Overall performance was decent, with an average color gamut (108 percent),
very good color accuracy (0.08) and a solid brightness average (208 nits).
Though this laptop isn't marketed with a calibrated display for graphics professionals, it does have
very good color accuracy, with a Delta - E rating of 0.32 (closer to 0 is better).
The A8's display also offers
very good color accuracy.
Not exact matches
While the iPad Air 2 has an all around
Very Good Top Tier display, and most buyers will be happy with its performance, the displays on the Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Samsung Tablets that we have tested (see below) have
better display performance in Absolute
Color Accuracy, Brightness, Contrast Ratio, Viewing Angle, and Power Efficiency.
The images should show
very good color, image contrast, and gray scale
accuracy.
Although its White Point is (intentionally) slightly too Blue, the Absolute
Color Accuracy is mostly
Very Good except in the Blue to Magenta regions, which decrease its overall
Color Accuracy rating.
In our detailed Lab tests the measured Absolute
Color Accuracy for the for the iPad Air is 3.8 JNCD, which falls into our
Good (rather than
Very Good)
Color Accuracy rating.
Color Accuracy is especially important for professional imaging applications when you must be sure of the on - screen image
colors, when viewing photos from family and friends (because you often know exactly what they actually should look like), for some TV shows, movies, and sporting events with image content and
colors that you are familiar with, and also for viewing online merchandise, so you have a
very good idea of exactly what
colors you are buying and are less likely to return them.
The Apple iPad Air, which came in second after the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, remains a
Very Good Tablet display, however, the Surface Pro 3 is more accurately calibrated than the Apple iPad Air, with the
best Absolute
Color Accuracy that we have ever measured.
The
accuracy of the white point and
color and gray - scale tracking are all
very good, which means that the Red, Green and Blue primaries have been carefully calibrated and balanced.
The screen is
very bright and
very sharp, has excellent
color and gray scale
accuracy, and has
very good Contrast and readability under both dim and bright ambient light.
Absolute
color accuracy and image contrast fidelity are
very good (but somewhat below the Kindle Fire) and are discussed in detail below.
It has
very high brightness,
very low reflectance, excellent high ambient light performance, and excellent factory calibration with the
best Absolute
Color Accuracy and accurate image contrast.
Color Accuracy is especially important when viewing photos from family and friends (because you often know exactly what they actually should look like), for some TV shows, movies, and sporting events with image content and
colors that you are familiar with, and also for viewing online merchandise, so you have a
very good idea of exactly what
colors you are buying and are less likely to return them.
If absolute
color accuracy is not critical then the iPad Air 2 has a «
very good» all around medium size tablet display.
The new iPads have fairly accurate intensity scales with gammas fairly close to the 2.2 standard, however, they all have slightly bluish white points, with
color temperatures of 7,109 K to 7,355 K, which is still (marginally)
very good but reduces their overall
color accuracy somewhat because the white point also affects all of the low saturation
colors in the
color gamut.
The Kindle Fire has the
best overall
accuracy with an Average
Color Error of 3.0 JNCD, which is
Very Good.
«Most impressive of all is the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, which has leapfrogged into the
best performing Tablet display that we have ever tested, significantly out - performing the iPad Air in Brightness, Screen Reflectance, and high ambient light contrast, plus a first place finish in the
very challenging category of Absolute
Color Accuracy,» writes Soneira.
The Amazon tablet scored a «
very good» rating for the absolute
color accuracy, whereas the iPad Air got a «
good rating» and the Nexus 10 was «poor.»
Most impressive of all is the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, which has leapfrogged into the
best performing Tablet display that we have ever tested, significantly out - performing the iPad Air in Brightness, Screen Reflectance, and high ambient light contrast, plus a first place finish in the
very challenging category of Absolute
Color Accuracy.
Really, calling it «average» means that while it might not be great for professional photo editing where a wide
color gamut and great
accuracy are required, the display is still
very good for productivity work and watching video.
The iPhone X excels due to its record Absolute
Color Accuracy (1.0 JNCD), which is Visually Indistinguishable from Perfect, and is
very likely considerably
better than any mobile display, monitor, TV or UHD TV that you have.
If Absolute
Color Accuracy is not critical then the iPad Air 2 has a
Very Good all around medium size Tablet display.
The new iPads have fairly accurate Intensity Scales with Gammas fairly close to the 2.2 standard, however, they all have slightly bluish White Points, with
Color Temperatures of 7,109 K to 7,355 K, which is still (marginally)
Very Good but reduces their overall
Color Accuracy somewhat because the White Point also affects all of the low saturation
colors in the
Color Gamut.
Use the Basic screen mode for the
best color and image
accuracy for most current consumer content, which is especially important when viewing photos from family and friends (because you often know exactly what they actually should look like), for some TV shows, movies, and sporting events with image content and
colors that you are familiar with, and also for viewing online merchandise, so you have a
very good idea of exactly what
colors you are buying and are less likely to return them.
Color performance is
very good across the board, though it's clear Google has targeted «sharable» imagery over
accuracy.
However, the OnePlus covered 192 percent of the sRGB
color spectrum (100 percent is
very good) and notched a Delta - E rating of 2.9 (0 is perfect), which makes it a match for the Galaxy S7 Edge in both
color range (189 percent for Samsung's phone) and
accuracy (Delta - E of 2.9).
As a result, the Kindle Fire HDX «has leapfrogged into the
best performing Tablet display that we have ever tested, significantly out - performing the iPad Air in Brightness, Screen Reflectance, and high ambient light contrast, plus a first place finish in the
very challenging category of Absolute
Color Accuracy,» Soneria wrote.