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Evaluating Samsung's QHD AMOLED Displaysby Joshua Ho on 7/16/2014 6:00 AM EST
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Hairs_ - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - link1)Battery life, battery life, battery life, battery life and Battery Life.
2) Size.
3) Outdoor visibility.
4) Battery life.
These are what consumers care about for screens.
Even if people cared about display calibration, hardly anyone is going to invest in the expensive hardware and software necessary to actually correct it. Reply
althaz - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkPeople also care about resolution and contrast.
There's been hundreds of studies showing that contrast is the most important thing for the subjective quality of a screen, followed by resolution (up to a point).
For the vast majority of people (although not me, I like colours to be as accurate as possible), as long as the colours are ok, then that's all they want. Reply
WaltFrench - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkYes, "people care" but aside from not wanting to be one-upped by the guy with a higher-spec phone, maybe you could explain why.
Once you get to a certain level of contrast, an increase can only be appreciated where there are no screen reflections and the ambient light level is nearly non-existent. This is a use case that applies to watching a video in bed — and most of the videos that people play on phones are hardly art-house investigations into Van Gogh's use of the color palette. Yes, more is always better, but after a point, it's all perfectly good enough.
Ditto for resolution. I can't even focus on an object close enough to my eyes (about 3"/7cm) that my 20/20 vision should be able to distinguish individual 2K-rez pixels. If the phone is driving a HD screen, I am not sitting with the screen up close enough, either.
In isolation, a little overkill is fine, good engineering. But why people should pay anything extra, suffer higher battery drain, or need games to bloat artwork, or tax programmers to refresh all those pixels at decent framerates, is beyond me. Can you help? Reply
althaz - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThere is obviously a limit to what is beneficial. We are there or just about there (or past it to lots of people, personally I feel like anything past 1080p is not worth it for a 5" screen) for resolution, however, we are several orders of magnitude away from that level of contrast (large increases in resolution aren't immediately noticeable, increases in contrast still very much are).
However, even with contrast although people will straight away be able to see the benefits, most high-end phones are "good enough". That is, although it's quite noticeable that something else is better - it's only noticeable when two displays are compared, which doesn't happen in your normal use of a phone. Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkDistinguishing pixels is not the best criterion to declare a resolution as high enough. Sampling, even with a physically perfect system, will reduce the contrast of an image modulated at Nyquist frequency to about 64%. Ideally you get a screen where there is no noticeable reduction in the Modulation Transfer Function of all frequencies which the human visual system can resolve. For that, you will need a pixel that is significantly smaller than the finest detail you can resolve.
Assuming the naked eye is at best able to resolve 1 arcminute, even a 0.25 arcminute screen has some impact on the contrast of resolvable details, and therefore a higher resolution screen could still improve the perceived image quality further:
http://snag.gy/1vpYH.jpg Reply
inighthawki - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkPeople may think they want higher resolution, because it's what they've been told to look for. But I urge you to find an average user who not only *actually* wants, but can tell the difference between an FHD and QHD display on a 5" display, without staring super close at the pixels with their eyes 1" away. Reply
TedKord - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkFrom the article :
"... It's still possible to see the difference... "
Maybe you should ask the author. Reply
andy o - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkI wonder how much the Pentile matrix has to do with that. Pentile basically cuts pure blue and pure red resolution in half. Reply
Spunjji - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThe point is that if the display arrives well-calibrated then they don't have to make any additional investments... Also, at what point did Anandtech cater to ordinary consumers? Reply
craighamilton - Saturday, December 06, 2014 - linkThis only show why it is one of the top rated phones in terms of consumer satisfaction (seen at a consumer based website, such as http://www.topreport.org/phones/ for example...) Reply
jwh635 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkI thought OLEDs consumed less power than LCDs? Reply
frostyfiredude - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkDisplaying dark colours they do, bright ones have AMOLEDs using more power with current technologies. Reply
xmen77 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkIn some tests it walked around even kings of calibration (Apple)
And this despite the fact that the iPhone is no ideal black, no ideal contrast, no ideal response time, no ideal viewing angle, because LCD display (IPS) Reply
akdj - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkiPhone, 'no ideal black?' You said it yourself. It's LED/IPS. not AMOLED. When 'black' is the absence of light, AMOLED rules the roost. It's pixels are 'off'. LCD and LED/IPS doesn't have the luxury, nor do any other non AMOLED panels. That said, it doesn't suck. Apple's 'calibration' out of the box is and had been second to none. As a user of both a 5s and Note 3 I appreciate the differences, as well, how far Samsung has come in just a year with the technology. The Note 3 was the AMOLED display I finally found 'decent'. Still saturation challenges. Still gray scale, colors...and their ability to be semi controlled by Adapt screen's setting, it's the closest to an 'iPhone' as I've seem when it came down to ALL visual factors taken in combination. Apple's displays, that continue to stack up well to today's flagship Android devices are now a year old from their original production (5c/5s) and the Air, also a year old sits atop the best two or three. When it comes to viewing angle, it's hard to get better than iOS. iPad. iPhone. Latest generation iPods and MacBook retina displays. They're right at about 178°. That two degrees can get annoying but you're not going to get it with AMOLED. When you're talking response time, as an owner of the original Xoom, a half dozen Android phones, three other tablets and each iPhone and iPad I can honestly say, you're a bit 'off' when it comes to fact. Again, I own and enjoy them both. Love me for differ t things and flagship to flagship, iOS generation in, generation out, has ALWAYS been more responsive, faster and 'immediate' than ANY Android build. I'll admit, my Note3 is the fastest yet but I've got a half dozen 'cross platform' and different apps that show 'response time' and the real truth. Whether playing Asphalt 8 or Temple Run. Opening and accessing Dropbox or ANY browser on Android, from stock to Chrome, Dolphin to Opera, Mercury...I've got plenty. iOS trumps them all. And in spades. From launch to population of the screen, the iPhone 5s with ½ the cores @ 40% less clock speed and ⅓ the RAM absolutely SMOKES any of my Android devices I own and have used. It's sad, but it's the truth. GPS and location related applications (I'm a pilot and use ProPilot and ForeFlight as well as a half dozen others with up to date Jep charts, plates, weather and traffic conditions, even TCAS and 'moving map' ADS-B 'Next Gen' technology. Instantaneous lock. Amazing accuracy and phenomenal terrain, traffic and weather 'radar' on a retina iPad mini. That has replaced a 50lb flight bag (still in the plane JIC). And I fly in and all over the state of Alaska with amazing sunshine, around the clock these days...and my 'contrast' challenges, even on the mini are non existent. I'm not a fan of watching movies on my phone though and in that situation, I can see the appeal;) Reply
mkozakewich - Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - linkAll generalizations are wrong.
I'm the type of person who noticed how dull the colours were on the iPad mini. (I think it was last year's?) It was still better than basically all other displays except that year's iPad and iPhone, but I'd had the opportunity to see the iPhone's screen before, and I did notice in casual viewing.
You can say that people don't care about this or that, and it's true that most won't really know why they don't enjoy a system that much, but when they see something better they can usually recognize it.
Back in the 90s, my mom had the good sense to get a very good monitor with her cheaper computer, because she knew the performance differences would be minor, but you'll be intimately familiar with what you see every day. Reply
victorson - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThere's a typo in the title - should be Samsung, not Samsung. Otherwise, great read, glad to see the improvements in AMOLED. Still appears to be a bit greenish looking at the charts, no? Reply
morganf - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThere's a typo in your comment. Should be "not Samung" not "not Samsung". Reply
JoshHo - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkOops. That was a pretty terrible typo, thanks for the catch.
