The Nexus One's Dirty Display Secret

[bfspider]

Here's an interesting article on the N1's display. Found it rather surprising!

http://gizmodo.com/5477320/the-nexus-ones-dirty-display-secret

 

[frenchtom]

yeah, eh... im not too worried about that. i think the N1 screen looks great and i never noticed any problems like that so i don t really mind

 

[nenco]

what a fake, if you look at that article with the nexus one, you can see the iphone photo perfectly

 

[AndyCr15]

I would agree. Granted, they do show in those examples (if true) that the iPhone has the edge on number of colours, but I've not yet notices that, so I'm not going to worry

 

[AndyCr15]

what a fake, if you look at that article with the nexus one, you can see the iphone photo perfectly

Ha ha, really? Someone make the image as an 800x480 jpg and we can test ourselves

 

[cypher21]

well

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/154221main_20060807_PIA07997_060802183716.jpg

Here you go, try for yourself. I have to say the pic looks better on my old 2g iphone

 

[bufodill]

noticed this when i transfered some files from my canon g11, flash pictures against a white wall gave just the bad result as the nasa-picture in the gizmodo article... too bad really, but doesn't mean too much in daily use for me

 

[Raymond77]

The photo of Mars sunset is a total red herring.

The issue is the gallery app, NOT the display.

Google Mars "sunset", open an image, and you'll see no banding. Save the image then view it in the gallery app, and the banding will suddenly appear.

 

[cypher21]

yeah indeed

looks like the gallary is doing some kind of bad compression on the picture

 

[seanhassars]

The photo of Mars sunset is a total red herring.

The issue is the gallery app, NOT the display.

Google Mars "sunset", open an image, and you'll see no banding. Save the image then view it in the gallery app, and the banding will suddenly appear.

when I went to the mars sunset link in this thread, via the browser, there was tons of banding, so I don't see how it's a gallery issue.

 

[Raymond77]

when I went to the mars sunset link in this thread, via the browser, there was tons of banding, so I don't see how it's a gallery issue.

I can't see much banding at all in the browser, this pic is the one I used for reference., certainly not what was shown on the Gizmodo site.

Saving it then viewing it in the gallery was a whole other kettle of fish, and THAT is what I'd equate to the image on Gizmodo.

 

[seanhassars]

I can't see much banding at all in the browser, this pic is the one I used for reference., certainly not what was shown on the Gizmodo site.

Saving it then viewing it in the gallery was a whole other kettle of fish, and THAT is what I'd equate to the image on Gizmodo.

try http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/154221main_20060807_PIA07997_060802183716.jpg and let me know if you get banding

 

[gunnner]

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[cekle]

I loaded the image in my browser on CM5 and there's a million bands. However, if you scroll around the picture, while you're scrolling it's beautiful. Only when the image isn't moving or zooming do the bands appear for me.

It looks like a bug more than anything else.

 

[Raymond77]

Okay, so I've just tried the one posted earlier in the thread, and yes there is banding, a lot of it, however if I touch the screen for a second it goes away and "drag" the screen down or up, then comes back when I remove my finger from the screen.

I still think this is software related, the image is so damn large that it must be being scaled down to be viewable, and maybe there's a compression issue there.

 

[OutlawPro]

when I went to the mars sunset link in this thread, via the browser, there was tons of banding, so I don't see how it's a gallery issue.

I did too.. UNTIL..I put my finger on it like I was going to scroll it around or pinch to zoom...then the banding went away. So, the problem is NOT the display but the software.

 

[Raymond77]

I loaded the image in my browser on CM5 and there's a million bands. However, if you scroll around the picture, while you're scrolling it's beautiful. Only when the image isn't moving or zooming do the bands appear for me.

It looks like a bug more than anything else.

Same here.

 

[nenco]

try .... and let me know if you get banding

True, but try to move the picture, or just touch the screen

 

[rotohammer]

When I use the image from post #6, I see the banding. If I use this image:

http://photos.upi.com/slideshow/lbox/7fc13f2a01438c144c13596ef3adaca2/MARS-ROVER.jpg

Which is at 800x616 pixels, I don't see the banding. That tells me its the scaling algorithm in the OS, app or GL library thats causing the stepped gradient, not the AMOLED display itself.

 

[seanhassars]

When I use the image from post #6, I see the banding. If I use this image:

http://photos.upi.com/slideshow/lbox/7fc13f2a01438c144c13596ef3adaca2/MARS-ROVER.jpg

Which is at 800x616 pixels, I don't see the banding. That tells me its the scaling algorithm in the OS, app or GL library thats causing the stepped gradient, not the AMOLED display itself.

this is more along the lines of what I was thinking. I thought maybe since the picture was being scaled down so much it was causing the banding. I love my N1 and the display is so nice that I can't even look at my G1 the same anymore.