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iPhone 14 Pro Max receives DisplayMate’s award for Best Smartphone Display

Jed John Ikoba — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:20:48 +0000

The iPhone 14 Pro Max is the latest Apple flagship released a few weeks ago. The smartphone now sits atop the rankings of the DisplayMate smartphone display. It has taken the top position from the iPhone 13 Pro Max as the smartphone with the best display.

The iPhone 14 Pro Max obtained an overall A+ rating in tests, underscoring the tremendous display of the Apple 2022 flagship. The iPhone 14 Pro Max has a peak brightness of 2,300 nits and an infinite contrast ratio. Although Apple specifies a peak brightness rating of 2,000 nits for the iPhone 14 Pro Max, the tests revealed 2,300 nits giving it the lowest screen reflectance recorded by DisplayMate (4.5%).

The tests also revealed the highest contrast rating in ambient light. There are a few components of the tests that resulted in near-perfect scores. These components include color accuracy on white, absolute color accuracy, image contrast accuracy, intensity scale, and peak luminance.

The iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max models have displays produced by Samsung hence the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra may also have a stellar DisplayMate performance or even outshine the iPhone 14 Pro Max. Nonetheless, the Apple flagship continues to garner awards and plaudits for its innovative features.

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Redmi Note 11T Pro Plus is the first LCD smartphone to receive A+ rating from DisplayMate

Anurag — Fri, 20 May 2022 10:40:54 +0000

Xiaomi exec shared on the Chinese micro-blogging website Weibo that Redmi Note 11T Pro+ has achieved an A+ certification from DisplayMate. It is the first LCD phone to receive this authoritative screen certification.

Lu Weibing, Partner at Xiaomi Group, President of Xiaomi China and International, and General Manager of the Redmi brand took to Weibo to announce that Redmi Note 11T Pro Plus has passed DisplayMate A+ screen certification and it is in fact the first LCD smartphone to do so. Weibing also revealed that Redmi Note 11T Pro Plus has also broken 14 other display records.

For the unversed, DisplayMate tests and evaluates various types of displays to determine what makes a display good or bad. Getting an A+ rating from DisplayMate is considered a big deal in the smartphone industry.

According to Lu Weibing, the smartphone features a 6.6-inch customized LCD panel with a 144Hz refresh rate. It has a customized 20.5:9 screen ratio that offers immersive and crisp picture quality. The display panel of the smartphone also has full DC dimming meaning it can replace quick flashes on your display with constant illumination.

In addition to that, the display also offers eye protection with the help of an anti-blue light filter. The LCD on Note 11T Pro + is highly adjustable and comes with Ambient color temperature sensing along with Dolby Vision certification.

As per Weibing, the smartphone will take the LCD display to a new level and will “revive the LCD glory”. The upcoming device has been nicknamed “little performance King Kong” which shows that folks at Xiaomi are really confident about the smartphone.

Other notable features of the smartphone are Dimensity 8100 processor, 5000mAh battery, and 120W fast charging. The device is expected to have 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage which might go up all the way to 512GB. In terms of software, the device will run MIUI 13 based on Android 12 out of the box.

Xiaomi 12 gets DisplayMate A+ certificate and sets 15 new records

Jeet — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:00:56 +0000

After several weeks of leaks and rumors, Xiaomi has confirmed that the company will be launching its next-generation Xiaomi 12 and 12 Pro flagship smartphones on 28th December in its home market China.

Today, Lei Jun, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xiaomi, has shared a teaser poster on his Weibo account which reveals that the display of the upcoming Xiaomi 12 has been certified with A+ ratings by DisplayMate.

Further, he adds that the smartphone has also created 15 new screen-related records for DisplayMate but more details about that remain unknown.

Lei Jun has revealed that the Xiaomi 12 uses a high-precision AMOLED display which takes into account delicate display and endurance experience, supports 16,000-level screen brightness adjustment, and has a more robust Corning Gorilla Glass Victus for protection.

Coming to the specifications, both the upcoming smartphones are expected to come powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset. Recently, in a leaked benchmark test by Geekbench, the Pro variant of flagship scored 1246 in the single-core tests and 3903 in the multi-core tests.

The smartphones are expected to come pre-installed with the MIUI 13 custom user interface based on the Android 12 operating system, which is also set to go official along with the latest flagship smartphones on 28th December.

If the reports are to be believed, then Xiaomi will be launching more than two models in the Xiaomi 12 lineup but it remains to be seen if all the models go official next week or not.

Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max gets Best Smartphone Display Award from DisplayMate

Jeet — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:17:11 +0000

Apple recently launched its latest iPhone 13 series smartphones in several different markets globally. The phone has already become quite popular and the shipment dates have not been pushed to late October.

The reason for the popularity of the new iPhone models is the top-notch offering, not just for the performance but also the display panel. DisplayMate has now awarded the iPhone 13 Pro Mac as the “Bst Smartphone Display Award” with the highest-ever display performance grade of A+.

This time, the display panel of the iPhone 13 Pro series models features a new Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion, which basically means that it comes with support for variable refresh rates between 10Hz and 120Hz, depending on the type of content being displayed on the screen.

It also offers the highest ever brightness for smartphones with OLED panels, says the report from DisplayMate. The iPhone 13 Pro Max is said to have a peak brightness of 1,000 nits for typical content and 1,200 nits for HDR content. It also set records for the highest absolute color accuracy, highest contrast ratio, lowest screen reflectance, and more.

For the uninitiated, South Korean tech giant Samsung is exclusively supplying the LTPO OLED panels for the iPhone 13 Pro Max model so far. But if the reports are to be believed, then LG is also expected to start supplying LTPO OLED screens next year.

The usage of LTPO technology would result in a more power-efficient backplane, which is responsible for turning individual pixels on and off on the display, allowing for a 120Hz refresh rate without a significant impact on battery life.

Redmi K40 series bags A+ rating from DisplayMate

Sudarshan Ravichandran — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:12:15 +0000

Redmi, the sub-brand of Xiaomi unveiled the Redmi K40 series in late February. The lineup includes three smartphones, namely Redmi K40, Redmi K40 Pro, and Redmi K40 Pro+. A month after these device’s launch, all three of them have been rated A+ by DisplayMate.

Redmi K40 Pro

DisplayMate calls itself “an industry standard for optimizing, calibrating, testing, evaluating, and comparing all types of displays” on its website. The company mostly reviews high-end devices.

However, the Redmi K40 series phones are not expensive. But they still come with a high-quality display. As a result, DisplayMate has rated their display A+.

According to the firm, the display on the Redmi K40 series comes close to ‘Text Book Perfect Calibration Accuracy and Performance’. Further, this panel is ‘Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect’.

As far as specs are concerned, the three smartphones in the Redmi K40 series flaunt an identical display. All three sport a 6.67-inch Samsung E4 Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2400 x 1080 pixels (FHD+).

Redmi K40 Pro

This panel not only supports up to 120Hz refresh rate but also 360Hz touch sampling rate. Further, this screen has a 1,300 nits peak brightness level, 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio, JNCD≈0.36, and ΔE≈0.35.

That said, although the Redmi K40 series is exclusive to China, the same phones will be available in global markets with a different name. The Redmi K40 is already official for international markets as POCO F3. But it will be called Mi 11X in India. Whereas, the Redmi K40 Pro+ will be sold as Mi 11X Pro in India and Mi 11i elsewhere. Lastly, the Redmi K40 Pro may not launch outside China.

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OPPO Find X3, Find X3 Pro Launched: Specs, Features, and Price

Balaji S — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:01:45 +0000

OPPO has revealed the OPPO Find X3, Find X3 Pro smartphones. These devices have a lot in common and differ only in few areas like chipset, storage. Both the devices have launched in China while the company has brought only the Find X3 Pro to global markets. Let’s take a look at their specifications, features, and pricing.

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OPPO Find X3, Find X3 Pro Pricing, Availability

OPPO has brought only two colors of the Find X3 Pro while the device and its non-Pro has more color options for China out of which the Cosmic Mocha is made of environmentally friendly plain leather. You can take a look at the storage, price, and colors variants below:

OPPO Find X3 (China)
- Colors– Condensed White, Mist Blue, Mirror Black, Cosmic Mocha
- Price
  - 8GB + 256GB – 4,499 yuan($694)
  - 12GB + 256GB- 4,999 yuan($771)
OPPO Find X3 Pro (China, Global)
- colors
  - Global- Gloss Black, Gloss Blue
  - China- Condensed White, Mist Blue, Mirror Black, Cosmic Mocha
- Price
  - Global- 12GB + 256GB – €1,149
  - China:
    - 8GB + 256GB – 5,499 yuan($848)
    - 12GB + 256GB – 5,999 yuan($925)
    - 16GB + 512GB – 6,999 yuan($1,079)

As for availability, the devices will go on sale officially at 10:00 AM Beijing time on March 19 in China. For Global markets, the ‘Pro’ variant will be available for purchase from March 30.

