Have you ever been being confused by different qualities of LCD assemblies and worrying about purchasing wrongly? Don’t panic, I will instruct you to distinguish them by several methods.

There are six kinds of different qualities for Mobile Phone LCD Screens, Touch Screen Digitizers and other Cell Phone Parts which are OEM NEW, OEM USED, OEM REFURB, AAA GRADE, AA GRADE and A GRADE. Here we would like to emphatically introduce the quality classification for iPhone LCDs. This post should walk you through the ways of how to tell the differences.

MULTI-DIMENSION DISTINCTION
– The glass lens comes with a colored ring.
– No excessive glue on LCD flex cable and bezel frame.

1. OEM NEW

2. OEM USED

– Original but used already, torn down from used devices.
– There are a few scratches on bezel frame.

3. OEM REFURBISHED

– Compatible glass lens and no colored ring.
– No excessive glue on LCD flex cable but bezel frame does.
– Glass lens and bezel frame assembled by 3rd-Party factory.
– Refurbished from original used LCD assembly.

4. AAA GRADE

– Compatible glass lens and no colored ring.
– No excessive glue on LCD flex cable but bezel frame does.
– Glass lens and bezel frame assembled by 3rd-Party factory.

5.AA GRADE

– Compatible glass lens and no colored ring.
– Original LCD but compatible LCD flex.
– There is excessive glue on LCD flex cable and bezel frame.
– Glass lens, bezel frame and LCD flex assembled by 3rd-Party factory.

6.A GRADE

– All parts apply compatible materials, and assembled by
China LCD vendor.
– Compared with the above-mentioned LCDs which use In-Cell structure, this A grade LCD uses G+G/G+F technology.

COLOR DIFFERENCE
The display effects of sample LCDs here are for reference, they may vary with different LCD batches and vendors.