US carriers halt Samsung Note 7 sales and replacements

Re:US carriers halt Samsung Note 7 sales and replacements by Inconel on Monday October 10, 2016 @02:51AM (#12675484)

From what I've read online the newer generation Samsung displays, those from say the last 1-2 years, have supposedly made big strides in dealing with "burn in". Apparently it's much less of an issue now, although still more common than LCD. Also, if I understand correctly, OLED doesn't actually suffer from "burn in" like LCD does, instead it's more "burn out" as the pixels, particularly the blue ones, degrade faster than other colors.

For what it's worth I have a Nexus 6P which uses a Samsung display and I haven't noticed any burn in yet, although I'm probably a very moderate user so that's not really saying much.

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Re:US carriers halt Samsung Note 7 sales and replacements by B1FF_PSUVM on Monday October 10, 2016 @03:03AM (#12675534)

The Lumia 925 from 2013 had a gorgeous OLED display, and no burn-in or ghosting problems that I noticed for a couple of years.

They did take care of shifting the (beautiful, built-in) nightstand clock screen a bit around, I think.

(Adjustable color reproduction, you could go for "vivid" if you wanted, normal was fine.)

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Re:US carriers halt Samsung Note 7 sales and replacements by Inconel on Monday October 10, 2016 @03:12AM (#12675566)

I had no idea the Lumia clock screen did that, it's a simple but brilliant solution to mitigate the problem. I'd love to see more work go into subtly shifting persistent UI elements around to avoid the issue. In particular I'd like to see the navigation keys and status bar on Android adopt something like that. I wonder if the UI elements would even need to shift locations or if it would be enough to shift colors so it isn't one particular color that degrades unevenly.

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