What do the
different qualities?
Modules
INCELL HD
INCELL FHD
HARD OLED
SOFT OLED
ORIGINAL
OLED
Called by its English acronym Organic Light-Emitting Diode, which translated into Spanish is "Organic Light-Emitting Diode." This technology is the highest on the market today. It is for this reason that they are the best and the most expensive. Most of the original modules are OLED, depending on the brand and model of the cell phone.
These OLED modules have a light-emitting diode for each pixel, this means that each pixel is illuminated separately, which makes this type of screen have great brightness and contrast.
SOFT OLED:
ORIt has a plastic substrate that makes it flexible and can withstand greater bending, which avoids the risk of breakage during installation and also withstands more blows, but it is prone to burns due to its plastic substrate manufacturing.
HARD OLED:
In contrast to the previous one, it uses an sglass substrate, which makes it more fragile to handling during installation and falls. It is usually cheaper than SOFT OLED.
What products can I buy?
It is a different technology than OLED. They look good, work perfectly, and are cheaper than OLEDs. INCELL means that the touch panel and LCD layer are integrated into one piece.
INCELL LCD manufacturing process is the top technology in the field of LCD screens. It has many advantages such as: a lighter, thinner and more colorful screen, a long lifespan and no eye damage.
An INCELL LCD type screen requires a backlight separate from the screen panel to illuminate, so in short it has less brightness, contrast and uses more battery than the Original. The INCELL screen size is smaller than the original and the screen does not have a fingerprint sensor.
INCELL FHD
INCELL Full HD technology, or true or total high definition, indicates that the resolution that a screen is capable of offering is 1920 x 1080 pixels. Full HD resolution is also known as 1080p, since it has 1080 horizontal lines.
INCELL HD
INCELL High definition technology. It is one of the most well-known types of screen resolution and contains 1280 by 720 pixels
In the case of Full HD, the screens have 1920 horizontal pixels and 1080 vertical pixels. On the other hand, screens with HD resolution have 1280 horizontal pixels and 720 vertical pixels..
ORIGINAL
In this case, components such as fittings, dimensions, screen technology, touch, glass, and flex, as well as design, are similar to the originals and produced by third-party factories.
Regarding colors, image speed, weight, brightness, and battery consumption, they are similar to the original.
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Some other comparisons
COLOR
SOFT OLED
The colors are a little more opaque or weaker especially when looking from different angles. In this case, the warmth of the colors is quite accentuated and they are very similar to the original, but a demanding user could notice it relatively easily.
HARD OLED
The colors are more intense than in the original and the color expression of this screen is quite good but it can be seen that they are more saturated. In terms of colors, it is practically the opposite of SOFT OLED as it has colder colors.
INCELL
As for the colors, they are much weaker and much colder, in fact the whites sometimes appear blue as they are from LSD Technology, the blacks are very close to gray. Of course, the pixels do not turn off like in other cases, so they have many disadvantages in terms of contrast
TOUCH SPEED
The original iPhone screen, except the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 proMax, has a 60 Hz refresh rate, this is the speed with which the content on a screen is updated. On the other hand, from the iPhone
It is important to be clear about this, because one thing is what the phone shows, which is the content at 60 Hz, and another thing is what the phone receives, which is the location of our finger at 120 Hz.
SOFT OLED
It is almost imperceptibly slower than the original.
HARD OLED
It's a little late.
INCELL
As in the case of SOFT OLED, it has a delay almost indistinguishable from the original screen.
GLOW
The original brightness of the iPhone X is 634 NITS. Technically, an NIT is equivalent to one candela per square meter and measures the luminous intensity of an object. In practice, if there are more Nits, there is more brightness intensity.
SOFT OLED
In this aspect it turns out to be quite similar to the original, in addition, it is superior to OLED HARD and its brightness is more uniform, regardless of the angle from which you look at it.
HARD OLED
Strictly from the front, perhaps its difference from the original might not be noticeable, but when you look at it from the sides, you can perceive quite a bit of opacity compared to it, and even compared to the SOFT OLED.
INCELL
The backlight panel does a very good job on brightness, almost matching the original, but as long as you are facing it and indoors. If this is not the case, you may not be able to see your content perfectly.
WEIGHT
Let's use an iPhone X as an example. The weight of the iPhone Without Face ID included OLED SOFT, weighs 40 g, OLED HARD 45.4 g, INCELL 44.6 g.
Why is weight important?
The original screen weighs 40 g, so the screen represents 23% of the total weight of the phone. Surely when changing the screen, for a renovation, for example, we will notice the change. However, since we know our phone so much, we may not notice the 5.5 g (11% more) difference between HARD OLED AND ORIGINAL. Of course, this is something minimal and in a matter of minutes, our hand will get used to it, but we comply with telling you.
The thickness of the original screen is 1.8 mm, OLED SOFT is also 1.8 mm, OLED HARD is 2 mm, the INCELL is 2.4 mm and the REFURBISHED is 1.9 mm. No, we will not notice the 0.2 mm difference, however with the naked eye, we can notice the other 0.6 that the INCELL has. Again, it's surely a reason for minimal complaints, but if it's not a slightly bulkier phone after a screen repair, you know why it was.
TEMPERATURE
The original screen temperature may vary from 34°C at first to 40°C after 30 minutes without power off. All measurements were made indoors and with an ambient temperature of approximately 27 °C.
SOFT OLED: 36°C - 42°C
HARD OLED: 35°C - 41°C
INCELL: 41°C - 44°C
Should we care about the temperature of a phone screen?
Of course, it is true that the impact will never be direct, but in the long run it is very likely that a higher temperature will cause some components, such as the battery, to have a shorter lifespan. This is especially important if you want to keep your phone in the best condition for as long as possible.
CONSUMPTION
The consumption of each screen has a direct impact on the battery. In fact, the screen is by far the component that consumes the most battery in a device. With the screen and brightness at maximum, the phone consumes 300 mA, without using the touch. 500 mA by touching the touch and 550 mA by performing a small action on the main screen.
How much difference is there with the others?
Let's summarize, the consumption of all the screens with the brightness at maximum performing a small action on it, which is the case that is probably most repeated in our daily lives.
SOFT OLED: 650 mA
HARD OLED: 700 mA
INCELL: 800 mA