But even Samsung admits that a real - stripe RGB matrix is better than Pentile, for example here's some marketing image from Samsung showing how a non-Pentile display (the Super AMOLED Plus) is better than
the pentile Super AMOLED:
Samsung still uses
a PenTile Super AMOLED panel to deliver the punchy colours and excellent black levels, making it a great canvas for video and reading.
The One S will have
a pentile super amoled like the Vibrant, but the display resolution will be higher, qHD instead of WVGA.
Not exact matches
Samsung chose for the full polycarbonate version with corners of metal and
Super AMOLED display which has a sort of
Pentile structure!
Its
Super AMOLED capacitive screen supports 720 x 1280 pixels resolution, but using a matrix
PenTile type display less efficient than the traditional RGB.
Like the S3, the Note 2 boasts an HD
Super AMOLED display, but one that uses an RGB pattern instead of
Pentile.
The
Super AMOLED (
PenTile) panel features a 960 x 540 (qHD) resolution.
Samsung uses
PenTile technology in virtually all of their
Super AMOLED displays, which are used in most of the company's smartphones - including the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge.
DisplayMate, the display testing, measurement and calibration experts just got their hands on a pre-release Galaxy Note 3 production unit, with its 5.7» Full - HD
Super AMOLED display (386 PPI,
PenTile).
Most rumors suggest this will be a 4.5»
Super AMOLED Plus HD display (i.e. without
pentile)- which means that Samsung's production precision has improved.
Samsung simply calls this
Super-AMOLED because it uses
PenTile technology (it appears they are not using the
Super AMOLED HD brand, they simply calls this an HD
Super AMOLED display).
Samsung's two flagship mobile phones, the Galaxy S3 and the Note 2 both have 1280x720 HD
Super AMOLED displays, but they are quite different: the S3 uses a
Pentile sub-pixel architecture while the Note 2 has a unique RGB matrix.
Samsung's Galaxy S3 has a 4.8» 1280x720 HD
Super AMOLED (306 PPI, with
Pentile), a quad - core 1.4 Ghz CPU (dual - core 1.5 Ghz in the US models), 1 GB of RAM (2 GB in the US models) and an 8 mp camera (1080p video).
When Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 2, with its 5.5» 1280x720 HD
Super AMOLED display, I assumed it was a
Pentile display.
Some people really dislike
Pentile displays, but Samsung keep producing AMOLED with PenTile - even in their flagship devices such as the new Galaxy S3 (which sports a 4.8» 1280x720 HD Super A
Pentile displays, but Samsung keep producing AMOLED with
PenTile - even in their flagship devices such as the new Galaxy S3 (which sports a 4.8» 1280x720 HD Super A
PenTile - even in their flagship devices such as the new Galaxy S3 (which sports a 4.8» 1280x720 HD
Super AMOLED).
The Note's
Super AMOLED HD display has a far better resolution, but it's also bigger and the display uses
PenTile (as opposed to real stripe on the
Super AMOLED Plus SII).
The S3 has a 4.8» 1280x720 HD
Super AMOLED (with
Pentile), a quad - core 1.4 Ghz CPU (1.5 Ghz dual core in the US), 1 GB of RAM (2 GB in the US) and an 8 mp camera (1080p video) and lot's of new software features.
When Samsung launched the GS4, they said the
Super AMOLED display uses
PenTile.
It comes with a 4.3 - inch
Super AMOLED Plus screen (no more
Pentile Matrix), physical buttons just beneath the screen, 8MP rear camera / 1.3 MP front - facing camera, HDMI - out, and 1 GHz Hummingbird processor.
The Galaxy Note 3 is a large mobile phone (phablet) that sports a 5.7» Full - HD
Super AMOLED display (386 PPI,
PenTile), a 2.3 Quad - Core CPU (or a 1.9 Ghz octa - core in some markets), 3 GB of RAM, 32 / 64 GB of storage, a 13 MP camera (will be capable of 4K videos in some markets) and Android 4.3.
Newer
Super AMOLED displays use a different
PenTile matrix (Diamond Pixel pattern).
Samsung launched two new phones today for the Korean market - the Galaxy Note LTE and the Galaxy Nexus LTE - and both phones feature
Super AMOLED HD displays (with
PenTile technology).
