Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Do high-res smartphones even matter?”.
It’S 20/20 and if you haven’t, got a quad HD display on your smartphone. What are you doing? We quality displays being so sharp and so beautiful, not having one in a smartphone is a crime, or at least that is public perception. What, if the this size? Let’S be honest, unnecessarily large resolution displays are things that we can live without on a smartphone think about it. You get better performance due to the fact that the frames are small oming.
The SOC can pump out more of them for high refresh rate displays, lower production cost mean a lower sale price and, most importantly, much better battery life. Now that all sounds very enticing, but we’ve got to loop back to the question: can we live without quad? Hd displays to test this. I invited 10 smartphone users aged 16 to 30 to see if they could tell the difference between two phones at different resolutions. We’Ve got a one plus seven pro at full, HD plus and a one plus 70 pro at quad HD, plus. Both are set using the option in the settings menus and for good measure. Both are pinned at 100 % brightness to alleviate any brighter is sharper ambiguity. Let’S see how they got on okay on the home screen.
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As you can see here, I can’t tell much of a difference. To be honest, I think I’d have to put them next to each other. To properly have a look, though, there’s a little bit of hesitation and a few of the participants were actually unsure as to which was sharpest, they kind of just guessed. If we all turn off the fan boy for just a minute, I know it can be difficult for just a minute and look at things objectively. It is almost impossible to tell the difference between a quad, HD smartphone and a full HD smartphone at this distance, which is typically between 10 to 12 inches so about a foot away from your face, especially if you haven’t got them side-by-side and most of you, I’m Betting, don’t have two of them side-by-side now. That’S the experiment. The fact that we don’t have a majority leans more, a favor of the ante quad HD argument, and that’s only the start. Oneplus devices come in an automatic, switching mode as standard to save battery life and Samsung.
Well, they just put their phones in full HD mode out of the factory, even the big Galaxy S and note models and they’ve been doing that for years. We know for a fact that Full HD smartphones fare much better and battery life tests down quad HD smartphones and my fantastically wonderful colleague, Robert Trix did a whole thing on this I’ll leave. The link to the article in the video description so go and check that out because there’s a lot of cool data and analysis in there. In a nutshell, you can expect between 10 and 20 percent, better battery life by going with a phone with a lower resolution display with the same internals and same battery size, that’s very different to what we’re doing today, which is just simply turning the resolution down.
That’S going to yield far worse results, however, still a net positive, because whilst it does help to turn the resolution down in the settings, you still have to illuminate all of those pixels on the screen anyway. So you’re not really turning much of the display off only making it easier for the system on a chip to produce frames which in turn uses less power which makes battery life better, and that brings us right back to the beginning. It’S the original question of quad HD displays worth having on your smartphone, and the simple answer is no: now I’m guessing a lot of you were already used to quad HD displace, so to go back to a full HD display. It just seems kind of ridiculous.
A bit backwards, and that’s very true, but a lot of people complain about battery life as well and performance, and if you could eat more of that out, just by going with a slightly lower resolution display, it would make the world of difference. I mean you guys even said so in this poll, over 50 % of you didn’t care if your display was over full HD or prefered full HD over going with a quad HD panel anyway, I’m going to leave a link in the video description to more of The anti quad HD argument a full article that I wrote that has everything in way more detail there. However, this video is meant to be more for the experiment. If you want to check that out I’ll leave a link in the video description along with Robert triggers post as well, because that is very insightful and very useful to know before moving on to my post anyway, I want to thank you all so much for watching What do you think? Do you really hate the idea of going to a full HD display, or do you really not care? Thank you all.
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