
DisplayMate has recently released an analysis comparing displays used in the newly released iPad Air 2, iPhone 6 Plus, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Tab 2, Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX, and Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3. Although Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus and iPad Air 2 ranked high up in some of the categories, it was revealed that they were at the bottom overall. There were four categories in the analysis and they were Facial Skin Tone Colors, Entire Color Gamut, Organic Colors, and Blue Region from Cyan to Magenta Colors.
The four categories used were to find an overall score for color accuracy. Apple’s recently released iPhone 6 Plus and iPad Air 2 were pretty high up in the Organic Color and Skin Tone accuracy categories. However, the two fell to the bottom of the list when it came to overall accuracy for color. Ahead of Apple were both Samsung and Microsoft devices. According to DisplayMate:
Its seems likely that Apple has concentrated on the important Red to Green part of the Color Space, which includes both the Skin Tone and Organic Colors. On the other hand, both the iPhone 6 Plus and iPad Air 2 are in last place for the Full Gamut Color Accuracy. This is partly the result of an over saturated Blue primary that distorts almost the entire Blue Region, which accounts for about half of the half of the entire Color Space and increases the Average Color Error, and also partly due to the less accurate bluish White Point.
Source: DisplayMate
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