Tomas Chlebek The director of DisplayMate, Raymond Soneira, in his latest analysis he focused on the display 9,7-inch iPad Pro. He concluded that this is by far the best mobile LCD display that DisplayMate has ever tested.
According to Soneira, the best feature of the smaller iPad Pro's display is the accuracy of color reproduction. He says about it that it is indistinguishable to the eye from perfect in this iPad and that the display shows the most accurate colors of any display (of any technology) they have ever measured. Two standard color gamuts (adequately visible spectrum of colors) help him to do this.
Most devices, including all of Apple's previous iOS devices, have only one color gamut. The smaller iPad Pro switches between the two depending on the content being displayed so that content with a lower color gamut doesn't have "overburned" colors.
Soneira further praises the tested iPad's display for its very low reflectivity, maximum achievable brightness, maximum contrast in strong ambient light and minimal color loss when viewing the display at an extreme angle. In all these categories, the 9,7-inch iPad Pro even breaks records. Its display is the least reflective of any mobile display (1,7 percent) and the brightest of any tablet (511 nits).
The display of the smaller iPad Pro is better compared to the display of the larger iPad Pro in all respects except the contrast ratio in the dark. Soneira notes that the 12,9-inch iPad Pro still has a great display, but the smaller iPad Pro is at the very top. Directly in the test, the 9,7-inch iPad Pro was compared to the iPad Air 2, whose display is also considered to be of high quality, but the iPad Pro far surpasses it.
The only category in which the tested iPad did not receive a Very High or Excellent rating was brightness drop when viewed from extreme angles. It was around fifty percent. This problem is typical for all LCD displays.
The Night Mode function was also tested (elimination of blue light emission) and True Tone (adjusting the white balance of the display according to the color of the surrounding lighting; see the animation above). In them, it was found that both functions have a significant effect on the colors of the display, but True Tone only approximates the actual color of the ambient lighting. However, Soneira mentioned that in practice the user's preferences have the greatest influence on the assessment of the effectiveness of both functions, and he would therefore appreciate the possibility to control the True Tone function manually.
In conclusion, Soneira writes that he hopes that a similar display will also make it to the iPhone 7, mainly the color gamut and the anti-reflective layer on the display. Both would have a positive effect on the readability of the display in the sun.