It definitely is a little bit on the green side at times. While this tends to be acceptable to a certain extent near 100% white, it's quite obvious when closer to 50% white. It's definitely a lot better than the Galaxy S5, which had some shades of gray more green than gray... Reply
victorson - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThanks for clarifying this, Josh, great to see Samsung improving this - it seems like that's the final step before truly great AMOLED screens. Morganf, yeah, saw the typo in my comment, but there's no edit option, and I didn't want to post again just for this. Reply
gonchuki - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThe display will always have a green tint as long as they continue to cheat with PenTile matrix screens. The higher pixel density will definitely help due to being able to better hide the color errors via dithering, but there will always be a balance towards green until they use proper RGB screens again (instead of the PenTile RGBG). Reply
saru44 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - link'That' is a solid improvement ! Have to give due credit to sammy here for the screen.. Reply
saru44 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThough I really wish they (and every other manufacturer out there for that matter) stick with FHD for the mobiles.. Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkWhy, in the name of all that matters to anyone, are so many commenters on tech enthusiast sites bemoaning the arrival of displays like this?!?!? It's the best quality display, by every metric except for potentially power draw (and the jury is still out on that one) to ever grace an Android phone. It's insanely close to the holy grail of 4.9", 2560 x 1440 (easily pocketable, 600 ppi), and the only thing it might have sacrificed to get there is a little bit of the power budget. This is the direction ALL OEMs should go, so that in a couple generations they'll become even thinner, brighter and draw less power. Furthermore, accurate color is something that should be applauded whenever we encounter it, not simply dismissed with a hand wave.
I'm not sure if it's just people being uncomfortable with specs advancing this rapidly, but why is everyone trying to put the brakes on when we're so close to the end goal here? I've been waiting for literally 20 years for LCDs to get to this point! Being able to reproduce type on an LCD with no visible aliasing or blurriness from font "smoothing" is absolutely where we want to get to. Is everyone posting these comments too young to remember the laser printer (and, shortly thereafter, inkjet) revolutions? Do you not remember how awful printed documents looked before we got to resolutions of at least 600 dpi? Reply
victorson - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkAnd could you please kindly elaborate on why suddnely 4.9" Quad HD with ~600ppi is the holy grail? Reply
WithoutWeakness - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkHe said the reason right in the middle of the second paragraph.
"Being able to reproduce type on an LCD with no visible aliasing or blurriness from font "smoothing" is absolutely where we want to get to."
4.9" QHD isn't necessarily a "holy grail" but 600dpi is around the range where pixels are so small and close together that pixels cannot be distinguished from each other when viewed from a normal ~8-12" viewing distance unless you are holding a magnifying lens to it. Anti-aliasing and font smoothing "tricks" are no longer needed. repoman27 selected 4.9" as his example because it's a "large enough" screen for most while still being pocketable and easy to hold with one hand for the majority of people. Reply
inighthawki - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - link"4.9" QHD isn't necessarily a "holy grail" but 600dpi is around the range where pixels are so small and close together that pixels cannot be distinguished from each other when viewed from a normal ~8-12" viewing distance unless you are holding a magnifying lens to it"
I'm sorry, but that point comes WAY before 600DPI. I have 300DPI devices which I struggle to see individual pixels from only 2-3 inches away. 600DPI is overkill for today's world. Those extra pixels could be sacrificed at nearly no cost to the end user (visually) and provide drastic improvements to battery life and brightness settings for the display. Reply
Veedrac - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkI'm with repoman27; your ability to distinguish pixels does not seem to be the same as mine.
Take an image with a freeform aliased solid 1px line zoomed at 100%. You should easily be able to see jaggedness. This is relevant in the ability to display high-quality text serifs.
My (rough) approximations are that I'll no longer be able to see jaggedness at normal distances (30 cm) from about 800ppi and up. That's the endgame. Reply
inighthawki - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkWell yeah, when you create a scenario that explicitly has tons of jaggies, it's possible to notice. But I have not seen OS shell UI that does not use antialiased graphics since like, Windows XP. Reply
Vi0cT - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkWhile I agree with you for the most part, some east-asian scripts (the ones used in Japanese, Cantonese and Mandarin) do benefit from higher densities.
Characters like these are pretty dense:
So I believe it is a bit early to suggest that the PPI race should stop when people in huge markets (like Japan and China) do benefit from the improvements.
Now OEMs need to strike a balance between increasing densities and increasing(or at least maintaining) battery life. Reply
inighthawki - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkFair point. Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkYeah, the East Asian scripts really drive the point home, but you'd be astonished at how much effort goes into hinting and hand tweaking bitmapped "screen fonts" even for Roman scripts due to the low resolution LCD displays we've been enduring for decades. Pinstripe patterns are another common example of where it's not enough to simply cross the threshold where individual pixels are no longer distinct to the naked eye. Try checking out the Google Image results for "Ben Davis striped shirt" for examples of how bad the moiré patterns can get when you don't have enough resolution.
In addition to being a fontography nerd, I used to do some prepress work and spent enough time hanging out at service bureaus and print shops to get a pretty good idea of how much resolution was necessary to avoid problems with most text or line art. 300 dpi was definitely not enough, 600 was much better, and in most cases I couldn't tell the difference between 600 and 1200 without a loupe unless there were halftones involved. Obviously my opinions are just that, but they are based on some degree of empirical evidence at least.
And I believe Windows XP actually introduced ClearType font smoothing to try to make text on the color LCDs of the day as readable as it was on CRTs. Reply
name99 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkYour experience with printing is completely irrelevant.
Print has only two levels of darkness and so has to use some form of spatial dithering to fake grey levels. Mobile screens have 8 bits of grey level and can use anti-aliasing to avoid the worst sorts of artifacts that plague print.
Now if you're on some sort of bizarre jihad that says everything should be displayed everywhere without using anti-aliasing techniques, you're welcome to your theological opinion, but it's not clear why that is a more useful goal than using technology (anti-aliasing) that exists and works well and, in return getting longer battery life. Reply
repoman27 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkMy experience with printing is 100% relevant. The whole point of going to higher resolutions is to avoid the visible artifacts of aliasing in the first place so we don't need to rely so heavily on techniques such as... "anti-aliasing". The pixels in an LCD matrix are locked in a fixed grid, if the image you're trying to display has more spatial resolution than that grid, aliasing can and often does occur. Anti-aliasing techniques do not make text on todays LCD screens look even remotely as good as print to the naked eye, and hand tweaked screen fonts are still de rigueur for complex scripts.
Incidentally, continuous tone digital printing has been with us since the late 80's, so basically the "Retina" display on the iPhone 4 finally brought us on par with output from an Iris 3024 back in 1987.
Anti-aliasing techniques do not actually solve the problem of aliasing, they simply attempt to mitigate the extent to which the aliasing is noticed. Higher resolutions on the other hand really can solve the problem of aliasing.
