Comment by nospice
14 hours ago
I don't think people care all that much about phones. It's just that phones are power-constrained, so manufacturers wanted to move to OLEDs to save on backlight; and because the displays are small, the tech was easier to roll out there than on 6k 32-inch monitors.
But premium displays exist. IPS displays on higher-end laptops, such as ThinkPads, are great - we're talking stuff like 14" 3840x2160, 100% Adobe RGB. The main problem is just that people want to buy truly gigantic panels on the cheap, and there are trade-offs that come with that. But do you really need 2x32" to code?
Most people, including people who work professionally with computers, spend more time per day looking at their phones than they do at their screens.
I expect people are VERY sensitive to mobile phone screen quality, to the point that it's a big factor in phone choice.
Which ThinkPad has a 14" 4K 100% Adobe RGB compliant IPS display?
As far as I can see, 4k Thinkpad IPS are DCI-P3. There are Yogas with 3.2k Adobe RGB tandem OLEDs.
The other thing about phones is that you have your old phone with you when you buy a new one, so without even really meaning to you're probably doing a side by side direct comparison and improvements to display technology are a much bigger sales motivator.
This is the insight that sold a billion iPhones. They were obsessed with what happens when you’re at the store, and you don’t need a new phone, and you pick one up, and…
Outside Thinkpads IPS is basically the cheap/default option on laptops, with OLED being the premium choice. With Thinkpads TN without sRGB coverage is the cheap/default option, with IPS being the premium choice.
I'm just getting my new ThinkPad tomorrow with an OLED screen. The X1 Carbon. I haven't seen TN film in ThinkPads for years.
But yes, you are right, they are conservative on new tech in the ThinkPad lineage.