS4A's screen mode to 'Movie', supposedly the most accurate and least saturated mode. The color accuracy of the Nexus 5 is better than my GS4A by a small but noticeable amount, but the whites seemed (by comparison) slightly more yellow and warmer. Is that what's known as a more natural white? My GS4A's whites tend to be colder and slightly more bluish by comparison.

I'm coming from a Galaxy Nexus which had such a grainy screen that it felt like I was looking at a newspaper almost. Whites were yellow & blacks were purple sometimes. That was a truly hideous screen. The Nexus 5 screen blows my mind in comparison(obviously). People say it's washed out, but I kind of like it when compared to the PLS display on my Note 10.1 which I actually really like as well.

[hfm] said:
Viewing angles are critical? 99.9% of the time I'm looking at it straight on. I'd rather have accurate color, thanks
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Software can fix color accuracy but it can't fix viewing angles.

The display is decent but I would have actually preferred a shrunken version of the screen on the nexus 7 2013. It has much better contrast and MUCH better view angles. I wouldn't have minded if the nexus 5 was 323 ppi if it had those characteristics. You can't see the pixels on the nexus 7 anyway.
---------- Post added at 12:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:47 PM ----------
Jockson said:
Like I suspected, contrast is worse than on the N4. To be honest, I'd trade some color accuracy for better contrast and/or better viewing angles. Especially on a mobile device where color accuracy is not critical.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree. I wish they had gone with an IPS panel with an A/TW polarizer like the nexus 7 2013 has.
A/TW IPS vs regular IPS

Maybe it's just me but I really can't tell the difference between the screens aside the fact that the nexus 5 has better whites
I have used AMOLEDS and I actually returned to a note 2 cos the 3 was too expensive and I don't like the S4. All the screen talk made me buy a nexus 5 but honestly, I regret it.
I have kitkat features installed on my note 2...compare screens, aside the yellowish tint with amoleds, i really dont know what the fuss is about. Are your eyes that sensitive or mine isn;t just good ?

I'm still waiting for the colour comparison of this YouTuber. www.youtube.com/user/TheAngelofmusic1989
Her videos are incredibly detailed, no joke it goes for an hour. She made some good screen colour comparison for the s4 and HTC one I think.
Sent from my Nexus 7

Contrast (true blacks)

How well do you know your fifty shades of grey? Rate this thread to express how good the LG V20's display contrast is. A higher rating indicates that black is true black, rather than a very dark gray.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Definitely not a Note 7, which sets the standard for true blacks. I'll bet this screen is easier on the battery.

douger1957 said:
Definitely not a Note 7, which sets the standard for true blacks. I'll bet this screen is easier on the battery.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm going to disagree. The Note7 is a standard for "true black" because it is actually true black. An LED/OLED/AMOLED/etc display accomplishes black by simply shutting off an LED pixel, thus creating a 100% TRUE black. (Also, LED being off is using 0 energy).
LCD's on the other hand require backlighting, thus anytime the screen is on, the entire thing is lit. This is why no LCD will ever accomplish a 100% true black. It's also the reason why LCD's tend to be more of a battery hog because all pixels, even black ones, require lighting which requires energy.
To see the difference, put an AMOLED and LCD screen phone beside each other in a dark room and do a google image search for 000000, click one of the results and view it full screen. The AMOLED phone will appear to be off and the LCD phone will still be giving off light.

{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
from phonearena.com

I don't know if everybody know this but the note 7 is irrelevant.

techrider6262 said:
I don't know if everybody know this but the note 7 is irrelevant.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
DING DING DING We have a winner!!!!

Note 4 Note 7 no difference for this discussion same AMOLED panel.
the LGv20 has a nice screen. very nice screen in fact (I now have one) it is not REMOTELY as good as my note 4 screen.
way way way to high a color temp on the panel. its damned near blue. not remotely white. when I use low warming it helps a little but not much. you get used to it but you really really notice in large areas of white.
the blacks are ok but again. horrid if you are used to an oled panel. I hope LG puts an oled panel in the V30 since I know they have the tech (their oled televisions are drop dead sexy alas way way outside of anything remotely in my budget)
what helps is that it has the 1440p panel. this really is the ideal resolution for a 5.5 to 6 inch panel where 1080p is just lacking noticeably. you adjust to the high temperature you don't adjust to low resolution.
sadly so far the camera is crap at night. grrr. was hoping for better. have not really tested in in daytime yet though I expect it will be fine.