I'd very much like to see the actual power usage numbers for this display panel, because I'm betting I can find at least 6 other design decisions which had a greater impact on battery life than giving it an industry leading display. Furthermore, the power draw of these components is constantly being driven lower. As long as the delta between the power usage of the other suitable panels and this one isn't enough to completely blow the power budget, then there's no reason not to use it. I mean, it's not like we're talking about a small phone with a non-removeable battery and no microSD card slot here. It's a freakin' huge phone with a 2.5 GHz quad-core CPU, 3GB of RAM and a discrete LTE-A modem. Where I live, I probably won't see LTE-A lit up before this phone is several generations old, so that's nothing but design inefficiency to me. On the other hand, I do tend to read black and white text, on my phone, for hours, every day. Reply
AnnihilatorX - Monday, July 21, 2014 - linkAnti-aliasing is required even with a very high dpi. If you have a line slightly slanted at very small angle, e.g. 1 degree, the aliasing will be sorely visible. Try drawing a line in MS paint at a small angle on a 2k/4k monitor, and even at a distance you will be able to notice it. Anti-aliasing blur the transition over a few adjacent pixels and there is nothing evil about this technique. Reply
Vi0cT - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkJDI had a small panel (2" or so) that had density of 651 poi and it was pretty great for Japanese characters, so probably the good enough number is around ~650.
funny enough I ask myself why Microsoft stopped using ClearType in Modern in favor of your standard grey-scale anti-aliasing.
However, to be honest, while reading Japanese I kind of prefer the Standard solution as opposed to ClearType (Modern IE vs Desktop IE,
I.E) Reply
Vi0cT - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkhad a density*
Really Anandtech needs an edit option. Reply
saru44 - Friday, July 18, 2014 - link+100 Reply
saru44 - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkcompletely agree with you. Hope they dont forget the all important battery life while they strive towards the holy grail ppi.. Reply
BoneAT - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkInterestingly, DisplayMate found the S5 maximum brightness in auto mode when put under harsh lights a record-setting 698cd/m2, compared to the maximum manual brightness of 429cd/m2, which is 259cd/m2 extra, triggered under the sunlight. While I never had the chance to check it on the S5, I measured a 65% increase in brightness in auto mode when I did the testing under the sunlight. Of course the testing equipment needs to be tightly placed on the screen, and some thick black paper, cloth or plastic cut and put around it so external light doesn't influcence the max brightness.
I'm pretty sure the S5 LTE-A should rise above 500 nits, would you care to measure it under the sunlight, with auto-brightness +5? Reply
BoneAT - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - link65% increase with the K Zoom. Reply
JoshHo - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThe difference here is likely because DisplayMate is testing a scenario where the lit area of the display is as small as the sampled area by measuring equipment. Samsung's display driver reduces or increases maximum luminance according to the average picture level of the content displayed. Only very low average picture level will make it possible to reach 700 nits. Reply
BoneAT - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThat is certainly possible, Joshua. I did notice with the K Zoom though that the "special brightness" (using a fullscreen pure white image) is only available under direct sunlight, no phone flashlight or or bright spotlight was able to get the K Zoom to "special maximum". I'm curious to hear how you tested auto maximum, or if you can retest it under the Sun's power! Reply
JoshHo - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkInverse square law helps quite a bit in this regard. It's possible to get 40,000 lux registered on the sensor just using an LED flashlight, you just have to place the LED carefully. Reply
sheh - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkHow indicative are review samples compared with retail products? Reply
coburn_c - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkYour G2 numbers don't agree with gsmarena's, I wonder who is closer to the truth. You know there are two different G2 panels. Reply
GTRagnarok - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkThis bodes well for the Note 4. 2560x1440 on a 5.7" screen, especially one with a digitizer, has more tangible benefits. Reply
Lonyo - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkFrom a technical perspective, would it be possible to use 1/4 of the pixels when in a low power mode, so you effectively have a 720p display therefore at ~1/4 brightness and using 1/4 power?
Would be an interesting feature from a low light use or power saving scenario, e.g. watching a 720p video on your phone when it's dark.
Kind of odd use cases, but conceptually. Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkNo. 720p pixels at that display size are larger than the 1440p pixels at the same size. Therefore, if you only illuminate a quarter of the 1440p pixel, you end up with more black space around the lit pixels which would introduce all sorts of issues I bet. Reply
ShieTar - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkActually, this gives you a better contrast, from that point of view you would ideally want all your pixels to be spots instead of extended areas. The only reason you will never do this is that you can't get reasonable amounts of light through a much smaller area. So the fundamental idea would be quiet possible, but I don't know if a quarter of the pixels used at 4 times the intensity will actually save power versus the full resolution at a quarter intensity.
And it would probably be a bit complex to constantly switch the screen resolution, and expect OS and software to handle it. Reply
akdj - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkHmmm, do you mean ¼ of the pixels? Or a ¼ pixel? The former is what would amount to 720p. One of four pixels 'lit'. Not ¼. AMOLED displays aren't 'lighting' the black/dark pixel, hence the extreme contrast scores. One of the incredible attributes of AMOLED vs LCD. LCD and LED/IPS displays are constantly lighted, each pixel. AMOLED shuts them down of they're black. Hence a good idea for power savings at a still excellent resolution @ 5.5" Reply
pukemon1976 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkAsian people and other cultures with squiggly lines and shapes for characters will probably appreciate a higher res screen as it makes their text Mich easier to read. Less zooming and scrolling for those guys. As an English speaker and reader I wouldn't mind the higher rez's if we could scale back manually like our desktop monitors. That would alleviate the resources needed to support all those pixels and right now AFAIK, android is the only is that can circumvent it partially with DPI changes. It still taxes the GPU/CPU like the native rez AFAIK. I wouldn't mind if smartphone users had the option to scale down their 1080p screens to 720p. It would save on battery everywhere and make some older pass usable again where developers haven't updated or abandoned whatever app. What say you Google? Sigh. And apple and Microsoft? Let us change our resolutions to save battery and appease the cultures that would benefit from this when reading. Reply
kyuu - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkWhile changing to a lower resolution might be beneficial in reducing the amount of GPU power needed to render the picture, it will do absolutely nothing for the fact that a larger number of physical pixels will result in a higher power draw. You can't change the number of physical pixels on an LCD screen. For AMOLED, this means there will still be the same number of pixels lit up, and so the same power draw. For regular LCD technologies, you'll still need a stronger backlight.
Also, the argument that Asian languages need a higher PPI due to them being more complex is off-base. There's a really simple solution to reading them on lower PPI screens: increase the font size. Reply
Vi0cT - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkYeah but that isn't always practical.
Some sites (at least in my experience with Japanese) can't be zoom comfortably without having to do horizintal scroll, which is annoying.
Also zooming reduces the amount of text displayed. Reply
Vi0cT - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkHorizontal scrolling* Reply
sonicmerlin - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkA problem completely solved by text reflow. Unfortunately, only Android browsers have that feature. No other mobile OS does it. Reply
Vi0cT - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkYeah, but many sites in Asia simply don't support it yet, and while you could argue that it is the sites' fault but end users simply don't know Reply
Vi0cT - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkThough a lot of Asians sites don't support it yet, and from the end user POV it really doesn't matter if it's because of the Web or the Phone it just doesn't work.
But you do have a point that if Safari supported it, Web developers would be more likely to implement it. Reply
sonicmerlin - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkUh... Text reflow isn't something a website "supports". It's a feature of a browser. You zoom in on a web page until text has gone past the screen border, then double tap your screen and all the text automatically reflows to fit within your phone's window do view while maintaining the same zoomed in font size. Reply
Vi0cT - Monday, July 21, 2014 - linkThen I am rather unlucky because for me it works in a per site basis :/ Reply
akdj - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkFortunately you're wrong. iOS uses reflow as well. Reply
akdj - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkI should mention EVERY Browser I use in iOS as well as Android use reflow. I'm not familiar with Windows phones, but each browser bakes it into their code. Safari has had it since day one. I prefer iCab and Mercury or Chrome...but all four use reflow in their iOS browsers. Same as Android (I own both the 5s and Note3) Reply
sonicmerlin - Sunday, July 20, 2014 - link*facepalm* You obviously don't know what text reflow (aka text wrap) is. I'm using an iPad right now and none of the browsers have it. When you zoom in on a web page until the sentences flow past your screen border you can't automatically reformat the line width of the text so that it fits within your phone's view window. In fact Chrome on Android doesn't implement this feature either.
