LG V30 review (display)
The LG V30 is equipped with a P-OLED display, and LG made it clear that it's an 'active matrix' like Samsung's, but the 'AM' bit is just not part of LG's trademarks. The 'P', on the other hand, stands for plastic - the base layer on which the display is built is not glass but plastic.
While we haven't recently been to a Samsung display manufacturing plant, the company's curved AMOLED should be plastic underneath as well. Also, LG used P-OLED displays back in G Flex and G Flex 2 days, when Samsung's curved AMOLEDs weren't yet all the rage.
Anyway, the LG V30's FullVision display is in a 2:1 aspect ratio, as probably most high-end phones, will be from this year on. Resolution is 1,440x2,880 pixels and that amounts to 537ppi, and that's plenty.
When it comes to brightness, the V30 managed a little over 400nits with the auto brightness turned off. In auto mode, however, it's able to push 600+ nits, up there with the Galaxy S8. The S8+ can shine a little brighter, though.
Unlike Samsung's AMOLED, the V30's screen does show some illumination in the blacks - not enough for you to see, but there for our testing equipment to spot. For purposes practical, however, you can assume that contrast is infinite, or at least vastly superior to the best of LCDs.
Minimum brightness is 3.3nits, not the nominal 1nit we've seen on occasion, but still perfectly adequate for nighttime viewing.
Out in the sun the V30 posts high marks for contrast, out of reach for most LCDs, yet falling short of Samsung's finest.
As is all too common, in the default 'Normal' mode whites are visibly shifted towards blue/purple. Average DeltaE in this mode is 6.2 with a maximum of 11.1 for 100% Red. In the other pre-set modes, whites are much better controlled (DeltaE 2-3) and average DeltaE is around 4, with only a marginal decrease in maximum brightness. There's also a fully customizable mode with sliders for color temperature and for the three primary colors so you can tweak the display to your particular taste.
It needs to be said that the V30's color rendition degrades quite noticeably when viewed at an angle - it gets even bluer. We haven't observed this with recent Samsungs.
While we haven't recently been to a Samsung display manufacturing plant, the company's curved AMOLED should be plastic underneath as well. Also, LG used P-OLED displays back in G Flex and G Flex 2 days, when Samsung's curved AMOLEDs weren't yet all the rage.
Anyway, the LG V30's FullVision display is in a 2:1 aspect ratio, as probably most high-end phones, will be from this year on. Resolution is 1,440x2,880 pixels and that amounts to 537ppi, and that's plenty.
When it comes to brightness, the V30 managed a little over 400nits with the auto brightness turned off. In auto mode, however, it's able to push 600+ nits, up there with the Galaxy S8. The S8+ can shine a little brighter, though.
Unlike Samsung's AMOLED, the V30's screen does show some illumination in the blacks - not enough for you to see, but there for our testing equipment to spot. For purposes practical, however, you can assume that contrast is infinite, or at least vastly superior to the best of LCDs.
Minimum brightness is 3.3nits, not the nominal 1nit we've seen on occasion, but still perfectly adequate for nighttime viewing.
Out in the sun the V30 posts high marks for contrast, out of reach for most LCDs, yet falling short of Samsung's finest.
As is all too common, in the default 'Normal' mode whites are visibly shifted towards blue/purple. Average DeltaE in this mode is 6.2 with a maximum of 11.1 for 100% Red. In the other pre-set modes, whites are much better controlled (DeltaE 2-3) and average DeltaE is around 4, with only a marginal decrease in maximum brightness. There's also a fully customizable mode with sliders for color temperature and for the three primary colors so you can tweak the display to your particular taste.
It needs to be said that the V30's color rendition degrades quite noticeably when viewed at an angle - it gets even bluer. We haven't observed this with recent Samsungs.
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