Samsung Maintain Their Screens Are Better Than Apple’s

Samsung Electronics have thrown down the gauntlet to Apple, saying that iPhone 4′s display technology is no match for Samsung’s AMOLED.

Apple claims that iPhone 4′s ‘Retina Display’ as developed by LG and Hitachi, exhibits a higher resolution than the human eye. The display uses a liquid crystal display that has been developed to be visible from a wider range of angles. Liquid crystal displays have to be lit from the back and protected with a think layer of plastic or glass.

Samsung meanwhile, uses a technology called active matrix organic light emitting diode, AMOLED for short. The LEDs are integrated into the touchscreen and as the LEDs are the lights themselves, no backlight is necessary. this has power-saving implications.

The one drawback is resolution however. LED’s can’t be made smaller enough to get to the 960 x 640 pixel dimensions Apple wanted  in the new iPhone’s screen and Apple claims that the lower screen resolution of AMOLED can be detected by the human eye.

Samsung beg to differ however, with a spokesperson refuting Apple’s claims.“The visibility difference is only 3 to 5 percent,” he said. Samsung’s AMOLED displays have a resolution of 800 x 600, or 480,000 total pixels. That’s 80% of the total resolution of the iPhone, assuming a screen of the same size.

Together with the evidence earlier this week that Apple’s application processors are in fact the same Samsung processors used in the Samsung Wave, this is ammunition for the Korean giant’s claim to technological prowess.

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