Some iOS browsers let you increase font size but more often than not this destroys the website's formatting and lines start to overlap. Text reflow is a far more elegant solution. Reply
dwade123 - Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - linkToo bad they can't test burn-ins, because OLED is full of them. Reply
janderk - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkOLED technology has evolved a lot. The last time I saw burn-ins on a OLED screen was on my Google Nexus One. And then only just slightly after a year of intensive use. Reply
zodiacfml - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkHmm, I got a feeling this S5 would leave the LG G3 in the dust. I think OLED is better fit for high resolution displays since it probably won't reduce power efficiency, only lower maximum brightness. Reply
zodiacfml - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - linkI have to correct it, not maximum brightness of the whole screen but local/pixel brightness. I also don't see anything bad with higher resolution displays as long it doesn't affect too much image quality, performance, power efficiency and price. The PPI of the Nexus 5 is well enough for me, it just needs AMOLED type of image quality since the "blacks" are pretty washed out. Reply
akdj - Friday, July 18, 2014 - linkHelps it has the quicker SoC, GPU and more RAM as well, I would assume. I was kinda shocked the G3 went with the 801/320 combo myself. The S5 going to the 805/420 was a smart move by Samsung, of course TouchWiz can use a few extra resources than 'other' OEM's UI Reply
emn13 - Sunday, July 20, 2014 - linkIsn't it weird to look at saturation accuracy over hue accuracy? We're much more sensitive to hue inaccuracies and *relative* saturation inaccuracies, but not really to *absolute* saturation inaccuracies.
In fact, because newer displays have the capability to show greater saturations, I can well imagine I'd prefer an inaccurate (but accurate in relative sense) screen that was oversaturated.
It certainly looks like saturated screens are possibly preferred by some if you look at the TV market.
Given the small gamut that sRGB actually covers, I'd prefer an analysis that emphasizes hue and relative saturation accuracy, and not absolute accuracy (as in, it's nice to know how saturated a screen is, but not to conflate that with accuracy in areas where it matters).
Although true perceptual quality does correlate with accuracy, it's far from a perfect correlation. More useful measurements (such as hue and grayscale accuracy) would make it easier to get a good picture of how good a screen actually is. Reply
AbRASiON - Saturday, August 02, 2014 - linkI completely agree regarding the race for unnecessary pixels in a phone display, but I will say that we actually do need a 4k display in 5.1" or 5.5" for devices like the Oculus rift.
This 2560x1440 display means only 1280x1440 resolution per eye, were it to go inside the Oculus version 3. With some really good AA, that's not bad but it's still not great. Reply
Sb87 - Tuesday, August 05, 2014 - linkCan you please add black level tests to the Mobile 14 Bench for both GS5 and this new display? Thanks! Reply
synaesthetic - Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - linkMake ridiculous nerd-phones with the highest resolution possible if you want, but I would still like some 720p devices with smaller sized screens (4.7 inches is good) so I can actually use the phone in one hand.
Currently Sony is the only company making "mini" versions with the same powerful silicon as the full-size flagships. Why Samsung and HTC have to nerf their minis is beyond me. Reply


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Apple's iOS 4 Exploredby Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/22/2010 3:27 AM EST
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jigglywiggly - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkI haven't used my iphone 3g in a while. I have been using the Droid and HTC EVO 4g.
These features have all been implemented better in Android anyway lawl. Reply
Rnair - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkI wonder why the other sites are not as objective! I understand IOS 4 and its pros and cons a bit better now :). Reply
medi01 - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkI could only imagine how "objective" other sites are.
Anand's site doesn't dare to display iSomethings in a bad light. Check recent article on android devices,
iphone is visible next to android phones, when it has advantage, but "incidentally dissapears" when it would look terrible (screen contrast).
What a shame... :( Reply
deputc26 - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkYeah i noticed the selective presence of the iphone in that android review as well. Reply
DLeRium - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkYou mean Anandtech only knows phones that are sold in the US? The rest of the phones fail to receive coverage. We all know how biased and limited the US cell phone market is. It only glances at part of the industry and only reveals part of the entire market. There's much more out there. Thank goodness for the N900 review, but honestly, if you want to do smartphones, do it like other sites do. Cover EVERY phone. Reply
medi01 - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - linkNo, being oriented to a particular market is ok for me.
But showing iSomething when it has advantage (even when it is irrelevant), but "incidentally" hiding it (the author explained it like: "oh, it was probably in my pocket", that explains it, right?), when it sucks balls (contrast, for starters) is a shame.
So it seems that we have Mr Jobbs corporation, that sells a fraction of Nokia's market share, but that enjoys free, positive or very positive but god forbid negative, coverage in press.
I recall anand's site as rather objective (even though they seem to aggressively punch AMD quite a bit more than deserved recently, it was rather subtle, compared to what other sites do), so it's VERY frustrating, that it also bends to a Mr Apple's will.
:((( Reply
Rnair - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkI agree that the smartphone is getting more and more complicated. Good for us teck geeks :).
But, Is it time to get back to the roots and introduce a version that is more basic, anyone for an iphone mini (an ala kin) ? Reply
eirikma - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - link...then windows 95 is a cluster operating sytem. Even old versions of symbian does better than that.
Any smart phone user who've tried using a computer knows that there are limits to how many thing you can do at once. When things stop working, you have to close down something. It is actually that simple - you don't have to "invent" absolutely everywhere. Reply
SkullOne - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkYeah but this is Apple we're talking about. If they didn't invent or improve upon it then it sucks. ;) My Droid has never run out of memory with its multitasking and I have it doing quite a bit at times.
Apple didn't do multitasking "the right way." They did it half-assed and claim that it's magically delicious.
All I can say is it's about time iOS finally caught up to Android...oh wait they're still behind because Android 2.2 is upon us bringing JIT compiler and Flash 10.1.
I'll keep my rooted, overclocked Droid with Froyo ROM thanks. Hope iPhone users enjoy iAds. AdMob in apps on my old iPhone 3G drove me insane, glad my Droid doesn't have that problem. It's nice actually having control over the hardware you pay for. ;) Reply
sigmatau - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkMultitasking is not at all what I expected and am very dissapointed. This is one feature I have been waiting for several months.
I found the memory problem myself using Safari and multiple tabs. Some of the multiple tabs would dump whenever you scrolled through them, and then all of them would dump when you would switch to another app and back to Safari. I cleared out all the "multitasking" apps and opened up Safari again. I reloaded all tabs and they stayed fully loaded when I switched to a system monitor app to look at my memory.
Before clearing out the "multitasking" apps I had 5mb of free RAM. After clearing out the "multitasking" apps, I had 125mb free. They really, really need to give you the option to chose what to multitask. Why do I need Phone, Settings, Contacts, Clock to go in the "multitasking" bar? It makes no sense. Apple is 1 year behind others in implementing multitask and it surely is not as good as the competition.
I wont even go into being pissed that they haven't fixed the basic phone alert functions and other simple things you could do with most other free phones never mind smart phones. Reply
iamafish - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkMultitasking means running many tasks at once, not saving them and coming back to them later... The switching is fairly poor as well, nothing as seamless as Palm, personally I like how Nokia have done it on the N900/Maemo, tap the top corner and get a grid of previews, tap the preview to switch, 2 clicks and switched - on a properly multitasking OS.
