The screen most definitely does not suck. It's just not perfect.

Also, I pulled up the Sunset on Mars NASA photograph (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/117989main_image_feature_347_ys_full.jpg) in the browser and it had zero banding. When I saved it and opened it in the gallery app it had banding when displayed. Not sure what's up with that.

And just to round you out so that you hate everything, here's a cute puppy picture.