Not a fan of high refresh rate. Battery is my main concern although not so much but it’s definitely eating more with 120Hz. If the hardware specs is already good enough, then I don’t really need fast scrolling experience. Gaming wise, well, 60 FPS is more than enough for a phone

Amoled

60Hz Amoled.

If you play fps games to for IPS, if you watch movies, videos etc buy the amoled.

60hz amoled

If I’m going to use that phone for 2-3 years then I prefer the 120hz IPS screen. I hate AMOLED screen phones after 1 year of use since everytime I scroll there’s a black smudge that follows the scrolling.

don’t forget the burn in issue that all Amoled screen phones eventually get.

120hz IPS. I prefer IPS anyway. Given that it’s full screen. IPS with punch holes/notches have some shadowing.

Nah, I think every company has its plans and strategies written for the next 10 years. People just need to understand that Apple is not a trendsetter, in fact they implement some functions way later than Android based manufacturers and present them as inovations.

60hz amoled. Wouldn’t change

75hz amoled…. I know it’s odd but it’s an upgrade over the 60Hz (tested on overclocked screen of mi 9T)

If the IPS is anything comparable to Apple’s LCD displays, then 120HZ IPS for sure

75-90 Hz AMOLED would be nice but there are other specs with more priority and there isn’t a smartphone out there for every spec combination

How about 90hz amoled?

Totally agree with you but 75Hz is the best sweet spot to give a taste of higher refresh rates without giving up on battery and cost too much 😆

Pretty easy. IPS has more subpixels, and more Hz.

60hz AMOLED, drains less battery from low hz and true blacks, better blacks, better angles, better colors
120hz ips, stai s a lot.more.battery from the fact that it is always on even when the screen is black or.msotly black, has more hz so it needs more gpu and cpu and ram to handle the high refresh rate. Blacks are dark grey, contrast is washed out, colors are washed out.

And your eyes cannot really perceive a real noticeable difference between 60 and 120hz. I mean. It is there but at what cost? Lower phone performance, worse screen image experience, worse battery life. The benefit of 120hz does not compete with the drawbacks.

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Ok thanks.

I’m concerned about burn-in on an Amoled screen. My S8 Plus I use now has Burn-in and it is not pleasant at all. Ips screens can get burn-in?

120hz IPS screen, because most of all the apps require scrolling, like Instagram, whatsapp and even the home screen, notification bar, etc… I own a poco x2 and it’s a charm using the 120 hz display.

It rarely happens… This is a problem old amoleds had. And in the lifetime of 2-3 years of your phone is not that probable to happen.

Ips screens can get burn one but you have to keep it on full blast for. Months at a time to get anything.

Cycled graphics on AMOLED prevent burn ins. That means to change the layout from now and then.

Amoled is better in any way

But the Galaxy S8 isn’t even all that old. I keep hearing people repeat “OLED doesn’t burn in anymore, that’s an old OLED thing” any time a new phone would come out, probably since the S5, and yet a year or so later there’s people talking about how their screen burned in.

Cycling graphics does help and I’m sure moving away from black status bar and navigation buttons did a lot to prevent it as well, but in general I’ve just not seen significant improvements in OLED lifespan. They still degrade rapidly and there’s a good chance you’ll see burn in way before the 3 year mark.

I’d just pick a solid IPS display in general. No Pentile, no screen degradation (usually, unless they fuck it up and it starts ghosting after a while), better uniformity. Unfortunately a good IPS screen in combination with a good phone just doesn’t really exist anymore. The Poco X2 seems like one of the better ones, but still pretty midrange.

Both are premium enough so I won’t care as long as the phone meets other expectations I have for it (good camera, battery life, performance, nfc, etc)

custom ROM will probably have some support for the mix 3. personally I continue to use the mix 3 even without update. even more if it’s to have a iPhone /s

Ok, thx

Honestly the Mix 3 5G is to this day the best value phone I’ve ever used. I got it for €250 which was a bargain but the lack of software updates is disappointing to say the least. One can only hope they skip MIUI 11 and update it to 12 in the future.

Amoled. You can’t beat the way colors look on an OLED. Plus always on display is very convenient. More Hz displays is more of a pc or laptop thing. On phones it’s not as useful and doesn’t change much.

What is the average lifespan of your phone. S8 is available since April 2017.. that is a 3 years old phone.
On the other hand…. I had an s8, no burn in. I think you are using the phone wrong. Excess heat, excess light, will cause your phone to degrade when it comes to the screen burn in. So are you keeping your phone in direct sunlight? Are you keeping your phone warm or hot all the time? If yes then that is your fault. Take care of your things and they will last. Use them like trash and a.new phone can become damaged in Leeds than a year.

My brother had an iPhone, kept it on the dashboard all the time, the screen is shit now and it was an ips… IT al comes down to knowing your strengths and your weaknesses… Even with the burn in. I see no disadvantage with an AMOLED.

Amoled – nicer colours, and 60hz is more common.

3 years is if OP got his phone at release and just started noticing burn in. And even that would still be pretty pathetic. Especially as phones are expected to last longer and longer.