nerys71 said:
Note 4 Note 7 no difference for this discussion same AMOLED panel.
the LGv20 has a nice screen. very nice screen in fact (I now have one) it is not REMOTELY as good as my note 4 screen.
way way way to high a color temp on the panel. its damned near blue. not remotely white. when I use low warming it helps a little but not much. you get used to it but you really really notice in large areas of white.
the blacks are ok but again. horrid if you are used to an oled panel. I hope LG puts an oled panel in the V30 since I know they have the tech (their oled televisions are drop dead sexy alas way way outside of anything remotely in my budget)
what helps is that it has the 1440p panel. this really is the ideal resolution for a 5.5 to 6 inch panel where 1080p is just lacking noticeably. you adjust to the high temperature you don't adjust to low resolution.
sadly so far the camera is crap at night. grrr. was hoping for better. have not really tested in in daytime yet though I expect it will be fine.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So turn down the blue. Nougat lets you.

Hmm.. Coming from a note 7... The 7 still has a better screen.. But increase brightness to 60 and up and it looks really great. Can't complain.

Yeah the blacks cant compare to my note 4 but at least the viewing angle is good enough. Dont notice any colour shift at any reasonable angle.
Sent from my LG-H990 using Tapatalk

Has anyone fiddled with the Color settings under Accessibility menu? I wonder if those would help.....anybody have success?

Zeromus2003 said:
Has anyone fiddled with the Color settings under Accessibility menu? I wonder if those would help.....anybody have success?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's already a thread all about it

It's not much of a thread tbh. I've just read it.

Amoled vs LCD. Note 4 vs V20. You win some you lose some. Having come from Amoled screens (Nexus 6, Note 4, etc) you get spoiled by blacks. However, the colors on the V20 are fantastic. I am a weekend pro photographer and can tell you I feel the V20 is way more natural than the over saturated colors of an Amoled screen. Also viewing angles on the V20 maintain colors while the Note 4 does not.
But back to black levels. This is good for an LCD screen and turning off the top display improves it a lot. The black level is good but it is a dark grey. But when you watch Netflix etc in the dark it is not bad at all. Not Amoled good but definitely not bad.

OK so having done some more watching with the lights totally off, I can say this is a disaster in terms of black levels. I watched 10 minutes of Lord Of The Rings and pretty much stopped.

Question Do you have rainbow effects on your Pixel 7 screen?

A user on Reddit posted that they had rainbow effects on their P7 screen when the screen was held at an angle. I did a little searching, and found that this was fairly common on the P6 screens as well. Apparently Google found that this was a normal effect and in tolerance with their manufacturing specifications.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pixel7series/comments/y3af8s
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/qo6wz7
Do you see any rainbow effects on your P7 screens?

I noticed it yesterday when the phone was about three feet away from me on the table. Maybe at a 45 degree angle it rainbows, but holding it, or being close to it, shows no signs of it. It doesn't bother me since the way I "normally" hold and use it do not produce the effect. Only if it's at a big enough angle. Even so, it is very minor. When I did see it I had to move my head back and forth to really notice it. Otherwise the screen just looks a little off color on parts of the screen. No biggie.

condor97 said:
A user on Reddit posted that they had rainbow effects on their P7 screen when the screen was held at an angle. I did a little searching, and found that this was fairly common on the P6 screens as well. Apparently Google found that this was a normal effect and in tolerance with their manufacturing specifications.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pixel7series/comments/y3af8s
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/qo6wz7
Do you see any rainbow effects on your P7 screens?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The phenomenon of lenses causing light to split into its component parts is called "diffraction". Any transparent medium where light travels at a different speed from the medium it came from will exhibit this phenomenon.

Mine has a slight blueish and pink tint on white at angles. I'm not sure what to do. It's not bad, I don't really notice it. I would be happy to exchange it if I knew there were some displays that didn't have this issue.

Mine has that too. But geezes, you have to be looking at the phone at an extreme angle to notice it.

Thanks for posting your experiences guys. I tried to edit the poll to reflect a vote where the issue is present but doesn't cause a problem. You should be able to change your vote. Hopefully I didn't screw things up there, and if I did, my apologies.

