I've just realised.. OLED on a tablet is just terrible.

[e22big]

So just to share a bit of my experience with an OLED on a tablet. I get my selt Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 just a few week ago, it has an OLED screen which is a huge selling point to me. But just right after I get my own hands with one, I've just realised how underwhelming they are. 

 

Just like their QD-OLED, Samsung tablet OLED lacks the polariser layer which mean just like their TV, black will look very grey in anything but a black out condition. Unlike their TV and monitor, you don't tend to use a tablet in a light control environment (that's kind of the reason you use a tablet), and worse, you also don't tend to view it straight on and the grey look so much worse when the screen sit flat on your lap and taking all the lighting in the world.

 

Using this OLED during my commute feel like I am using an IPS with the worst backlight bleed possible because not only there's no black anywhere, the black bars also look uneven grey where some area looking darker than others. And it's not just the black bar, a lot of irl object like hair or eyes also look notieably grey. It's way, waaaaay worse than their smartphone. Actually, I think their great IPS from last year might even better than this shitty OLED. It even has black smearing in real life usage, the only real advantage is HDR which is still not super common.

 

I just don't get why Samsung find it's acceptable to ship an OLED without a polarised layer even on a big mobile devide like this where it seriously impacted the user experience. My bet is it because all of the rushed Youtube review who never test the display image properly and just call it best thing since slice bread.

 

So yeah, rant over. I wish I know better before getting myself into this. I mean I'll probably get it anyway but at least I'll go at it with a more realistic expectation.

[Andrewtst]

For the entire series of Tab S9, the normal one doesn’t look good in my opinion when I check at store.

 

Even the smaller version look better and the Ultra version look fantastic but too big, at the end I give up and not buying anything.

[e22big]

3 hours ago, Andrewtst said:

For the entire series of Tab S9, the normal one doesn’t look good in my opinion when I check at store.

 

Even the smaller version look better and the Ultra version look fantastic but too big, at the end I give up and not buying anything.

Eh I am pretty sure they all use the same screen. And yeah, Ultra is just too big, I would rather get a laptop for something that size (which also has OLED and much, much more powerful)

[Andrewtst]

2 hours ago, e22big said:

Eh I am pretty sure they all use the same screen. And yeah, Ultra is just too big, I would rather get a laptop for something that size (which also has OLED and much, much more powerful)

I don' think they use same display, it is very obvious different quality when you compare side by side. I check few shop also same.

I ask one of the Samsung store and the sales person told me they are different.

 

I cannot find any information it is different but when you go to store compare and you will notice it is obvious different.