By Fennie | 31 July 2020 | 0 Comments

What's The Difference Between iPhone X Original Screen and Aftermarket Screen

The most expensive part of the iPhone X is the OLED special-shaped full screen, also called the flexible screen. Its display part is soft and bendable, and there is no backlight paper. It is more valuable than the iPhone X core motherboard. This screen is beautiful and fragile, and it is easy to break the screen if you accidentally touch the screen. According to the phone repair quotation on Apple's official website, the repair price of the iPhone X screen is $279 for out of warranty and $549 for the other damage, as we all know that Apple list the iPhone back glass broken repair to other damage. If the screen and back glass break down at the same time, then the repair cost is $279 + $549 = $828, and the original price of a 64GB iPhone X is only $999 in US in 2017.
 
So if your iPhone X front and rear screens are broken, don’t fix it and buy a new one! Compared with the original screen, iPhone X aftermarket screen is cheaper about $215. Let’s talk about the "learning of iPhone X screen" below ".
 

1. The types of iPhone X screen
The original screen: original disassembled screen (original second-hand), original rear press glass cover screen (original display plus rear press cover), original replacement touch screen (original display plus replacement touch and cover)
 
Aftermarket screen (substitute screen): Tianma TFT screen (also called LCD screen, with backlight), OLED rigid screen, OLED flexible screen, etc.
 
The original screen is the same screen as the new one, which is the most expensive screen at present. The price difference between the aftermarket screen and the original screen is as high as $215. Some high imitation OLED screens cannot be seen by inexperienced people.

 

Tianma TFT screen uses LCD screen with backlight, which has the worst display effect and touch feeling; OLED iPhone X rigid screen is hard, although it does not require a backlight, but it is not a true OLED screen.
 
2. The difference between original screen and aftermarket screen
In terms of quality: (original disassembled screen) is better than (original rear pressing glass cover screen) is better than (OLED flexible screen) is better than (original replacement touch screen) is better than (OLED rigid screen) is better than (Tianma TFT screen) .
 
The picture below shows the original screen, OLED screen, TFT screen display effect.



 
At present, OLED flexible screen is the closest to the original screen in terms of quality and display effect.
 
From the appearance, there is no obvious difference between the original iPhone X OLED flexible screen. It is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish unless directly compared with the original screen.
 
Let's take a look at the OLED flexible screen and how to distinguish it from the original screen.
 
2. Comparison of iPhone X OLED flexible screen and original screen:
 
1) the cable on the screen
The cable of the original screen is soft and flexible, and there is a circuit on the cable, which looks very detailed;
The OLED flexible screen cable is smooth, relatively rigid, and does not feel rebound.



 
2) The difference between the side line, QR code and bottom on the screen
 The strip on the edge of the chip, the OLED flexible screen is thick and short, and the original one is thin and long.
 The original one has 3 metal points, while the OLED flexible screen does not.

 

3) The difference under the light is very obvious. The OLED flexible screen is grayish green, and the original one is purplish red. The authenticity of the original is mainly from this aspect. 

 

Through the test, the 3D Touch effect of the OLED flexible screen is still good, the touch is also very sensitive, there is no phenomenon of stuttering or jumping touch, the use of touch when playing games is no problem.

4) Compare screen brightness and true tone display
Adjust the screen brightness to moderate, the display effect of the two is not much different, both display is very delicate, but the OLED flexible screen is brighter than the original screen, when the brightness is adjusted to the lowest, the OLED flexible screen is darker. That is to say, the high imitation is brighter when it is bright, and darker when it is dark.

 

Third-party screens cannot use the "True Tone" function of iOS. You can also open the settings menu in iPhone X to test whether the true tone function can be turned on. If there is no response, 100% of the screens are non-original ( The right below is the original)
 
Now, the use effect of the OLED flexible screen is basically the same as that of the original screen, so it is enough to meet the needs of more than 90% of users to change the screen, and the price is more than 1,000 yuan cheaper than the original screen. For many users who need to replace the iPhone X screen, the OLED flexible screen is the best alternative to the original screen.
 
Finally, share with you a quick trick to judge whether it is the original iPhone X screen:
 
1. Whether there is the true tone function in the phone settings, if not, it must not be the original screen;
2. When the screen is off, the frame of the original screen is basically as black as the screen, and if the screen is severely white, it is a aftermarket LCD screen;
3. Comparing the bottom border of the screen, the aftermarket OLED will be slightly wider than the original screen.

 

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