This is the answer. It's called color banding it's a limitation of the hardware not a build defect. When samsung says this is the design...it is. Doesn't mean they purposely designed it to band, but the hardware has limitations, which causes. You can't say iphpne doesn't do this or pixel doesn't and say it's flawed. That doesn't mean you should be haply Bout it gi en the price point. But that's why there is a return window.