Looks to me like Apple are in danger of repeating past mistakes and getting complacent, Android is improving very rapidly, and if MeeGo can build on Maemo then it's going to be good, HPs money behind WebOS can't be forgotten and Symbian is a long way from dead and has a very mature base to build on. Reply
medi01 - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkSymbian simply "long way from dead"? Last time I checked, it had 40% of the market.
But it was worldwide, not US, mind you. Reply
solipsism - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkLooks to me like you didn't read carefully. The multitasking APIs offer true multitasking, if the developer chooses, at a fraction of the cost from running each app fully in the background. The saved state is an option, but it's not the only option as detailed in this article and elsewhere.
If I am running 5 apps, for example, that need to get my location constantly or periodically I don't need those 5 separate apps all running in the background pulling cellular and GPS data as well as everything else they need. I only need the single geolocation API to be tied to those apps and be running. One process to rule them all. How can you not see that as a benefit? Reply
sigmatau - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkAnd what is the benefit of having Phone, Settings, Clock, etc taking up memory in the "multitask" bar? Now my phone's memory is constantly full with apps that surely don't need to be multitasked and everytime I need to load an app, another has to be unloaded first since I only have 5mb of memory free.
Apple really should allow the user to chose what apps to multitask when they want them to multitask. Simply holding down the home key instead of clicking it once would do it. But we are talking about Apple and they apparently know best.... Reply
solipsism - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkUgh... That isn't a "multitask bar" it's a "fast app switcher bar".
The apps in there aren't necessarily taking up any RAM, they are just the last apps you have used recently, in order. If you restart your iPhone and then double0tap the Home button they will all show up in the list.
The reason for this is so you don't keep losing track of the complexity of folders. You can always easily go back to the most recent apps you have used regardless of where you are in the system or what app you are using. Reply
sigmatau - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkSee my post above. They do take memory. Not sure where you getting that they aren't taking memory. Basicaly after using the phone for an hour or so, anyone will have only 5mb of free RAM. I usualy have around 100mb free before OS4.
Also the "fast app switcher bar" is not fast at all when you get to scroll 4 icons at a time to get to the app you want. And when the phone has to ALWAYS dump one app from memory to load a new one, this is NOT faster but slower. Not only that, but this screws with Safari and multiple tabs.
By Apple not giving us a choice on what to multitask, they tried to make the experience easy for every, they screwed many of the functions of the phone. You do not need Phone, Clock, Settings, etc. to go the that bar. It makes no sense. Reply
DLeRium - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkProper push notifications make it UNNECESSARY for full blown multitasking.
As an Android user I Wish I had push notifications so I can leave my IM app on without fear of it KILLING my battery.
Apple has already addressed the cases where you DO need an app to be running:
1) Music/Voice
3) Downloads
4) Go to completion
The others can be accomplished by saved states/push notifications/completion. The fact is you can't interact with simultaneous apps anyway... on any OS. WebOS just has that flick thing to look "cool" but do you really need to run 8 apps at a time? Unless you can cascade your windows and use it well on a 3.5" screen it's overrated.
I am a Symbian S60 user who has experienced full multitasking since the beginning of time. I moved down to Android which is a downgrade in that sense, and the iPhone could be a bigger downgrade. However, I actually DO want push notifications and many of the battery saving features of the iPhone.
You can complain about how this is a walled garden and how in principle Apple is evil for restricting you, but they actually got things right this time. For the end user it makes NO DIFFERENCE if you have full blown multitasking or not. Maybe you like how most Android devices barely get by 1 day of charge... Reply
solipsism - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - linkSo you're going on record claiming that when if you restart your iPhone, iOS will automatically load every single app in the Fast App Switching bar into RAM upon restarting. Good luck with that one! :\ Reply
SunSamurai - Friday, June 25, 2010 - linkThis is a PHONE. Do you WANT the battery to last 30 min per charge? All the modern phones are doing it similer to this. Yes even droid. They get very minimal to NO CPU power in the background.
This is a GOOD thing people. And to you people bitching about ads, get OVER IT. You want free apps on your droid/iphone/etc? You will get ads. Reply
eloquentloser - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - link"I agree that the smartphone is getting more and more complicated. Good for us teck geeks :)."
Can someone explain this new folders invention to me - it sounds terribly counter-intuitive. ;-) Reply
Sazar - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkFolders reduces clutter and reduces the number of swipes/pages you need to navigate to :)
Essentially, I went from 6 pages of apps to 1, when I put everything into folders, labelled correctly. It takes a little getting used to and it is definitely a little different, but reducing clutter == props from me. Reply
Nehemoth - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkIn the calendar I do not understand why apple (or any other big player in the smartphone area) don't allow calendar information to be added.
For example, I live in Dominican Republic, we have a lot of not-working days in the year, so would be amazing if we can find a way in which we tell to the apple calendar which are those days, more amazing even would be if for example we have the option so those days the alarm doesn't sound as is expected the normal days. Reply
wittaker25 - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkJust use google sync to get google calendar on your phone. You can mark off-days through google calendar. Works with my ipod touch. Reply
mathias_mm - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkYou can probably find a feed somewhere on the net that has those in it - i know it exists for Denmark, which is all i need.
I have no idea if this calendar is any good (I searched for dominican republic holidays ical feed on Google):
So, you take that link and paste it into your phone. This has to be done in a weird spot, i think it's inside the mail art of settings where you tap add account, and you can then choose calendar. Then the phone will add all the dates from that feed into the calendar app. Any changes done in the feed will also be updated on your end. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkYou forgot to mention when listing supported devices that iOS 4 is available for 2nd and 3rd gen iPod Touch as well. What's more, it's free. As an iPod Touch owner this is one of the most important aspects of iOS 4. Device fragmentation may be getting worse with the introduction of the iPad and now iPhone 4, but at least OS fragmentation is being addressed.
Hopefully, you'll be able to run some performance comparisons between iOS 3.1.3 on the iPhone 3GS and quite important for those users, iPhone 3G. Reply
dumpsterj - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkwhy wont they bring this stuff to verizon ? im using an almost 2 year old samsung omnia. Im waiting out to see what windows phone 7 brings to the table (im a zune guy). I would seriously consider switching to the ipod/iphone ecosystem if they would bring it to verizon. However , after spending time with a friend who had att , his phone cut out all the damn time while my old omnia and vzw had no problem. Ill never use ATT Reply
CiNcH - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkI don't really get the test with multitasking and the conclusions that were made concerning battery life. If you are doing two expensive tasks at the same time, it will of course drain the battery. With Pandora running in the background, you get about a fifth less of time for web browsing (either 3G or WiFi). Isn't that reasonable? I mean someone has to decode audio.. and according to the specs, the iPhone can do so for about 40 hours and not an infinite amount of time. Reply
vol7ron - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - link"...when you return to the home screen you'll actually end up in the last folder you were in. Hit the home button a second time to actually get to the home screen. I suspect this is a bug that Apple will fix however."
I have not upgraded yet, but I could see this as a good thing, rather than a bug. With a JB iOS, there is an app called Categories, that provides the folder functionality. It performs how you would like: you go to an app, when you hit the home button, it takes you back home, not back to the folder.
I'm not a fan of that. One of my folders is "websites" or "print," which house apps from websites (eBay, Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, etc) or journal apps (Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, RSS Reader, TechCrunch, etc), respectively. If I'm getting my daily reading in, it's annoying to have to keep re-opening the folder. The same would be true if you're in a mood to play games. I'd be more likely to go from game to game.
