Color saturation & accuracy

[XDA_RealLifeReview]

If you're colorblind, please disregard this thread. Rate this thread to express how you deem the color saturation and accuracy of the Samsung Galaxy S7's display. A higher rating indicates that you think that color accuracy is very high and saturation is excellent.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

 

[KoRoZIV]

Love the phone but the display has a strong blue tint. The white is OK only when looking perpendicular at the phone, anything more than 5 degrees angle and it's getting a blue tint.
Not sure if it's worth replacing whit a new one, I compared mine with some others in stores and all are about the same. Only the edge has better colors at angles.

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[kutulu32]

Love the phone but the display has a strong blue tint. The white is OK only when looking perpendicular at the phone, anything more than 5 degrees angle and it's getting a blue tint.
Not sure if it's worth replacing whit a new one, I compared mine with some others in stores and all are about the same. Only the edge has better colors at angles.

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I aggree with you about the blue tint . In my phone is also visible but not that strong.
But in general it has the best display i ever saw in a phone!

 

[Balian67]

I don't know what you all are talking about because when I was shooting a video outside the colors on my screen were so close to the actual colors of the things I was recording that it was crazy. Closer then any other phone I have ever used. Period. Not commenting on the rest of the stuff, but I was impressed with that

 

[KoRoZIV]

Just open Google page in your browser then look at it perpendicular and increase the angle slowly. Mine is getting blue tint pretty fast.

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[Jairus24]

Color saturation and accuracy are good and can be adjusted in the display settings, the only minor problem I have is color shifting when tilting the phone more than 20 degrees like the problem stated above. When it comes to screen uniformity on white and grey? Well I have been through 2 unit replacements before I finally got a uniformed screen without the pink tint on some part of the screen when viewing whites and greys.

 

[Toss3]

It varies from phone to phone so it isn't something that is going to be standardized across all phones.

 

[KoRoZIV]

Color saturation and accuracy are good and can be adjusted in the display settings, the only minor problem I have is color shifting when tilting the phone more than 20 degrees like the problem stated above. When it comes to screen uniformity on white and grey? Well I have been through 2 unit replacements before I finally got a uniformed screen without the pink tint on some part of the screen when viewing whites and greys.

Does your white get a blue tint at angles ? I see it on mine everywhere, on icons, text, etc. It's uniform but annoying.

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[KoRoZIV]

I tried to capture how are my colours. Photos taken with an nexus 5. Look at that orange... That was supposed to be red. That is how I see the red when I look perpendicular on the phone. Photo is taken at an angle because perpendicular shots show both phones red, not true.
The white is blue tinted at angle on s7, less intense white / grey on angle ( not pink ) on g4.
The s7 is in the box, I'll exchange it tomorow. I found one on display in another store and it had perfect collors at all angles, to bad it's not my store. If the next one has issues I'll ask for the money and buy from that other place.
Everything else was perfect on this phone, damn amoled lottery
9h sot, perfect Wi-Fi and gsm signal; the audio is mediocre at best, but I could live with that.


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[Visionikz03]

The blue tint is a byproduct of having amoled screen.

 

[KoRoZIV]

Not like it is on mine. I compared it with other s7's, one was about as bad and the other was perfect. On mine it's impossible to use the phone 5 minutes and not notice. Just tilting the phone a little (<5°) and the blue is visible. Normally the blue appears at much bigger angles, and I'm ok with that.
Anyways, no excuse for that " red. "

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[GripR]

On white screens my s7 has a warm tint when looking directly at it, but If I pan to the side or something it'll look crisp white.

 

[KoRoZIV]

I got the new one today. It has the same bright orange for red but the white is a little better. I still see the blue tint but not as strong as the other one and starts at a bigger angle.

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[RisinT96]

Just yesterday evening I noticed display is not uniform, the top part is a bit pinkish when displaying white, and the bottom is a tad greenish/yellowish (it's barely noticeable).

There's a big problem though when showing grey/dark blue (like the settings menu when using the "Material Dark" theme ):

About 1/3 of the screen (top part) is very dark compared to the much lighter bottom 2/3 of the screen.

I'm gonna call warranty tomorrow and try to get a replacement, unfortunately Samsung's importer in my country don't have very good customer service so I'm afraid they won't agree to replace it.

(btw I found a whole thread with ~100 pages on the S6 with the exam same problem I'm experiencing).

 

[superleeds27]

Just yesterday evening I noticed display is not uniform, the top part is a bit pinkish when displaying white, and the bottom is a tad greenish/yellowish (it's barely noticeable).

There's a big problem though when showing grey/dark blue (like the settings menu when using the "Material Dark" theme ):

About 1/3 of the screen (top part) is very dark compared to the much lighter bottom 2/3 of the screen.

I'm gonna call warranty tomorrow and try to get a replacement, unfortunately Samsung's importer in my country don't have very good customer service so I'm afraid they won't agree to replace it.

(btw I found a whole thread with ~100 pages on the S6 with the exam same problem I'm experiencing).

All I'm going to say is good luck getting one that's perfect. I was part of the s6 thread. People ended up getting worse units.

 

[andycohui]

Samsung's AMOLED has come a long way since the first generation and it is now really comparable to IPS (or even better)

 

[GeekyNitz]

I would actually prefer the blue tint if ever, however mine has a yellowish tint (only on white) and it kind of annoys me.

 

[drummerman]

I find the LightManager app useful to adjust tint.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koo.lightmanager&hl=en_GB

 

[caesar13th]

mine actually got very warm display, especially with 'basic' setup. Adaptive is much better, but the screen looks oversaturated.

 

[axelpix]

It has quite a strong pink tint when viewing perpendicular. The slightest tilt in any direction turns it into a light green tint.
The red test screen, seen from a 45deg angle shows orange as in the picture some posts before mine.

Looks like the red OLEDs are quite unreliable. They seem to have a narrower angle than the blue and green ones. Compensation of this effect turns the units either into pink or blue tinted items.

Difficult to deal with this behaviour as a sensitive photographers eye. Just ordered a second unit to compare it with.
Kind of longing back to my 4 year old lovely yellow warm tinted S4.