I notice it but the bigger issue is the green tint, just looks awful compared to my calibrated monitors.
My old S8 had a bit of a reddish tint but the colors looked better overall if a bit oversaturated. Might try to root and use Sa2ration or something.

My Pixel 6 Pro did. The Pixel 7 Pro does not.

Ok I can weigh in now. I see the exact same effect on this phone as my other oled phones. When you look at the screen at more extreme angles, you get a bluish tint to white screens. Really not an issue for me, and I don't consider it a rainbow effect (though I think it is the same thing).

On my pixel 7 I get the rainbow effect on white backgrounds when looking directly at the screen not at an angle. The screen on my Samsung a53 is much better then the screen on my pixel 7

people cant enjoy the phone for what it is...just buy the damn thing and enjoy it, its not like its noticeable if you looking at it from a normal view

I think it also depends on the kind of person you are. At work I asked 10 people and only one colleague noticed a slight shift. My iPhone XS Max back in the days also had this issue. I traded it in and got a new one, which had the same issue. I then used the phone for another 2 years and aside from the first week it didn't bothered me anymore.
They all have it. Some more than others. If you're looking for it, it's there. If you just use your phone it will disappear and just leave an excellent phone to enjoy.

Vio281 said:
people cant enjoy the phone for what it is...just buy the damn thing and enjoy it, its not like its noticeable if you looking at it from a normal view
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i agree

Maybe a bit, but only at extreme angles. Any normal angle I'd look at my phone I can't see anything.

Guyinlaca said:
My Pixel 6 Pro did. The Pixel 7 Pro does not.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
My p6 pro doesn't have it, even at angles and full brightness, weird

Mine has bluegreenish and redish wave-tints on angles displaying white backgrounds. But I got enough other problems in life. So ... idc

I have had three Pixel 7 (non Pro) - all of them had the same rainbow effect.
And this is quite annoying because you can not really keep 100% the same angle by reading or looking at the display while holding the smartphone in the hand. You always move a bit - and then the blue or red waves are rolling over your screen.
For me the display is one of the most important components - the display you are looking at all the time you are using the device.
But that's just my point of view...

At first I had no clue what people were talking about, but after turning the brightness to 100% and tilting the phone in an angle I'll never use (since its impossible to look at the screen since its so tilted) - then yes.
I do have the rainbow-effect on my Pixel 7.
However, its a non-issue.
I had to tilt it even more than the person in the video from OP,
but even that angle seems like a non-issue tbh.
Might as well be my protective glass for all I know.
I'll never see it unless I tilt to an unusable angle.

chopt51 said:
Mine has a slight blueish and pink tint on white at angles. I'm not sure what to do. It's not bad, I don't really notice it. I would be happy to exchange it if I knew there were some displays that didn't have this issue.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Upgrade to the Pixel 7 Pro since it doesn't have this issue since they didn't cheap out on the display. Seems they didn't change the screen from the Pixel 6 since XDA actually mentioned this in the review they did on the screen: "Rigid OLEDs are an older construction that is now usually only used in budget phones...Also, on rigid stacks, the refraction of the light transmitted through the glass layers causes unwanted rainbow viewing angles that you simply don't see on flexible OLEDs."
I personally find it annoying but only because I know about it now and only really noticeable if you looking at the phone at extreme angle like sitting on your desk or other flat surface. My fancy expensive larger S7+ Samsung tablet also has same issue so obviously doesn't bother enough people for them to spend more to upgrade the display to get rid of it. Also, pretty anoying that my much older LG v35 phone doesn't have this problem either since it was flexible OLED, but as you can see flexible OLED easier to break around edges, another reason I went with Pixel 7 instead of the Pixel 7 Pro.
Pixel 7 Pro: it does not have any rainbow issues.
Here's a pic I took of my S7+, iphone SE, LG V35 and Pixel 7 and can u guess which one is the Pixel? Easy to spot since only other one than the large S7 with the rainbow colors. Also, as you can see from the pic most noticeable on a clear white background so if you work or look at a lot of that like say documents at angle might be annoying enough but not to upgrade to the Pixel 7 Pro just to get rid of it. Even if you did you would still get bluish color like on the LG V35 OLED display at bottom because that's just how OLED works
Why do I see a color shift when I look at the display from an angle?​
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}