I could also see this feature having benefits. If you put all your primary apps in a folder, then essentially you could create a home screen folder, thereby negating the need to go to the actual home screen. What I hope to happen is that the Springboard will be filled with folders, instead of apps. I may also hope to put folders inside of folders.
vol7ron Reply
solipsism - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkI'm with you. I can see Anand and/or Brian's point on the matter as a personal preference, but the best method is to have a folder remain open until the user chooses to close it.
If you need to get out of the folder quickly just hit the Home button again or hit anywhere outside the folder, but if you need to get back to the folder constantly it can be annoying to flip pages, open the folder and then click another app. Reply
Sazar - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkYah, I see their point but I have had no problems navigating in folders right now.
I can still get back to the home-page, with an extra click, but it sure as heck beats the swiping from side to side to get to what I wanted before.
Still getting used to it. Reply
rallstarz - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkForgive me for peeking at your email Anand, but I'd be excited about a fro-yo review on anandtech.... maybe fro-yo making machines, fro-yo flash freezers, fro-yo dispensers... Reply
Stuka87 - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkOver all I like the upgrade. My phone feels more snapping in several areas (3GS). However, I have two big issues.
1: In Mail, I want a "Mark All Read" option. I tgets *SO* old having to go through 30-40 emails because I read them on another device. Not an issue with my Exchange mail, but is a major issue with my POP3 mail.
2: I wish I could exclude some apps from multi tasking. Because now I find myself running 4-5 apps at the same time. And most of them are apps that don't need two. Like weather, or calculator. I would love it if I could say "Dont ever multi-task this app". The same could be applied to some games. Reply
metafor - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - link"We still need faster SoCs and more power efficient platforms to make multitasking work on smartphones. I say faster SoCs because one of the best ways to improve power efficiency is to complete tasks quicker so that the CPU can return to an idle state.
Because current smartphone SoCs don't have the level of performance needed to quickly execute a ton of extra instructions and get back to sleep, smartphone OSes have to keep background tasks to a minimum. For the most part you don't have to worry about what applications you have open on your notebook, your CPU is efficient enough and you have enough battery power to churn through any instructions idle apps may be throwing at it. We're not quite there yet in smartphones."
I'm afraid this isn't true. The only difference between a netbook processor and a smartphone processor is that the former is running off of a relatively honking battery. Having the CPU "finish the task faster" is absolutely not a power advantage.
Let's break down the 2 main areas of power usage for a CPU:
1. Leakage. Here, you can make the argument that if a CPU is active longer, it suffers more total energy that is leaked between VDD and GND. However, this is almost entirely offset and in most cases overshadowed by the fact that a faster CPU (running either at a higher frequency, has more parallel execution resources, or runs on faster transistors) will always be significantly leakier than their slower counterparts. Leakage increases with the square of voltage and as everyone will tell you, when a CPU ramps up in frequency, it will scale up its voltage.
2. Dynamic current. This only gets worse at faster frequencies. Whether you're charging/discharging 500 million times a second (500MHz) or 1 billion times a second (1GHz), the same tasks requires the same number of charges/discharges whether it happens in 1 second or 2 seconds. The same amount of energy to perform the work is used. However, as mentioned before, to make a chip run faster, you'll have to also up the voltage and/or use leakier (but faster) transistors.
In fact, the argument for dual-core being more power efficient is that in the case where 2 cores running at 500MHz doing the same amount of work (assuming you're running, say, 2 tasks that would otherwise be context switched in the same CPU) as 1 core at 1 GHz, the 2-core solution would draw less power since a core running at 500MHz uses less than half the power of a 1GHz core.
You are absolutely right in that the limitations of multitasking has to due with power efficient CPU's and it is a compelling argument for multi-core cell phone SoC's and perhaps even heterogeneous multi-core SoC's. Luckily, we'll be seeing those soon enough in the next year or so. Reply
Matt Campbell - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkAngry Birds is a great game - but why do you have both the Lite and Full version installed in the screen shot? :)
So far, my biggest likes of iOS4 are the responsiveness (3GS definitely feels faster) and the email threads, which really help on my Exchange account. I read a lot of eBooks on Stanza and will probably stick with that for the short term. Reply
SunSamurai - Friday, June 25, 2010 - linkBecause he tried it before he buyed it? ;) Reply
Polizei - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkI love that Anand is bumpin the 50 cent during his Iphone interview. Funny choice :D Reply
synaesthetic - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkAnyone know if these ads show up on the iPod touch 3G upgraded to iOS 4?
If so I probably won't buy a Touch...
I don't understand why *anyone* would prefer ads to paying more for software. Seriously, it's not worth it to me. TV commercials are bad enough. Reply
SunSamurai - Friday, June 25, 2010 - linkYou dont understand why people dont want to spend money when they dont have to? Reply
jasperjones - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linktbh, I somewhat doubt it... Reply
jay401 - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkiAds will probably be enough to keep me from getting the new iPhone to replace my current cell phone. i just don't trust Apple with that sort of power over my user experience.
i dont want ads interrupting and distracting me from my task. i want to get my chosen task done efficiently and quickly.
"If it wanted to Apple could even sell ads in books."
Yes, if Apple wanted customers to drive to Cupertino to punch the iAds team directly in the face. Reply
SunSamurai - Friday, June 25, 2010 - linkGet over it. Its either ads or no free apps. Reply
robco - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkAdMob isn't blocked from the iPhone, nor does Apple have a monopoly. Since AdMob is owned by Google, a major competitor with Android, there are some analytics Apple won't allow AdMob to access. If you think about it, this makes perfect sense, why give a competitor access to information on potential customers (who are presently your customers)? Developers can still use AdMob if they wish, they just won't get as much data.
So far I haven't had many issues. I think we're still waiting for developers to catch up to the new OS. But it works like a charm on my 3GS. Folders is a little clunky, but I'm happy not to have to swipe across multiple home screens to access apps. As for the iPhone 4, the only real compelling feature for me is the new camera with flash. Since I have a 3GS, I'd have to pay through the nose to "upgrade" and I won't do that until LTE is rolled out and the iPhone supports it. Oh, and it's available on a network that isn't AT&T.
Android is looking good, but Google does a horrible job with UI. I know they have UI designers working there, but it appears nobody at Google listens to them. Stock Android looks like Windows 3.1. Reply
anandtech02148 - Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - linkiAds sounds yuck, i'll keep my 3GS and the old os3xxx. another reason why iphone 3gs is so popular because it has a pirate community, reminder to the pc system where you where you have a vibrant thriving hacking community for warez, gamez,. apzz., Google Droid can go to hell, a billion dollars in marketing from verizon won't save you.. Look at Google trying to get back into China. what will hapen to Symbian ^3? nokia N8 looks appealing from hardware standpoint..but their software really needs refresing idea like Palm OS. Intel and Nokia are great hardware companies but software they really need a saviour. Reply
haplo602 - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - linkwow, so Apple is finaly introducing basic features into it's sofware ... how suprising and inovative ...
seriously ... I gave up in the middle of the article. there's nothing interesting in it. just the shock at people thanking Apple for providing basic features (ipod playlists FINALY editable, now that's groundbreaking).
my age old HTC Herald can do all these things already a few years. Sure the HW is old and slow, but the functionality is still there. Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - linkThat a customer (and tech reviewer) can (blindly?) trust a company that is worth over half a trillion USD to look out for him is astonishingly naive, stupid, or malicious, possibly all 3 and even more.
