iPhone X – OLED Screen Compared to Note 8 and Pixel 2

The iPhone X has the new OLED screen compared to those of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and Google Pixel 2 to show us which one is better in daily use.

iPhone X has its new OLED screen compared to those offered by Samsung Galaxy Note 8 si Google Pixel 2, the differences between them being quite interesting, from many points of view. We are talking about a comparison made by measuring some of the features of the iPhone X screen compared to those of competing phones, and this is because the first OLED screen offered in an iPhone will attract a lot of attention.

iPhone X has a brighter screen than those integrated in Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and Google Pixel 2, the difference being quite large, over 25% compared to Android phones. You can see in the image below that the iPhone X screen offers an average brightness of 574 nits, compared to 438 nits for the Google Pixel 2 XL and 408 nits for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.

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The iPhone X also has the colors very well represented by the OLED screen, which does not have problems with oversaturation, as is the case with Samsung Galaxy Note 8 phones. It is well known that Samsung oversaturates the colors of its phone screens, even Google Pixel 2 displaying the images much more natural, as it happens in the case of the iPhone X, in the image below.

iPhone X OLED screen Note 8 Pixel 2 2

The iPhone X has an OLED screen compared to the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and the Google Pixel 2

The iPhone X also has a better white balance, and this helps a lot in displaying more natural colors on the new OLED screen, but we already know from the old iPhone models that Apple never had problems here. Apple has always known how to calibrate iPhone screens to display colors in the most natural way possible, and although the iPhone X has a new type of screen, the company hasn't changed anything in that regard.

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The iPhone X is also presented as having better viewing angles than those of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and Google Pixel 2 screens, the colors being less distorted in this situation. A well-known problem of OLED is color distortion when the images are viewed from sharp angles, Apple managing to bring this problem under control in the new iPhone X screen, something praised by many reviewers.

The iPhone X doesn't have as many pixels per inch for its OLED screen as the Google Pixel 2 and Samsung Galaxy Note 8, but that's not really that big of a problem. The iPhone X has 438 pixels per inch, compared to the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 which has 521 pixels per inch and the Google Pixel 2 which has 538 pixels per inch, the difference being hard to notice by the human eye, so you won't feel it too easily.

The iPhone X has an impressive OLED screen, and this will probably be praised by customers who will receive their phones starting today.