And my bigger point was the S8 display panel isn’t terribly outdated. I’ve seen nothing to indicate that the S10 or S20 have been seriously improved in that regard. You always hear about brightness, accuracy, refresh rate, but the last time Samsung bragged about lifespan was probably with Diamond Pentile introduced in the S4.

Basically all OLED phones I’ve seen that had some good use on them have been noticeably worn. My S3, though old, looked like shit after a year and a half and I never abused it. I’ve seen people complain about burn in that happened within months. Look at how Jerryrigeverything’s S8 looked like by the time he replaced it. You shouldn’t need to baby a phone for it to last.

One word : AMOLED

yes, mix 3 was the flagship/innovative phone of Xiaomi, to show what they can do, but here we are 2 years later and no update.

for miui honestly I prefer miui 11 for now. on miui I could do 1 lot of customisations with a root apps. now I can change nothing and the 2 most frustrating things for me is the incostitency when disabling animation, and the non efficient control center (which can be disable but the classic one don’t work anymore with my tweaks so it’s still far from goodness of the customisations I was able to get. if the next beta update brick my phone I’ll reflash miui 11

This is actually subjective! Some people can really notice the difference in FPS, while some wont.

120hz Amoled screen

#120Hz IPS no doubt!
I’m in the minority here, I know, but this is subjective 😛
Some people can really notice the difference in FPS, while some wont.

If it’s not xiaomi’s ips then I would go ips.

I would like 90hz+ AMOLED phone with reasonable price.

Maybe for you, but I can’t even tell the difference between 30 and 60!

FWIW I’m young and my vision is fine.

Hard to justify 120 if it drains the battery. At the end of the day a phone is useless if the battery is dead. That’s the main reason I’ve never got a Pixel phone, terrible battery

It’s a very good phone, and I feel that it’s worth every penny till the 23,000 rupees (Indian currency) mark. The only disadvantage so far that I see is that it doesn’t have an amoled display, and I personally am not the biggest fan of the notch. Other than that the 120hz screen, the beautiful IPS display, and it’s quick AF charging more than makes up for it.
Go for it!

How long does the battery last?

The battery lasts me a whole day WITH 120hz running 🙂

Amoled

AMOLED everyday!

Have you been using it for a long time? Does it have any bad effect on the screen in the future?

I’m not using it because I don’t use my phone often so I prefer have a better battery life, even if the change is small. + I didn’t see a big difference between 60 and 74hz.

for the people who used it I didn’t heard anybody complaining about they’re screen broken after using the overclock. my personal thought is that yes is damage a little more the screen that usual, but not enough to be perceptible. screen keep working years and years after, they get broken by a fall before they can died of usage, so a overlclock will probably not change this behaviour, that like a normal screen you’ll change your phone or broke the display with a fall before it can die because of the usage

A tablet is much different from a phone. Especially an apple product. Maybe it is fine for you, but I notice a massive difference and can not switch back to 60hz on my poco x2
A friend of mine with his 90hz OnePlus 7 pro can not shift back to 60hz as well

I have a Mi8 with no burn in after almost 2 years I still have my old Galaxy S5 also no burn in.

Side effects : yes .. a greenish tone in low brightness (not so much but noticeable), no users reported damage to their screen as long as you go for 75hz (it can go ti 82Hz)

Totally agreed, not to mention PWM and terrible tint from different viewing angles. Pure marketing. Bad IPS panel most of the time relates to a poor quality control, i mean look at the Ipad or LG G7 thinq panels – they’re gorgeous. With Amoled – technology itself is full of flaws and It’s a facts, I’m surprised how many just ignoring that. I personally consided about switching to redmi k30 5g, but that stupid punch holes and terrible sound kinda deal breaker at the moment. It is also interesting what microled technology from Apple would look like in comparison to the Amoled.

Yeah, dual front cameras are complete mess. A propos the sound on X2, maybe “terrible” is a strong word, i think it sounds basically the same as mi9t. But still it’s not a dual speaker and what is weird to me is the speaker positioning on the left side, so you basically cover it every time when hold phone horizontally. I have Honor 20 pro and Redmi note 8 pro and speaker is on the right and that’s how it should be imo. By the way, round hole on Honor 20 Pro on the left side of the screen looks just perfect without any artefacts or loosing much useful screen space, it’s basically become unnoticeable and the face unlock works very good too. Not a bad phone in general, especially in camera department, I bought it instead of mi9t after a few days of use exactly because of the amoled intolerance, but turns out magic OS is just not for me.) So just waiting for a decent android phone with a good IPS panel.

I’d like to point out that amoled tech typically has less ghosting and faster pixel response than any IPS tech.

Speak for yourself, I have a 240hz monitor for gaming and I can confirm there are no difference when you’re doing everyday task on a phone using 120hz screen.

Only for scrolling and gaming you can see the effect, which I don’t really care for.

I am, for more than 6 months already. That’s why I can say it with confidence.

Only gaming and scrolling(lol) is affected. Go for 90/120hz if you’re into gaming but other than that, I can’t recommend higher than 60hz refresh rate until the technology becomes standard.