A friend of mine just got his IPhone 4 and the first thing he mentioned was how great the screen looked. After I showed him my DInc screen at 75% brightness, the big smile dissappeared from his face. Also the DInc's BIGGER screen looked far more impressive. Made the IPhone look tiny by comparison.
I have a Incredible and an iPhone 4 with me now. I will post pictures in a few hours. The difference is NIGHT and DAY depending on what camp you belong to. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.
This is what I see ( I see the same thing Engadget is seeing when they compare the Galaxy S which has
Super-Amoled).
In fact the red fringing you see on the iPhone is a lens anomaly on their cheap camera. I'll shoot with a $900 lens that doesn't have chromatic abberations. You won't see little or no red fringing on my photos.
and
Next, Either HTC/Google has a crappy Youtube player or the "verizon/htc" stated
16-bit color depth shows some serious artificating in video and images., but the iPhone 4 blows away the Incredible playing HD trailers like tron in youtube. (Yes, I put the Incredible on High). I also downloaded the original files but they won't play on the INC but they will play on the iPhone. iPhone will play high bitrate 720p H.264 mp4 files with no problems whatsoever. So, the high-end video playback comparison is only limited to youtube.
The HTC does have the deeper saturation, reds and colors. But they appear too warm/hot. The 3.7 screen advantage is
NILL because the text is so sharp on the iPhone it doesn't matter. Going to nytimes.com on both, the iPhone appears to be like paper. Text that appears to be 6 points is readable.
I'll take pictures and I'll film it; showing that I set the brightness up on the Incredible at 100%; showing I set youtube to wifi and HD playback. If someone wants to host the raw source files, I will provide them too so there is no doubt any comparison is rigged.
Then I'll let you guys decide. The pictures Engadget are 100% accurate: This is exactly what I see:
Now, browser comparisons will be hard because of the different font-rendering on both browsers. iPhone you can't change. Incredible, if you set the text to small, it is too small. If you set to medium or large, it is too large. So, there is no real direct font-size browser comparison possible. Incredible will either re-wrap the text. Dolphin and Skyfire will do the same. Hence, the reason people judge the picture above as questionable. Also in that NYTime example they posted, the iPhone has a full font set - Serif, San-Serif, Times Roman,etc. HTC will substitute the font and that is why some of the text wraps. Safari's browser supports more fonts.