OPPO Find X3. Find X3 Pro – Design and Display

The OPPO Find X3 and Find X3 Pro has a very unique design language. They measure 163.6x74x8.26mm and weigh just 193g. Molded on a single piece of glass, the curves on the rear are created by heat-treating the glass and molding it against 2000+ design control points for over 40 hrs.

The Find X3 Pro comes in various colors as mentioned above. Out of this, the blue model is frosted to a precise 85% opacity to get the silky texture and remain free of fingerprint smudges. As for durability, the Find X3 Pro is IP68-rated for water and dust resistance.

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The Find X3 and Find X3 Pro feature a 6.7-inch 10-bit curved E4 OLED QHD+ screen and supports up to 1 billion colors on the display. It also maxes out at 800 nits overall brightness, has a JNCD~0.4, 3216×1440 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, covers sRGB/P3, and 100% of DCI-P3 color gamut, and has a contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1.

The display also supports O-Sync for low response time(5-10ms), Adaptive refresh rate (120-5Hz), Ultra-vision Engine to up the video resolution by 2x higher, HDR10+ SGS Eye care Display certified, Color Vision Enhancement to help people with CVD(Color vision deficiency).

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The display also gets an A+ rating from DisplayMate and sets up to 12 smartphone display performance records. To achieve the 10-bit colors in photo & video, OPPO has included a 10-bit full-path color engine which the company claims as an industry-first for an Android.

OPPO Find X3, Find X3 Pro- Performance, Camera

Under the hood, the Find X3 Pro has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 flagship 5G chipset. On the other hand, the Find X3 in China has the Snapdragon 870 chipset. Both are paired with UFS 3.1 storage but the non-Pro has LPDDR4x RAM in China and the ‘Pro’ variants have LPDDR5 RAM. The devices also have support for Dual-SIM dual-mode(SA/NSA) 5G network connectivity (up to 13 bands).

For cameras, the OPPO Find X3 series features a quad-camera setup on the back. Here, OPPO has used two 50MP sensors co-developed with Sony. That is, this 50MP camera sensor is a 1/1.56-inch type and has features like 1 billion color capture, Sony’s DOL-HDR, and All-Pixel Omni-direction PDAF.

Rear camera

50MP Sony IMX766 f/1.8 wide-angle sensor, OIS
50MP Sony IMX766 f/2.2 ultra-wide, 110-degree FOV
3MP micro f/3.0 lens, 60x zoom, FHD video recording,
13MP f/2.4 Telephoto camera, 5x Hybrid and 20x Digital zoom

Front Camera

32MP f/2.4 selfie shooter, 81-degree FOV, 5P lens, (AF & OIS not supported)

OPPO has included camera features like AI-scene enhancement, AI Palettes, 10-bit RAW+ image support, Cinematic Mode for shooting 4K 10-bit video in Log and HDR format with BT.2020 color gamut, 10-bit color depth, and HLG gamma curve support.

OPPO Find X3 series – Other Features

Other features include a 4,500mAh battery with 65W SuperVOOC charge and 30W AirVOOC Flash Charge and 10W reverse wireless charging support, in-display fingerprint and face unlock, Wi-Fi 6, 2×2 MIMO and 8 spatial sounding MU-MIMO, Bluetooth 5.2, USB-C port, NFC, GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, QZSS, BeiDou for navigation.

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The Find X3 series also comes with Dolby Atmos audio support, OPPO Relax 2.0, Beauty of Science co-developed Wallpapers, Assistant & Game Focus modes(Global, China), and ColorOS 11.2 based on Android 11.

The devices have some features in China like it can be used as Ideal ONE’s Bluetooth car keys(China), control Midea Home appliances, improved Xiaobu assistant and translation built-in, Fingerprint quick-start options.

Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max sets 11 display performance records: DisplayMate

Jeet — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:40:24 +0000

Apple recently launched its all-new iPhone 12 models, which are now available for purchase. The high-end model launched by the company is the iPhone 12 Pro Max and it apparently has the best smartphone display so far.

DisplayMate has published its review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max display and has ranked it with the highest-ever Display Performance Grade of A+. It has also bestowed it with the “Best Smartphone Display” award.

Apart from that, what’s impressive is that the smartphone managed to hit a milestone by having 11 instances of breaking a record or matching an existing one. For comparison, the iPhone 11 Pro launched last year matched or set nine performance records for the screen.