A company that has a proven record of shady decisions (we will ban this app, oh wait, it gets media attention, let's actually allow it!), shady handling of the press (accidental leaks, rumors, investigations), shady handling of its competition (violating patents, very closed system) should have the end users best interest at heart? Are you insane?
After reading this and the Froyo article, I have deleted my AT bookmark and will refrain from coming here in the future.
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The surprise appearance of re-entry draft pick and former star Jeff Cunningham raised eyebrows at Crew practice this morning.
So did the presence of Indianapolis Colts punter/kicker/holder Pat McAfee, and it appears the football player's participation in practice might be more than a lark.
Crew coach Robert Warzycha McAfee is slated to stick around for a few more days and that the former college soccer player "showed us he is a pretty good player."
"He wanted to be in a pro environment and try it out, Warzycha said. "I dont think we would close the door to anybody just because they play a different sport. Well see what happens next. I dont think well take him to Phoenix (for preseason camp) but he can play and he knows the game. He kicked the hell out of a few balls.
McAfee is still under contract with his NFL team, a Colts spokesman said. He appeared in 14 games this season.
The Pennsylvania native played youth and college soccer while also playing football at West Virginia. He was selected by the Colts in the seventh round of the 2009 draft.
McAfee and Warzycha have a mutual friend in Robert Morris University women's soccer coach John Kowalski, a former MLS head coach (Tampa Bay).
McAfee was suspended for a Nov. 1 game against Houston following an October arrest for public intoxication in Indianapolis. He was allegedly swimming in a canal at about 5 a.m. on a Wednesday morning before he was taken into custody.
McAfee Tweeted this afternoon that he was "sightseeing" in Columbus with Colts teammate and former Ohio State receiver Anthony Gonzalez.
Cunningham has so far refused to agree to a contract after he was selected by the Crew in the December re-entry draft.
He surprised the Crew when he called a team staffer this morning to ask directions to the SuperKick facility in Lewis Center. He was in Europe last week for an informal tryout with IK Start of Norway. He had a solo workout at the indoor facility today.
He wanted to say hi and that he was sorry if he caught us off-guard by showing up unannounced, Crew technical director Brian Bliss said.
Warzycha said Cunninghams arrival is an indication that Jamaican-born forward is serious about signing with his former team although his agent, Jan Schiefloe, said only that Cunningham has an offer on the table from the Crew.
Cunningham, 34, scored 33 goals in three seasons for FC Dallas and led the league with 17 goals in 2009. His option was declined by the club and he was selected by the Crew in the re-entry draft, giving the Crew Cunninghams MLS rights indefinitely.
Cunningham has also played for Colorado and Salt Lake. He scored 62 goals for the Crew from 1998-2004 and is tied with Brian McBride for the club record. He needs one goal to tie Jaime Morenos MLS record of 133.


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LOVE this shadow!I got this shadow in Lucky Penny as part of a free gift with purchase and LOVE IT. The shadow is soft and goes on well, which I love. The color is FANTASTIC--it's a favorite of mine, especially when combined with the Touch Tint Shimmer in Gold Glimmer as a base. Decent length of wear although it does crease on me (I haven't found a shadow that doesn't yet. I use primer with Colour Surge shadow and...read more it works great!) A decent amount of pigment, especially with the primer. Good quality and good product. I am running out and will probably buy a full-sized one to replace it. — 8 years, 6 months agoLipglossandSpandex | 521 reviews
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Peacock - nice shimmery teal/green eyeshadowI usually buy MAC eye shadows for bold colors, and soft/pastel color shadows from Clinique. I fell in love right away with the color "Peacock" when I saw it for the first time at a Clinique counter. I did not think it would work for my eye color (dark brown), but fortunately this is not pure green eye shadow. It is green-based with a hint of blue and gold. It comes with good pigmentation, but it i...read mores not too dark. It looks and feels nice on my eye lids. The color stays pretty well (it is even better with a primer). Unfortunately, I don't feel the same way with another green-based Colour Surge "Sparkling Sage" which I got free as a bonus item. It was sparkly & shimmery, but the color itself was too pearly for me. I have fun with fabulous green/teal eyeshadow! — 6 years, 10 months agoluckybetty | 895 reviews
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What Putin means by Shanghai Union is actually the Turkish-Islamic Union
Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Interview on A9 TV dated July 25th, 2012
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ADNAN OKTAR: What is meant by Shanghai Union is the Turkish-Islamic Union. Or else, we have no business with Shanghai, etc.. The real Shanghai Union, the real NATO, the real European Union is actually the Turkish Islamic Union. Consequently, if he says "yes, okay," then he would be saying "let us unite with the Islamic world." Once they act with the Islamic world, the Turkish Islamic Union would thus be formed. Russia would thus become a member of it as well. But Putin is a brave man, masha'Allah. This is a conversation like we meant to have. May Allah be pleased with our Prime Minister. I have asked him to talk about this. I mean of course this is the extent to which one can say it openly. He cannot say; "let us form the Turkish-Islamic Union, let us establish the Unity of Islam, so that you can be a member." In a wise, diplomatic language he refers to the Turkish-Islamic Union saying; "Let us in the Shanghai Union." This is what is meant here, masha'Allah. This is what diplomatic wisdom requires. But Putin is a brave young man. The way he walks and his gestures etc. are exactly in compliance with such a character, if you pay attention to the way he walks you'll see. Putin is a man that should be appreciated well; his honestly is nice, his affection towards Islam is nice. He is a man who loves Allah, he is a man from the side of Allah, he is a man advocating freedoms.. He would find the Turkish Islamic Union beautiful but of course that is not valid for bigotry. If these men attempt to turn it into a union of bigots the whole world would resist to that, first of all we would resist to that. That is not acceptable. That is why if that happens with an enlightened, reasonal understanding of Islam, with a modern understanding of Islam, with a loving, fervent understanding of Islam that is full of compassion, Russia would very willingly join such a union, so would China. China is a nation that is open to love. For instance I have criticized them, I have talked about them and they were very kind. They immediately invited our friends to China. And they have gone to China in a big group as the guests of the Chinese state. We've looked into things and now they are waiting for our comments for days, they are calling us insistently from the embassy asking us what our comments are. Our comment is of course good in general. It is good because they have looked into things and saw that the cities are really well-kept, the municipalities are well-kept. There is no such poverty. The way they eat and drink is all okay. Their clothing etc. is all good. There is noone in poverty, in wretchedness, there is no such community. But freedom, freedom is very important. We've asked them to do the utmost to increase the freedoms and the annulment of death sentence. That is very horrible my brother, people would be terrified by that. We of course put our trust in Allah but people might be horrified.For instance those busses of execution are outrageous, they are like a nightmare. You put your execution bus in front of the man's house, they get inside the neighbourhood and there are children around. This is an inconceivable ignominy. The hands and ears of the man are tied from behind, they drag him inside the bus. And they take out the man's corpse from the side door. How can there be such a violence, how can there be such ignominy? That does not befit China. Take them and imprison them if necessary. Noone would say anything about that. But even then the conditions in the prisons should be humane, they should be within the European standards. That is not something difficult. There is no need for severe punishments. They attempt to hang a young girl just because she did not pay her taxes. Look at this ignominy, look at this outrage. Just because she didn't pay her taxes. If she didn't pay her taxes you give her a penalty fine the most and that is it. You can confiscate her wealth. But to hang her over this is such an ignominy. Have you gone mad? And that is a young girl. But apart from this, Chinese people are amicable people in general. They do not have such aggressive manners. We would be very happy if they correct their such behaviour, insha'Allah.


