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by Macha 722 days ago
Note for anyone confused, this is about AMOLED displays commonly used in phones and some OLED laptops from a few years ago.

W-OLED and QD-OLED have unconventional layouts compared to LCDs but every pixel has the complete set of sub pixels (RGB for QD-OLED, RGBW for W-OLED) so it looks more like this:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Just mentioning as while AMOLED phones being the majority of OLED displays seems plausible to me, it's likely not what people in this thread are picturing when they see OLED.