Galaxy S II display reportedly has yellow spots

The Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II is having a magnificent debut on the smartphone scene, winning plenty of users for the Android and Samsung causes. Well it appears that not all is rosy with the Korean flagship as a watchful user has noticed an issue with that gorgeous 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display.

The problem reported by numerous forum users concerns the leftmost quarter of the lower half of the screen and is most visible at the lowest brightness settings.

Some even say, its not that those units are faulty, its like that on all Galaxy SII phones. Well, we rolled out our sleeves and went to check ours and report back. And indeed, upon a really, really close inspection, we noticed that the part of the display in question is slightly darker than the rest of the screen and has a slight yellow tint to it.

To make the effect more prominent in the photo on the left we have flipped the lower half of the screen so the darker and lighter parts are closer by. Its really the best we can do to demonstrate an effect that is pretty hard to see otherwise.

Now uneven backlighting is something that we are used to seeing on LCD screens, but we cannot quite explain how it appeared on the Galaxy S II. Granted the effect is pretty subtle and we did not notice it until told what to look for, but its there and it seems probable that all early units of the smartphone have it.

Last time we saw a similar problem it was with the iPhone 4 and it turned out to be a temporary effect caused by the glue used in assembly that disappeared by itself with time. We guess, it will not be the case here as quite a lot of time passed since those phones came out of the factory.