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My biggest beef with AMOLED displays is that they require more power. True, at all black they consume less, but in normal use it's more compared to LCDs. I just got a Nokia Lumia 800 and I'm down to one day of battery instead of two with the iPhone 4. The same issue was present with my previous Nexus One. Displaymate did a test to quantify this: http://displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_1.htm

Also when displaying text you are more likely to notice the pentile pattern which makes the text unclear at small sizes. Granted, it may not be a problem at 316 ppi of the Nexus, but it's noticeable at 252 ppi of the Lumia 800



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