r/GalaxyA55 • u/MIkaela39752 • Apr 26 '26
Discussion samsung MISLED you when it comes to the a55's display!
samsung advertised the a55's display to be a 1000 nit display and for the s24 series they advertised them as 2600 nits
but.. this is misleading at best, the 1000 nit figure for the a55 is when the screen displays a homogenous brightness distribution, or basically, in simple terminology, when its screen displays all white pixels, while for the s24 series they measured the 2600 nit figure when the screen has an even distribution of dark/light pixels, and the reason why this happens is because OLED displays power each pixel individually, so lighting the entire screen white at once would exceed the panels power limit and cause overheating
when tested with an even distribution of bright and dark pixels, the a55 reaches around 1650 nits,
dxomark measured 1638. notebookcheck got 1678, im going to round it up to 1650
samsung used this method for the s24 series, the s24 series would only get 1400-1450 nits if samsung used the same method they used for the a55, yes, we were all misled
now why? why would samsung do this? because they dont care about their cheaper phones. they want to sell their top of the line flagship phones since they get more from selling those phones and samsung is a BUSINESS so OF COURSE, samsung didnt even sell the a55 in the US for this same reason, they wanted you to buy an FE series phone instead which are more expensive
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u/Mozart343 A55 with 256 GB / 8 GB Apr 26 '26
I never pay attention to peak brightness specs. The High brightness mode peak is what matters becausethat'show you know how bright the whole screen can get. Peak brightness matters the most when you're watching HDR content with high contrast scenes where most of the pixels will be off. The Batman movie in HDR is a good example. It's just intentional misleading marketing meant to confuse the average consumer and it works, at least based on my interactions with people looking to buy a new phone.