@UniverseIce Typical Samsung. Their policy on new & old phones revolves around boosting your experience through software updates and then downgrading your experience through other software updates. Until a few years down d road, not even close to 7 years of updates you get to d greenish line.
Do you know that the average single man can go months or even years without non-sexual physical touch. No hugs. No hand-holding. No comforting pat on the back?
The only time many men experience gentle touch is from a barber or a paid sex worker.
This condition is called 'Skin Hunger,' and it leads to severe depression and anxiety. Society has labeled male touch as 'predatory' or 'creepy,' so men have learned to starve themselves of human contact just to make women feel comfortable. They are dying of loneliness in a crowded room.
Well, Samsung's new display everyone is posting on X lately is a piece of magic engineering! Samsung Display wasn't just showing off a "pretty screen" at MWC, they were debuting LEAD 2.0, which is essentially the blueprint for the Galaxy S27 series. While the S26 uses FRC to fake 10-bit, the LEAD 2.0 panel moves the baseline. It is native 10-bit, and then uses 2-bit dithering to hit 12-bit (68 billion colors). You can't hit 5,000 nits (the LEAD 2.0 peak) on an 8-bit + temporal dithering base without horrific "contouring" (banding). To make a 5,000-nit sunset look smooth, you need those native 10-bit gradations. The S26 Ultra uses a single stack OLED. The LEAD 2.0 panel uses a five-layer (Penta) tandem structure. By stacking five light-emitting layers, Samsung can hit that massive 5,000-nit brightness at a much lower voltage per layer. This solves the "8-bit + FRC" heat issue, ande also the native 10-bit that usually draws more power, but the tandem stack offsets that by being 30% more efficient. On the LEAD 2.0 the demo units were using a "Pol-less" (no external polarizer) design that allows the active privacy pixels to go right to the very edge of the glass, something the S26 still struggles with due to its thicker bezel-bonding.
Can't wait to see if they will actually use LEAD 2.0 on S27! π
@sondesix Yeap!
I know it is just placebo or whatever because sensors & processing has evolved but I used to love taking pictures on Samsung phones starting with S10+ until S23 Ultra without questioning it. Now, idk..