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WOLVES' Challenge Cup quarter-final success at Bradford was a mark of how far the team have come in the space of a month.
Since losing to bottom-of-the-table Bulls on May 5 this was Wolves' fifth win on the trot, securing a fifth Challenge Cup semi-final appearance in six years.
On their last trip to the Provident Stadium, Odsal, Tony Smith's men were low on confidence and struggling to string together consistent attacking moves, while also missing a glut of tackles.
That is not how it is now.
Wolves defended stoutly and ran up their highest away win of the year.
Smith settled his 'three half backs will not fit into two shirts' conundrum by pitching Stefan Ratchford at loose forward, and it was he, Richie Myler and Chris Bridge who ran the show.
Energetic Ratchford, who also figured in the second row and half backs during the 80 minutes, ran his blood to water – making 41 tackles, regular ground-gaining runs out of dummy half as well as creating a couple of tries.
Livewire Myler, starting a game for the first time since the home Super League loss to Hull KR in April, joined Joel Monaghan in crossing for two scores – the opener in the 14th minute seemed to settle early nerves and the decisive effort in the 65th minute as Wolves pulled 30-10 clear.
And in-form Bridge, celebrating his England squad recall, had his hand in the majority of Wolves' best attacking play, including two tries that counted and two that did not in a second half which he ended with seven conversions from eight attempts.
Once again Chris Hill and Anthony England got Wolves on the front foot early on, the latter having his best game for Warrington in Smith's eyes.
Michael Monaghan was dominant around the ruck and his presence will be missed after tearing his calf in the final three minutes.
However, Wolves have found ways of coping without Ben Westwood, Paul Wood, Trent Waterhouse, Ben Harrison, Matty Russell, Simon Grix, Ratchford and Myler for chunks of the season and judging from current form can rise to the challenge again.
Wolves' highest away win of the year
Five wins on the trot is Wolves' best form of the season
Gene Ormsby's first Challenge Cup try for Warrington
First start at loose forward for Stefan Ratchford
Simon Grix's first game since picking up injury in the home loss to Hull KR on April 11
Ryan Atkins was also a try scorer and Chris Bridge was also the goal kicker in the 2010 quarter-final success away to Bradford.
Chris Bridge broke the 150-point barrier for the season so far, he has scored 12 tries and 53 goals.
The turnout at Bradford was the lowest attendance across the quarter-finals, 5,064, with 7,145 turning out at Leeds, 5,252 at Widnes and 8,736 at Wigan.
Tetley's Challenge Cup quarter-final Sunday, June 8
Bradford Bulls...10 Warrington Wolves...46
Bulls: Lee Gaskell; Elliot Kear, Adrian Purtell, Matty Blythe, Luke George; Danny Addy, Luke Gale; Manase Manuokafoa, Matt Diskin, Chev Walker, Jay Pitts, Tom Olbison, James Donaldson. Subs: Adam Sidlow, Adam O'Brien, Jamal Fakir, Adam Henry.
Wolves: Matty Russell; Gene Ormsby, Joel Monaghan, Ryan Atkins, Rhys Evans; Chris Bridge, Richie Myler; Chris Hill, Michael Monaghan, Anthony England, Ben Harrison, Ben Currie, Stefan Ratchford. Subs: Micky Higham, Roy Asotasi, Simon Grix, Ben Evans.
Scoring: Myler try, 14mins, Bridge goal, 0-6; Kear try, 19mins, 4-6; Atkins try, 22mins, Bridge goal, 4-12; Russell try, 27mins, Bridge goal, 4-18; George try, 46mins, Gale goal, 10-18; Ormsby try, 53mins, Bridge goal, 10-24; Myler try, 65mins, Bridge goal, 10-30; Joel Monaghan try, 69mins, Bridge goal, 10-36; Joel Monaghan try, 75mins, Bridge goal, 10-42; Currie try, 78mins, 10-46.
Referee: Phil Bentham
Penalties: Bulls 4 Wolves 7
Attendance: 5,064
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FAIRFIELD, Ohio (AP) -- Police in the southwest Ohio city of Fairfield are trying to determine what happened to a 15-year-old girl found dead about nine hours after she was reported missing.
Police have called the death of Chelsea Johnson a homicide, but they haven't released any details on the cause. The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/IiAOv3 ) reports that an autopsy was planned Tuesday.
She was found behind an apartment building Monday evening, about 2 miles from her home.
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Gymnastics takes first in league, again, steps up at districts
In the gym practicing before districts, the Mount Si gymnasts were doing their best to up their game.
Hannah Richmond was pushing a bars routine, while McKenzie Brown was working on a new floor routine—a tumbling pass with a long name, the round off back whip back tuck.
"It's kind of like a backhand spring with no hands," said Brown, a sophomore. She'd tried it earlier in the season, so "I should get there pretty quickly."
Richmond was adding "giants," more complex moves, and a different mount.
"If I hit it, I'll have our team score go up by two points—a lot."
Struggling to get the giants, Richmond is starting to get them now.
"Putting them in takes a lot of endurance," she said. "But I think I can do it. I've got to mentally tell myself that I can."
Postseason is the time to do their best. There just isn't much time left.
"But if we want to make a run for the first place, we've got to improve on a few things," said gymnastics head coach Jessica Easthope. "The girls are really trying."
On Saturday, Mount Si performed well, coming in first at the SeaKing District meet at Sammamish High School.
Mount Si once again dominated league in team scores, finishing first in KingCo for the fifth year in a row during the league championships held Saturday, Feb. 2, at Roosevelt High School in Seattle.
Mount Si was tops in point totals, dominating on vault, bars and beam. Sammamish, no 2, had a higher floor total.
In all-around scores, Mount Si's Jenn Rogers took third, followed by sophomore Hailey Johnson at fifth, Hannah Richmond at sixth and Pauline Kaczmarek at 13th.
On vault, Johnson was second to Sammamish's Nykaela Dodson; Dodson had a 9.6, and Johnson had an 8.95. Kaczmarek was fourth with 8.65.
On bars, Richmond was second, Rogers was seventh, Abby Weber was eighth and Johnson was ninth.
On beam, Rogers was third, Elizabeth Holmes was fourth, Richmond was fifth, Johnson was eighth. Carissa Castagno was tied for 17th.
Rogers was sixth on floor, followed by Castagno at seventh.
Now, Mount Si begins to see tougher competition at districts and state.
Besides Richmond and Brown, other athletes are stepping up. Castagno and Rogers are coming with stronger and bigger vaults, and Kaczmarek is working to reach her peak on bars and vault.
"It's easy to be confident," says Brown. The Wildcats are good, and they're also a family.
"We try to have the most fun we can at meets," Brown said. "It calms all of us."
Follow Mount Si gymnastics at http://mshsgymnastics.weebly.com/
Above, Jenn Rogers was proud and confident after nailing a 9.5 on the floor. For her, it was about consistency: Hitting her routine without any flaws.
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Reports from Bulgarian media outlets say that a woman aided the bomber and his suspected male accomplice, who used the fake identity of David Jefferson, in their plans for the attack. Investigators reportedly found "biological evidence" from the three at their hotel. According to Bulgarian media, investigators suspect that the woman, whose identity was not revealed, was a contact person who guided the perpetrator in Bulgaria.
According to other European media reports, "Jefferson" may now be making his way to London, where he is believed to be planning an attack on the Olympic Village by using an explosive device that was not used in the Burgas attack.
Bulgarian police on Saturday distributed a police composite sketch of the suspected male accomplice to hotels in Burgas and in the surrounding area. The authorities suspect that the accomplice has ties to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.