LEDs in phones - is it good for gaming and is it worth?

[hiimpeci]

Hey guys!
Recently found this article and started wondering if it's actually worth buying a phone with a led display.
My current phone is Samsung Galaxy A70. It has a huge screen, it's perfect for anything except gaming.
I've struggled a lot, but almost every game is unplayable because of lag and overheating. Probably because the screen consuming too much energy.
I tried everything, i tried rooting it to fix it, but i couldnt do it.
I guess the phone is protected from rooting or something.
I gave up on gaming on my phone because of this, however League of Legends wild rift is comming soon and i'd like to play it.
Does anyone have a phone with LED display and what is the expirience like?
Can u share your thoughs?

Thanks.
Regards : )

[dizmo]

Haha, I don't get that article at all. Don't believe it, it looks like someones school project. The phones in the image are all around 6 - 8 years old.

Go OLED. IPS is for low budget phones.

Want a better phone for gaming? Get something with a newer, higher end SoC.

 

Welcome to the forum.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Basically all phones have led backlights. I don't think there were ever ccfl backlight phones, or atleast ones that would run modern games.

 

I don't think the issue is the backlight, I think its just a lowerend and slower phone, and its not made for sustained heavy use. \

 

You can dim the screen to save power, does it still have issues at min brightness? 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

18 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Basically all phones have led backlights. I don't think there were ever ccfl backlight phones, or atleast ones that would run modern games.

 

I don't think the issue is the backlight, I think its just a lowerend and slower phone, and its not made for sustained heavy use. \

 

You can dim the screen to save power, does it still have issues at min brightness? 

Wouldn't ccfl backlights make the phones complete chonkers? From my understanding that's how we've slimmed LCD TVs from being like 3 inches thick to mere centimeters. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Wouldn't ccfl backlights make the phones complete chonkers? From my understanding that's how we've slimmed LCD TVs from being like 3 inches thick to mere centimeters. 

Yea pretty thck, but there are some pretty thin ccfl displays, like the ones on laptops like the ibooks and tibook g4. I think it was under 1/4 inch thick

[mariushm]

OLED displays don't (or shouldn't) have backlight, the organic material generates its own light. 

LED backlight LCDs (tn/va/ips) have led backlight .. i doubt you'll find today phones with old cffl backlight, as the space required by the inverter is precious and doesn't justify whatever price extra the led backlight would have. 

 

Doubt you couldn't play due to power consumption of backlight, which should be below 1w ... the battery can supply 10-100x that much. 

The Samsung phone probably just has shitty processor / gpu chip, or the panel used has high latency.

 

[WereCatf]

On 11/3/2020 at 4:11 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea pretty thck, but there are some pretty thin ccfl displays, like the ones on laptops like the ibooks and tibook g4. I think it was under 1/4 inch thick

It's not the CCFL-panel that's thick, it's the transformer that generates the high voltage required for the backlight that's thick. In a laptop, the transformer can reside in the section with the keyboard and such, it doesn't necessarily have to be inside the display-assembly.