Last year, the iPhone 13 Pro Max won the award for best screen on a smartphone, a source of pride for Apple and good publicity in the eyes of consumers for this high-end smartphone. Today, Apple is repeating the feat by winning the same prize, but for the iPhone 14 Pro Max.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max wins the award for best display
Every year the Display Technology Shoot-Out which is made up of a jury of experts and passionate to analyse meticulously the screens of the latest smartphones that have been marketed. Whether entry-level, mid-range or high-end models, no smartphone slips through the cracks.
Last year, the smartphone that offered the “best screen” was iPhone 13 Pro MaxApple had also been congratulated for the display quality of it, it met (according to the jury) all the criteria that an expert could look for.
For the 2022 edition of Display Technology Shoot-Outthe iPhone 14 Pro Max wins the A+ display performance ratinga price that is still highly envied by competing smartphone manufacturers.
According to DisplayMate, the iPhone 14 Pro Max can reach a maximum brightness of 2,300nits, more than twice as much as the iPhone 13 Pro Max. The tests even exceeded Apple’s recommendations as the company boasts a peak brightness of 2,000 nits. During testing, HDR brightness peaked at 1,590 nitswhich represents a 33% increase compared to the previous generation of iPhone.
In total, the iPhone 14 Pro Max got 15 awardswhich is an increase from the 13 awards the iPhone 13 Pro Max received in 2021. According to the DisplayMate website, Apple has been focused on improving the absolute picture quality and absolute color accuracy of the iPhone 13 Pro Max. ‘OLED via precise factory screen calibration, which is “visually indistinguishable from a flawless screen”.
Here are the prizes won
- Highest color accuracy of white
- Absolute highest color accuracy
- Smallest change in color accuracy with APL
- Smallest maximum color change with APL
- Highest Image Contrast Accuracy and Intensity Scale Accuracy
- The smallest shift in image contrast and intensity scale with APL
- The smallest change in maximum luminance with APL
- The highest full screen brightness for OLED smartphones
- Maximum screen brightness
- Highest contrast ratio
- Low screen reflectance
- Highest contrast ratio in ambient light
- Smallest variation in brightness with viewing angle
- Smallest color variation from white with viewing angle
- Highest viewable screen resolution
Here is the conclusion of the experts regarding the iPhone 14 Pro Max:
Based on our lab tests and measurements, the iPhone 14 Pro Max has a very impressive and excellent world-class smartphone display with near-perfect calibration accuracy and visually indistinguishable performance from perfection. Based on our lab tests and objective measurements, the iPhone 14 Pro Max received the DisplayMate Best Smartphone Display Award. It earned DisplayMate’s highest display performance rating of A+ and has set or equaled 15 smartphone display performance records, including 7 that are visually indistinguishable from perfect and listed above.
Of course, all the kudos go to Apple, but we shouldn’t forget either SamsungDisplay who is the main supplier of this screen. Even though Apple is working on the Areas for improvementSamsung Display brings all its know-how and expertise in screens for smartphones.
We can therefore compliment Apple, but also Samsung Display without whom this victory would probably not have been possible!