If Nexus One reviewers could agree on one thing, it was that the phone has a stunning screen. But for those inky blacks and vivid colors, you’re apparently paying a hefty price: I mean, look at that. DisplayMate ran a battery of comparative tests on the Nexus One’s AMOLED screen, and came away with a damning list of issues: • The Nexus One only uses 16 bit color, which means that “Red and Blue only have 32 possible intensity levels and Green only has 64 possible intensity levels,” as compared to the iPhone and others, which have at least 256 intensity levels for each color. Result : That horrible banding you see above. • Android’s sub-pixel rendering is great for icons and text, but terrible for images. Photos are “rendered poorly and inaccurately, with over-saturated colors, bad color and gray-scale accuracy, large color and gray-scale tracking errors, calibration errors, lots of image noise from excessive edge and sharpness processing, and many artifacts.” Result : Blown-out areas in photographs, image noise, and general gaudiness in colorful images.

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The Nexus One’s Dirty Display Secret [Google]