At 230 ppi and below, actually,
PenTile is not recommended (as the Pentile pattern is too visible), and indeed Samsung uses Super AMOLED Plus displays (which use real - stripe and not Pentile) in the 230 ppi range or
PenTile is not recommended (as the
Pentile pattern is too visible), and indeed Samsung uses Super AMOLED Plus displays (which use real - stripe and not Pentile) in the 230 ppi range or
Pentile pattern is too visible), and indeed Samsung uses
Super AMOLED Plus displays (which use real - stripe and not
Pentile) in the 230 ppi range or
Pentile) in the 230 ppi range or lower.
Looking closely, you see a slight difference - because of the
PenTile technology of the
Super AMOLED (which Samsung no longer uses in the
Super AMOLED Plus display).
According to our information, that AMOLED display does not use
PenTile, which probably means it's a
Super AMOLED Plus panel, the same one that Samsung uses in their own Galaxy 7.7 Tab.
From what I can get, this «
Super AMOLED Plus» finally gets rid of the
pentile matrix and moves to the conventional (but better) RGB matrix.
The Note II does have a HD
Super AMOLED Plus (non
pentile) screen though for though buying it im sure you will enjoy it — my 2 cents
It seems that Samsung will use
Super AMOLED for
PenTile displays and
Super AMOLED Plus for non-
pentile display, regardless of pixel density.
While I feel the iPhone 4's «Retina» aka IPS LCD is a direct competitor as it is the same screen used in the iPhone 4S, the use of the old
Super AMOLED «
Pentile» Display instead of the «RGB Matrix»
Super AMOLED Plus is quite unfair.
It features a 4.65» HD
Super AMOLED display (1280x720, 316PPI, using
PenTile technology) with a curved glass, a dual - core 1.2 Ghz CPU, Full - HD video encoding, 5mp camera, NFC, 1 GB of RAM and 16 / 32 GB of internal memory.
Super AMOLED Plus drops the
PenTile matrix used in Samsung's previous generation AMOLEDs, and so have 50 % sub pixels (see explanation here).
The interesting bit is that it is said that this phone will sport Samsung's new
Super AMOLED HD display rather than the
Super AMOLED Plus used in regular S II phones - and that
Super AMOLED HD will use
PenTile matrix again.
Regardless of the resolution, the screen will always look just a little bit worse than a non
PenTile display like Samsung's
Super AMOLED Plus panels, and it's noticeable.
The original Note had a 5.3» 1280x800 OLED, the Note 2 had a 5.5» OLED display (1280x720, non-
Pentile) and the latest Note 3 sports a 5.7» Full - HD
Super AMOLED display (386 PPI,
PenTile).
The original
Super AMOLED used Samsung's
PenTile Matrix scheme (shown above on the right)- which uses a shared green pixel (RGBG).
It may be that the
Super AMOLED HD will be used for tablet displays as we speculated before, or it may be that this display will feature higher resolution (but not really HD) using
PenTile matrix.
It features a 4.65» HD
Super AMOLED display (1280x720, using
PenTile technology) with a curved glass, a dual - core 1.2 Ghz CPU, Full - HD video encoding, 5nmp camera, NFC, 1 GB of RAM and 16 / 32 GB of internal memory.
And they love the 4.65»
PenTile HD
Super AMOLED display, which is «simply beyond par.
For a while, Samsung begun using a display type called
Super AMOLED Plus, which does not use a
pentile sub pixel layout and also improves viewability in direct sunlight — traditionally a weakness for AMOLED.
Whereas the
PenTile - addled Galaxy S3 was clearly inferior to the HTC One X's
Super LCD2 display, the Galaxy S4's 1080p
Super AMOLED part is more accurately balanced than its predecessor, while retaining the perfect contrast that Samsung is famous for.
Samsung may say that the use of
PenTile on its
Super AMOLED HD displays is in order to keep it working for longer, but is the company holding out on us?
The Galaxy Alpha packs a 4.7 - inch
Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 720 × 1280 pixels, structured in a Diamond (
PenTile) matrix.
The Galaxy A5 sports a 5.2 - inch Full HD
Super AMOLED display, with a pixel density of roughly 424 ppi and Samsung's famous Diamond
PenTile pixel layout.