DisplayMate, which routinely performs thorough
testing of display quality on a variety of electronics,
has released its iPhone 6 Display Technology Shoot-
Out, taking a look at the performance of Apple's latest
handsets using new "Retina HD" technology. While
DisplayMate's Ray Soneira has not shied away from
criticizing Apple's displays on some recent devices,
he found the iPhone 6 Plus to have the "best
performing Smartphone LCD display that we have ever
tested" while the iPhone 6 also scored well in testing.
While the "best ever" designation includes the caveat
of applying to LED displays and DisplayMate
continues to rate the OLED display from the Samsung
Galaxy Note 4 as the best overall smartphone display,
the gains seen in the iPhone 6 and particularly the
iPhone 6 Plus are impressive.
Based on our extensive Lab tests and
measurements, the iPhone 6 Plus is the Best
performing Smartphone LCD display that we
have ever tested. It delivers uniformly
consistent all around Top Tier display
performance. The iPhone 6 Plus is only the
second Smartphone display (LCD or OLED) to
ever get all Green (Very Good to Excellent)
Ratings in all test and measurement categories
(except for Brightness variation with Viewing
Angle, which is the case for all LCDs) since we
started the Display Technology Shoot-Out
article series in 2006, an impressive
achievement for a display. The iPhone 6 Plus
has raised the bar for top LCD display
performance up by a notch.
In particular, the iPhone 6 Plus display sets new
records among LCD displays for peak brightness, low
reflectance, and several measures of contrast and
accuracy.
DisplayMate finds the iPhone 6 display to have many
of the same strong areas of performance as in the
iPhone 6 Plus, but the lower resolution and pixel
density hold the smaller model back somewhat.
Most rescaled images look noticeably better on
the iPhone 6 Plus with 2.1 Mega Pixels
compared to just 1.0 Mega Pixels on the iPhone
6. In addition, even at the native display
resolution, fine text and graphics look better on
the iPhone 6 Plus if you look carefully and
closely at the screen (because you may want to
or need to).
The display on the iPhone 6 is none-the-less
still a Very Good display, and most buyers will
be happy with its performance, but it’s
somewhat disappointing that Apple went for
satisfactory as opposed to the best.
DisplayMate's report includes a variety of charts and
tables comparing the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to the
iPhone 5/5s that are worth a look, as well as some
discussion of how LCDs such as those found in the
latest iPhones compares with OLEDs favored by
Samsung.
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