iPhone X Has the 'Most Innovative and High Performance' Smartphone Display Ever Tested (macrumors.com)

The display in the iPhone X is produced by Samsung and improved by Apple, says screen technology analysis firm DisplayMate. The company has released a display shoot-out for the iPhone X, praising Apple's technology in areas like the higher resolution OLED screen, automatic color management, viewing angle performance, and more. Mac Rumors reports: According to DisplayMate, the iPhone X has the "most innovative and high performance" smartphone display it has ever tested. DisplayMate also congratulated Samsung Display for "developing and manufacturing the outstanding OLED display hardware in the iPhone X." iPhone X matched or set new smartphone display records in the following categories: highest absolute color accuracy, highest full screen brightness for OLED smartphones, highest full screen contrast rating in ambient light, and highest contrast ratio. It also had the lowest screen reflectance and smallest brightness variation with a viewing angle. The iPhone X's 5.8-inch OLED display includes a taller height to width aspect ratio of 19.5:9, 22 percent larger than the 16:9 aspect ratio on previous iPhone models (and most other smartphones). Because of this DisplayMate noted that the iPhone X also has a new 2.5K higher resolution with 2436x1125 pixels and 458 pixels per inch. The iPhone X's display resolution provides "significantly higher image sharpness" than can be analyzed by a person with normal 20/20 vision at a 12-inch viewing distance. DisplayMate said this means that it's now "absolutely pointless" to increase the display resolution and pixels per inch of the iPhone any further, since there would be "no visual benefit" for users.

Comments

Re:higher resolution

[imgod2u]

Depends on your usage scenario.

I got the Daydream from Google and tried using it with my GS7. The resolution needs to increase at least 4x for it to be anywhere near realistic.

For using it as just a smartphone, I absolutely agree we've reached Peak Pixel.

Re:"Absolutely pointless" to increase resolution?

[rat_herder]

What about 12" ? What studies proved that what is false? substantiate this gibberish or don't bother commenting.

Re: My palm pilot

[jeremyp]

Apple can't compete against a broad and open market.

In the Smartphone market, two players make more than 100% of the profit (meaning all the rest together make a collective loss). One of those is Apple and it makes the most profit out of smartphones. Sounds to me like it is competing very well.