Here is a list of smartphone display record set by the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Highest: Absolute Color Accuracy (0.9 JNCD) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
Highest: Image Contrast Accuracy and Intensity Scale Accuracy (2.19 Gamma) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
Smallest: Shift in Color Accuracy and Intensity Scale with the Image Content APL (0.2 JNCD) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
Smallest: Shift in Image Contrast and Intensity Scale with the Image Content APL (0.00 Gamma) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
Smallest: Change in Peak Luminance with the Image Content Average Picture Level APL (1 percent) – Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
Highest: Full-Screen Brightness for OLED Smartphones (825 nits for 100% APL).
Highest: Full-Screen Contrast Rating in Ambient Light (172 at 100% APL).
Highest: Contrast Ratio (Infinite).
Lowest: Screen Reflectance (4.8 percent).
Smallest: Brightness Variation with Viewing Angle (27% at 30 degrees).
Highest: Visible Screen Resolution 2.8K (2778×1284) – 4K Does Not appear visually sharper on a Smartphone.

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However, there’s one aspect where the display of the iPhone 12 Pro Max lacks behind the competition is the refresh rate. While other companies have adopted a 90Hz, 120Hz, and even 144Hz refresh rate, this phone comes with the standard 60Hz refresh rate.

On this matter, DisplayMate says that it should be fine for most applications because of the very fast Response Time of the OLED display, and the very fast CPU and GPU processors on the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

To summarise the phone’s display specifications, the iPhone 12 Pro Max features a 6.7-inch Super Retina XDR screen that offers 2778 x 1284 pixels screen resolution, 1200 nits peak brightness, 458ppi pixel density, and 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio.

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OnePlus 8 series gets DisplayMate’s A+ rating; breaks previous records

Jeet — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 05:27:47 +0000

The OnePlus 8 series of flagship smartphones is scheduled to go official in a couple of weeks. In a typical OnePlus fashion, the company has already revealed some of the key features of the upcoming device.

Now, ahead of the phone’s launch, DisplayMate has announced that the OnePlus 8 series has managed to earn the highest A+ rating as well as the Best Smartphone Display Award. Last year, the OnePlus 7 Pro also received A+ ratings from DisplayMate and the company is now aiming to outdo itself.

The report adds that the display on the upcoming lineup “sets or matches more than 10 Smartphone Display Performance Records in virtually all key categories for the best displays on the market, including color accuracy, image contrast, display brightness, and screen reflection, with 4 categories marked Visually Indistinguishable from Perfect.”

OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has already confirmed that the OnePlus 8 series will come with AMOLED display panels from Samsung. It will offer 120Hz refresh rate, and will also come with motion estimate and motion compensation (MEMC) technology for smooth video playback and 10-bit color gamut.

A report from PCMag claims that OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro will have two main user-selectable color modes — Vivid and Natural. While Vivid mode has a wider color gamut and high image contrast, the Natural mode accurately represents either the digital cinema DCI-P3 color space or the older sRGB color space.

The OnePlus 8 Pro has a brighter display than the Galaxy S20 Ultra at 50 percent average picture level (APL) and the max brightness level of the display can reach 1009 nits at 50 percent APL, which is slightly higher than the Galaxy S20 Ultra’s 995 nits.

While the company has not confirmed all the specifications, leak indicates that the OnePlus 8 Pro will feature a 6.78-inch QHD+ Super AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate, Snapdragon 865 SoC, 12GB RAM, 4,510mAh battery, Warp Charge 30T support along with wireless charging and reverse wireless charging. To know for sure, we’ll have to wait for the official launch event on 14th April.

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iPhone X Now Holds The Title Of Having The Best Smartphone Display, Ahead of Galaxy Note 8

Jed John Ikoba — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 05:40:41 +0000

DisplayMate has crowned the new Apple iPhone X as having the best display ever made for a smartphone. This effectively knocks off the Galaxy Note 8 which was announced about two months ago with that title. Apart from the new title, the iPhone X also got an A+ grade for the build quality.

The iPhone X packs an OLED display that was built by Samsung Displays and they get the credit for the awesome A+ grade but unfortunately, this isn’t on a Samsung model. DisplayMate’s extensive analysis of the iPhone X display shows that it sets OLED display record for having the highest full-screen brightness (634 nits), lowest screen resistance of 4.5%, the smallest brightness variations from different viewing angles and several others. The iPhone X perhaps trumps the Galaxy Note 8 as a result of Apple’s impressive precision colour calibration on the flagship iPhone X.

The iPhone X keeps u with the trend of 2017 by packing a 5.8-inch OLED display with a taller height-to-width aspect ratio of 19.5:9 and a bezel-less display. The display has 2.5K Higher Resolution Full HD+ with a resolution power of 1125 x 2436 pixels with a pixel density of 458 ppi.