Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone
Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone - Landscape Apple.com
Landscape view of Apple.com on the Droid (top) and on the iPhone (bottom).
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Droid whites
In looking at each of these pics, the white on the Droid seems very yellow. Is this eactually the case or is it a product of the photo?
jje@...9th Nov 2009 -
Re: Droid whites
The white background on my Droid background is pretty white. The Droid can be set to adjust its brightness based on the ambient light: I wonder if it was just deadening the white in response to the camera/camera flash.
bcswartz9th Nov 2009 -
Very yellowed. The contrast stinks, too.
In every one of those images, I prefer the iPhone display for its higher contrast and whiter whites. Just more proof that resolution isn't everything, I guess. I also noticed that the HTML renderer distorted the aspect ratio of some images displayed on the Droid. Overall, it looks like they used a crappy screen to save a few bucks so they could add the other hardware features of the Droid.
BillDem9th Nov 2009 -
Looks like a laundry detergent commercial
...where the Droid is the leading other brand...
Tigertank4th Dec 2009 -
RE: Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone - Apple.com (Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone)
I too would be very bothered by the yellowness of the screen if these pics are acurate.
bobt@...9th Nov 2009 -
They aren't accurate
The screen is neither yellow, dim, or blurry. The only time it is dim is when you turn the back-light off. There is a widget to do this and manage all of your power features from your desktop. Whoever took the pictures either had inferior camera equipment, poor picture taking skills, a broken phone, or was intentionally skewing the results. My only complaint is the battery life, and I'm ordering the extended battery to deal with this. To be fair though, when my battery drained quickly, I was using Google Maps navigate as my GPS without a car charger for about 1.5 hours, and I was showing off the speak to search and other cool features to some clients. Normal use probably won't drain it quite so quickly. Also, I picked up a car charger for when I use the GPS function.
Jeffesmi17th Nov 2009 -
Question about the YouTube test
I remember my little Droid booklet mentioning that there was an option you had to choose to view YouTube videos in high-def. Did you have that setting turned on in the YouTube comparison shot?bcswartz9th Nov 2009 -
YouTube Test
It's obvious here that the Droid pictured in this comparison test of YouTube playback is NOT set to view in high quality mode. When playing back video on YouTube, if you click on the menu button, a pop up window appears and you can click on "More" and then "Watch in high quality" versus the default of normal quality. I did a side by side comparison of the Droid with both an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 3GS and the Droid kicked butt. This was when both phones were on their respective 3G networks. When the iPhones were put on wifi, then the quality of the videos were closer.
homsie18th Nov 2009 -
RE: Screen Shootout: Droid vs. iPhone - Apple.com (Screen Shootout: Droid v
It looks like the text/images are smaller on the Droid. I personally
like the clarity of iphones. Ultimately if comes down to user
interface and hardware which Apple excels in. Google might be
the new Microsoft, but they have a lot of work cut out for them. I
think their target should be Blackberry and Windows Mobile rather
than Apple. Apple design is hard to compete with, especially on a
competitively priced product.
jeff.fostermedia@...9th Nov 2009 -
Higher Res ...
It's a higher resolution screen, therefore you
can display smaller text (and thus more
of
the screen) but you don't have to. You are not
losing clarity however, in fact the opposite is
true. For example if you were to zoom the
screen
(or change the settings) so that the text were
the
same size as that of the iPhone, then you'd
notice
that the text on the Droid is clearer and
smoother
than the iPhone text.
diom19829th Nov 2009 -
Screen Resolution
Maybe it's just me but the screen on the Droid looks terrible! Its all washed out and yellow.
Is it just me?!?
The article rants about how much better the Droid screen is but from these pictures, it doesn't look that way to me.
ITGuy709th Nov 2009 -
they both suck
at displaying information. From my perspective, they are
approximately equally inadequate when compared to a
desktop.
dave_helmut9th Nov 2009 -
Compared to a desktop?
Yes, they are inadequate when compared to a desktop, but I can't carry my desktop around on my belt.
Dauplat9th Nov 2009 -
ummm..we're talking MOBILE here..
"at displaying information. From my perspective, they are approximately equally inadequate when compared to a desktop. "
Perhaps you missed the point of this article. It has ZERO to do with a desktop experience which is obviously going to be totally different from a mobile device.
Try to stick with the program.
zdnet_bozz9th Nov 2009 -
ofcourse they do
Ofcourse they both suck at displaying data as good as a full computer but thing is full computer really sucks at fitting into my pocket.
arvindsgulati9th Nov 2009
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