Samsung Galaxy S8 display has a reddish tint

reddish tint

The Galaxy S8 will be available to the public this week, some users who have already received their units and discovered the first major issue of the phone, a problem that affects the most important feature of Samsung’s new flagship handset.

According to a report from The Korea Herald, the Galaxy S8’s display has a reddish tint. The Infinity display of the Galaxy S8 is one of its best features, one that’s currently unavailable on other devices. Sure, the LG G6 also has a high-resolution edge-to-edge display, but Samsung went for a curved OLED display rather than a flat LCD screen. 

The Galaxy S8’s screen is currently graded as the best screen out there by some experts, and the iPhone 8 is expected to also feature an OLED screen made by Samsung.

The Herald explains that the reddish tint issue might be caused by the color balance of the screen. However, customers who already received the handset say the reddish screen did not improve after correcting the color display settings.

“The reddish tint may be caused by a color balance problem after Samsung used deep red AMOLED to strengthen the red,” an unnamed industry watcher said.

Samsung developed deep red OLEDs to prevent any color issues with the phone. The report says the OLED panel in the Galaxy S8 uses two subpixels, including red-green and blue-green.

“It is not a quality problem, and it can be adjusted with the phone itself. If the color still appears to be reddish, customers can change it at the service center,” Samsung said.

The Galaxy S8 isn’t widely available for the time being, but plenty of people already received test units ahead of the phone’s launch. A bunch of YouTubers have gone ahead and put the phone through a variety of tests, but they have not signaled out this particular issue with the phone.

It’s unclear at this time how widespread the red tint issue is, and whether it can be corrected via software. That said, it’s not unexpected to see some issues with new phones, and it’s likely Samsung will fix any problems. After all, the last thing Samsung wants is having to deal with any quality issues with the handset.

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New S8

Galaxy S8 and S are upon us. The phone comes in a 5.8 inch and 6.2-inch varieties with the edge screens and snapdragon 835 chips. 

6.2 and 5.8 inch

Those sizes sounds quite huge and scary but they are using a new screen resolution that has an aspect ratio of 18.5/9, almost 2 to 1 with almost no buzzes at all, so if you are holding the 6.2 inch and it's even easier to hold in your hand than even the google pixel or something like that.

Iris Scan

 They have the same edge display as the galaxy s7 edge, wireless charging like the galaxy s7 edge,  CMPMA supported , iris scanner like the ill-fated Galaxy note 7 that is no longer with us, face unlocking, it has the same camera with S7 and S7 edge but a new enhanced software so you are supposed to get a better pictures from it.

Gear VR

It has a new Gear VR that has a Gear VR motion controller.

This also comes with an HDMI like USB port, when you put it in there then connect it to with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse then you can use it a  desktop computer with real re-sizable window and all that.

Desktop connection

It has a smart home hub that helps you connect to all your smart home Samsung appliances and all your Samsung smart things so that you can see all of them and control them from your phone. It has also fingerprint scanner, IP 68 water, and dust resistant.

Smart Hub App

Here comes the big one, Samsung’s new AI intelligent interface companion, when you activate AI you are supposed to everything you can do by touching or tapping just by talking to it, every feature that you do in your gallery app. 

At launch, this AI feature will be limited but more is surely coming later. S8 has got the first 10-nanometer processor. I bet it’s going to be expensive because it does everything.

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