Apple used LCDs on every iPhone until last year, when it finally moved to OLED for the iPhone X. Apple reportedly intends to use more OLED panels for this year's iPhone refresh, but sources indicate the company's plans to source some of those panels from LG is falling flat. …
… There are better ways to add detail and increase image quality. There are other, better ways to improve visual quality. Higher-quality color reproduction. …
… The panel is apparently high quality and very bright considering the price of the machine, though. This was a necessary compromise to get the price down, but the smaller panel should make the pixel density of that resolution somewhat more tolerable. …
… Both the Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 have an aluminum band around the edge and a glass panel on the back. The Galaxy S6 is flat on the back, which is fine considering its size. The Note 5's rear panel is curved a bit at the edges to make the larger phone easier to hold. …
… Both AMD and Nvidia have turned to other methods of improving image quality. Nvidia has focused on ray tracing as a method of improving game image quality since late 2018, while AMD has talked up HDR tone-mapping improvements as a key FreeSync capability. …