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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.
fanboiz idiot - "the video driver plays a much more important part"... It's important, not necessarily much more tard. Go hook that much more important video driver to your lcd of the 90s that could change state about once per second in the cold.
Up until about 8 years ago my job was to get video drivers and displays working well together with various baseband chips. Did that for 4 years for a major phone maker. I kinda think I know what I'm talking about.
The only people making it an Apple vs. Samsung competition are the Apple advocates. For everybody else, the smartphone business is a whole bunch of suppliers, and weird Apple off in their own headgame.
It's the same deal as the historical PC clone era. If you hung out in the Apple 'scene' you carried on about "Mac vs. IBM". For everybody else, it was a matter of chosing a system from almost any other PC maker running DOS and/or Windows. Again, Apple off being weird off in their own corner.
Part of the cult-marketing at Apple seems to involve choosing an over-the-top expensive brand to pusture against. In the PC clone era, IBM made obscenely expensive boxes- a 'real' PC/XT or AT cost thousands- we all bought beige box clones usually at half the cost. So for Apple fans* it was always 'Mac vs. IBM' even years after IBM has for the most part left the PC market.
Apple can't compete against a broad and open market. They always narrow the comparison to themselves and the most expensive choice 'The Rest of Us' could choose.
[*One of the ways to identify the really old and really weird Apple enthusiasts is if they still call non-Mac hardware 'IBM'. You're seeing one of the deep cult members. The people who used to rant and rave about 'resource forks' in the filesystem. I remember Macheads who would ridicule ethernet and call TCP/IP dead old technology. I remember Mac people back in the mid 90's who thought that Linux/Unix was dead technology because it wasn't Apples. The weird arcanery of the Apple cult isn't anything new. ]
Lots of asses in your comment. Out of respect for women, could you use "cunt" once in a while so it's clear that you're not only referring to privileged males?
lucm, indeed.