You've probably heard that the new iPad mini with Retina display has a significantly
smaller color gamut that the larger iPad Air, but how does it compete against rival tablets like the Google Nexus 7 and Amazon's new Kindle Fire HDX?
Another important issue was that Greens and Yellows were especially weak and under saturated, even much more than the iPad 2, which has a much
smaller Color Gamut but a more saturated Green primary.
After dismissing the smaller 7 inch tablets, Apple subsequently introduced in 2012 its own iPad mini, with a 7.9 - inch 1024 × 768 display with a (surprisingly) much
smaller Color Gamut and higher screen Reflectance than the existing models of the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7.
The main reason for providing
a smaller Color Gamut is to improve screen Brightness, Power Efficiency, and Battery Running Time.
Most of the existing LCD Tablets and Smartphones have
smaller Color Gamuts around 60 percent of the Standard Gamut, which produces somewhat subdued colors.
launched in October 2012 had a display similar to the older Apple iPad 2, with a resolution of 1366x768 pixels and
a small Color Gamut with just 57 % of the Standard Gamut needed for accurate color reproduction.
The Nexus 10 is not shown in the Figure because
its small color gamut would result in very large errors within the plot.
The iPhone 3GS has a horrible shallow curved Intensity Scale that washes its already low Contrast and poor Color Saturation from
its small Color Gamut.
The iPad mini actually has an excellent and accurate calibration considering
its small Color Gamut (below) because each unit receives individual display factory calibration.
Most of the previous generations of LCD Tablets and Smartphones had
smaller Color Gamuts around 60 percent of the Standard Gamut, which produces somewhat subdued colors.
They have much too
small a color Gamut.
The Nexus 10 is not shown in the Figure because
its small Color Gamut would result in very large errors within the plot.
Not exact matches
Color gamut: The iPad Mini has an «antiquated» small 62 percent Color G
gamut: The iPad Mini has an «antiquated»
small 62 percent
Color GamutGamut.
We measured a slightly large 107 percent
Color Gamut for the iPad Air 2 and a rather
small 62 percent
Color Gamut for the iPad mini 3, both almost identical with previous iPad models.
Originally spurned, then introduced (in haste) in 2012, the original iPad mini was a
smaller version of the older 2011 iPad 2 with a 1024x768 resolution display and a reduced 62 percent
Color Gamut, when the full size iPads already had a 2048x1536 Retina display with a 100 percent
Color Gamut.
On the other hand, for the iPad mini 3, the much
smaller 62 percent
Color Gamut resulted in a much higher error of 6.8 JNCD going up as high as 22.6 JNCD, which resulted in a Good to Poor Absolute
Color Accuracy rating.
The Surface RT has a
smaller 57 percent
Color Gamut, which is disappointing in an otherwise excellent set of display performance specifications.
While the Lumia's
Color Gamut is 25 percent
smaller than many multimedia Tablets, that only applies in the dark.
In order to deliver accurate image
colors, a display needs to closely match the standard
Color Gamut that was used for producing the content being viewed — not larger and not
smaller.
However, the 2012 Nexus 10 has a much
smaller 58 percent
color gamut, which is comparable to the older iPad 2, iPad mini, and Microsoft Surface RT..
For 2010, the original iPad had a leading edge 1024x768 display with 132 pixels - per - inch (ppi) and a
small - ish 62 percent
color gamut that had noticeably lower
color saturation.
However, the iPad mini Retina Display has a much
smaller 63 percent
Color Gamut, which is incredibly disappointing because it produces noticeably subdued image
colors.
The big differences in
Color Gamut between the Kindle Fire HDX 7 and Nexus 7 and the much
smaller 63 percent
Gamut in the iPad mini Retina Display were quite obvious and easy to see in the side - by - side Viewing Tests.
So it was a surprise and major disappointment for the iPad mini to arrive with an antiquated
smaller 62 percent
Color Gamut, especially considering that the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Google Nexus 7 both managed to deliver considerably larger 86 percent
Color Gamuts.
But shockingly, it still has the same
small 63 percent
Color Gamut as the original iPad mini and even older iPad 2.
So it was a surprise and a major disappointment for the iPad mini to arrive with an antiquated
smaller 62 percent
Color Gamut.
The iPad Mini has an «antiquated»
small 62 percent
Color Gamut.
The Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7 have
Color Gamuts much larger than the iPad 2 and somewhat
smaller than the new iPad.
However, the 2012 Nexus 10 has a much
smaller 58 percent
Color Gamut, which is comparable to the older iPad 2, iPad mini, and Microsoft Surface RT..
DisplayMate concludes that «the big differences in
Color Gamut between the Kindle Fire HDX 7 and Nexus 7 and the much
smaller 63 percent
Gamut in the iPad mini Retina Display were quite obvious and easy to see in the side - by - side Viewing Tests.»
The Pixel 2's 5 - inch screen isn't the sharpest, at 1920 x 1080 pixels, and it's much
smaller than the 5.8 - inch Galaxy S8, but it produced an excellent 148 percent of the sRGB
color gamut.
«Highest Absolute
Color Accuracy for any display for Both
Color Gamuts (1.35 JNCD), Lowest Screen Reflectance for any mobile display (1.7 percent), Highest Peak Brightness in a full size Tablet for any Picture Level (511 nits), Highest Contrast Rating in High Ambient light (301), and
Smallest Color variation with Viewing Angle (all under 2.0 JNCD).
The iPhone 7 has two standard
color gamuts, the new DCI - P3 Wide Color Gamut that is used in 4K UHD TVs and Digital Cinema, and also the traditional smaller sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut that is used for producing most existing consumer content for digital cameras, TVs, the internet, and computers, including photos, videos, and mo
color gamuts, the new DCI - P3 Wide
Color Gamut that is used in 4K UHD TVs and Digital Cinema, and also the traditional smaller sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut that is used for producing most existing consumer content for digital cameras, TVs, the internet, and computers, including photos, videos, and mo
Color Gamut that is used in 4K UHD TVs and Digital Cinema, and also the traditional
smaller sRGB / Rec.709
Color Gamut that is used for producing most existing consumer content for digital cameras, TVs, the internet, and computers, including photos, videos, and mo
Color Gamut that is used for producing most existing consumer content for digital cameras, TVs, the internet, and computers, including photos, videos, and movies.