Motorola Droid Bionic
Pentile Display?
Really, Motorola? You couldn't figure out how to fit 540x960 REAL pixels into a 4.3" screen when Apple has been pressing 640x960 into a compact 3.5" package for almost a year and a half?
Give me a break... And I thought I wanted this phone.
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Give me a break... And I thought I wanted this phone.
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Neither can anyone else, by the way, at least outside of Japan.
Neither company actually makes displays; they just buy what's available from display manufacturers. Samsung and LG do have display divisions, but Apple doesn't, nor Motorola, not HTC.
Apple's "Retina" display is something they sourced from a regular display maker, but they get an exclusive on those industry-leading parts by investing in such suppliers. When Apple is paying the up-front costs for a huge new display factory, they tend to gets dibs on the cutting-edge panels coming off the line. Not every company (like Motorola) has billions in cash sitting around to make that kind of investment.
If a display makers were selling better qHD display components on the regular...
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Neither company actually makes displays; they just buy what's available from display manufacturers. Samsung and LG do have display divisions, but Apple doesn't, nor Motorola, not HTC.
Apple's "Retina" display is something they sourced from a regular display maker, but they get an exclusive on those industry-leading parts by investing in such suppliers. When Apple is paying the up-front costs for a huge new display factory, they tend to gets dibs on the cutting-edge panels coming off the line. Not every company (like Motorola) has billions in cash sitting around to make that kind of investment.
If a display makers were selling better qHD display components on the regular...
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I work in an electronics manufacturing facility, so I'm well acquainted with supply line issues and subcontracting out components. That said...
The Droid Incredible 1 (LCD edition) crammed 480x800 pixels into a 3.7 inch package. Approximately 251 dpi.
A 4.3" display using the same 251 dpi used on a phone launched over a year ago would measure 930x557 pixels.
That's a different aspect ratio than qHD (as expected) but awfully close to the stated resolution 960x540 on the Bionic (less than 1/10 of 1% diffeent) without compromising image quality by PenTiling!
And it's not technology locked up by Apple, either! These are old manufacturing techniques generating the 251 dpi; as opposed to the 300+ dpi in the iPhone.
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The Droid Incredible 1 (LCD edition) crammed 480x800 pixels into a 3.7 inch package. Approximately 251 dpi.
A 4.3" display using the same 251 dpi used on a phone launched over a year ago would measure 930x557 pixels.
That's a different aspect ratio than qHD (as expected) but awfully close to the stated resolution 960x540 on the Bionic (less than 1/10 of 1% diffeent) without compromising image quality by PenTiling!
And it's not technology locked up by Apple, either! These are old manufacturing techniques generating the 251 dpi; as opposed to the 300+ dpi in the iPhone.
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LCD technology is certainly capable of that DPI. I'm not arguing that.
I'm saying that Motorola doesn't own an LCD plant, so they're at the whim of whatever the LCD manufacturers produce. I don't understand pointing the finger at Motorola.
Those companies don't manufacture an infinite number of sizes and resolutions; each LCD manufacturer has a certain range of models (specific sizes and resolutions) that their factories are tooled to make.
LCD plants are a huge investment, and creating new production lines - or re-tooling existing ones - is expensive and takes time.
As far as I know, no one produces a qHD non-pentile LCD at that size... yet. I'm sure it's been requested, by companies like Motorola. But apparently no one has ramp...
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I'm saying that Motorola doesn't own an LCD plant, so they're at the whim of whatever the LCD manufacturers produce. I don't understand pointing the finger at Motorola.
Those companies don't manufacture an infinite number of sizes and resolutions; each LCD manufacturer has a certain range of models (specific sizes and resolutions) that their factories are tooled to make.
LCD plants are a huge investment, and creating new production lines - or re-tooling existing ones - is expensive and takes time.
As far as I know, no one produces a qHD non-pentile LCD at that size... yet. I'm sure it's been requested, by companies like Motorola. But apparently no one has ramp...
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I don't know why you guys knock the pentile display?? I happen to like it for several reasons, the biggest being that you see it easily in daylight. I've had several other high end vzw/sprint androind phones and have yet to find one that I can read outside as easy as this. Also, the colors aren't over-saturated like in other phones and are truer. My only gripe is that when zooming in on a photo it does pixelate, but I can live with that. It also uses less battery. If that doesn't make you happy NOTHING WILL!!
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klinger1108 said:
I don't know why you guys knock the pentile display?? I happen to like it for several reasons, the biggest being that you see it easily in daylight. I've had several other high end vzw/sprint androind phones and have yet to find one that I can read outside as easy as this. Also, the colors aren't over-saturated like in other phones and are truer. My only gripe is that when zooming in on a photo it does pixelate, but I can live with that. It also uses less battery. If that doesn't make you happy NOTHING WILL!!
You sound confused. Please research the difference between LCD, AMOLED, and PenTile. You're mixing strengths and weaknesses of different display properties.
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