July 11th, 2008
Some iPhone 3G Screens Appear Jaundiced
By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
I must admit I was surprised at the venom in aimed at Apple in comments to my last post. Well, here’s more grist for the mill.
Does anyone remember the issues with the first-generation iPhone screens, where some of them, with a different LCD Panel ID number, were noticeably dimmer? Seems like we have a repeat here.
I can’t get an iPhone 3G because I’m not eligible for a phone upgrade (sob). However, my friend can, and did. He told me he wasn’t happy with his screen; he thought it looked yellow. A little searching, and it seems he’s not the only one.
Forum posts indicate that some users are seeing yellow-tinted screens. What you see above is an iPhone 3G on the left, and a 2G on the right.
Apple’s support forum also has posts regarding this issue.
The simple (though perhaps, jumping to conclusions-type) of answer would be, hey, iSuppli has already determined that the iPhone 3G is cheaper for Apple to build despite 3G = cheaper LCD, maybe?
Once again, it’s a simplistic rush to judgment; we’ll see what the answer really is.
Ah, perhaps not being able to buy an iPhone 3G yet isn’t so bad; this will all shake out before I get mine, I hope.
Some People Will buy Anything! says:
Whooooshhh!!!! Did you hear that?!?!?!? That was the sound of Apple sucking the money out of you Mindless Sheep’s wallets!!!!
How much did you just pay for this iBrick???? And it has a cheaper LCD screen, that produces an inferior image… my, my, what a surprise!
And from Apple, no less, our Savior!!!!
Baaa, Baaaa you Mindless Sheep!!!!
July 11th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
LZW says:
I had a phone once but people kept calling I didn’t want to talk to, so I got rid of it.
Not the first time apple has been in trouble for bad screens… Some of their computers were advertised as being capable of millions of colors so they got a class action law suite when customers discovered they could only make thousands of colors!
I think a long time ago apple was like the undisputed king of graphics. They even had an addon board called a Toaster that gave them video capture. Those days are long gone because video capture can be done fairly cheaply these days and windows makes millions of colors easy!
July 12th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Elliott C. Back says:
iPhone 3G Yellow Discolored Screen Problem…
We’ve written previously about the easily broken iPhone screens, and it seems like the iPhone 3G will be no exception to the display problems. According to Bob Borchers, the senior director of product marketing for the iPhone, the “yellow …
July 12th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
You Deserve What You're Getting!!! says:
The yellow tint on the LCD screen is from the pre-applied KY Jelly…. Oh wait, I forgot, Apple doesn’t even give you any of that, they just insert it & rotate hard, pulling the contents of your wallet out as they retreat!!!!
July 13th, 2008 at 8:47 am