DisplayMate: iPhone XS Max has the best display on the market

25 September 2018
Move over Galaxy Note9, the iPhone XS Max has the highest accuracy, brightness and lowest reflectivity.

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Anonymous, 25 Sep 2018Still someone like you here to making fun XD.. Apple design... moreOh sure do
I'm sorry that my knowledge has affected you so badly
Don't worry, I'll take my open-mindedness somewhere else
I didn't know that this place is only for narrow-minded fools :P

    Anonymous, 25 Sep 2018Drop it. Sony is dead. Only fanboys buy their products. ... moreI'm not here to talk about how good Sony phones are, so let's talk about it in a different place where it properly belongs.
    But if that's what you want, then your mighty Samsung and Apple might as well stop buying camera sensors from Sony since they're the worst, am I right??

    Samsung should stop using memory-stacked sensor because it's Sony's idea.

      Anonymous, 25 Sep 2018I doubt apple engineers know how to configure the pentile m... moreThey do. They can't be engineers without having such knowledge on such simple things like this.

        Anonymous, 25 Sep 2018How much do they get paid just to get their business and re... moreEnough for them to continue their business for the next 5 years??
        Samsung and Apple are almost trillion dollar companies, and they pay DisplayMate a lot of dollars for using their own name to spread false claims to consumers.

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          • Slayer
          • nFL
          • 25 Sep 2018

          I don't think so....it suffers from blue shift which Google got slammed for last year...

          Painfully Honest Tech, thanks for calling out iFruit on this issue.....
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOeFOgFgAEI

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            Anonymous, 25 Sep 2018I think the 'best smartphone display' award is more like a ... moreYou have been mistake
            30 deg. shift: 3.9 vs 2.6 (XS Max wins) is wrong
            It should be
            White Point Color Shift @ 30 deg. : 2.6 vs 1.3 (Note 9 wins)
            Largest Color Shift for R,G,B @ 30 deg. : 6.2 vs 3.9 (Note 9 wins)
            Color Shifts for Color Mixtures @ 30 deg. : 1.9 vs 1.8 (Note 9 wins)

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              • Smartphones Fan
              • m5M
              • 25 Sep 2018

              Ar u so sure guys it has best screen ? I DON'T think so ! watch THIS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOeFOgFgAEI

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                • Anonymous
                • IxR
                • 25 Sep 2018

                Do not believe what DisplayMate says. I have seen several reviews and the display on the iPhone XS Max looks dull and washed out. Painfully Honest Tech

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                  • Zenaldo
                  • JTi
                  • 25 Sep 2018

                  1-) The Galaxy Note9 delivers uniformly consistent all around Top Tier Display Performance and receives All Green (Very Good to Excellent) Ratings in All of the DisplayMate Lab Test and Measurement Categories.
                  2-) The iPhone XS Max delivers uniformly consistent all around Top Tier display performance and receives All Green (Very Good to Excellent) Ratings in all but 2 of the DisplayMate Lab Test and Measurement Categories: Yellow (Good) in Brightness Variation with Average Picture Level (15%) that applies to many OLED displays, and Yellow (Good) in the Largest Color Shift at 30 degrees Viewing Angle (6.2 JNCD).

                  All the rest is fake news and BS. Brigthness peak level is NOT equal to screen quality AT ALL.

                    Color accurate my a$$. An OLED screen will never be Color accurate and with the note 9 you can calibrate the screen to your liking which is not the case for the iphone. DisplayMate who?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 3x2
                      • 25 Sep 2018

                      I think the 'best smartphone display' award is more like a category. They grade displays and they both achieved A+.

                      The iPhone XS Max display only beats the Note 9 display in 3 categories. The rest, Note 9 wins.

                      Here are the key figures. N9 vs. XS Max.

                      PPI: 516 vs 458 (Note 9 wins)
                      Pixels: 4.3m vs 3.3m (Note 9 wins)
                      Avg. reflections: 4.4 vs 4.7 (Note 9 wins)
                      Mirror reflections: 5.6 vs 5.7 (Note 9 wins)
                      Maximum possible brightness: 825-1050 vs 769 (Note 9 wins)
                      Lowest brightness is a tie (2 vs 2)
                      Dynamic brightness: 2% vs 15% (Note 9 wins)
                      Contrast rating: 84-236 vs 139-163 (Note 9 wins)
                      Colour accuracy: 0.5 vs 0.8 (Note 9 wins)
                      Colour shift: 0.7 vs 0.3 (XS Max wins)
                      30 deg. loss: 27% vs 25% (XS Max wins)
                      30 deg. shift: 3.9 vs 2.6 (XS Max wins)
                      Power draw: 1.1w vs 2.2w (Note 9 wins)

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 6p$
                        • 25 Sep 2018

                        Shanti Dope, 25 Sep 2018Not Samsung or Apple, so it's already out of their coverage... moreXz3 can't even beat xiaomi or huawei displays. Sony screens are the worst in color accuracy.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 3x2
                          • 25 Sep 2018

                          This is actually wrong.

                          Note 9 has a brighter screen, and DisplayMate even confirm this themselves. The only reason they've discounted it is because you have to enable the high brightness mode manually.

                          They're instead compared maximum auto with maximum auto.

                          In essence Apple has just left it always-enabled.

                          Also, on DisplayMate the JNCD is a 'smaller is better' scale, yet, Note 9 hits 0.5, whilst XS Max is 0.9. Yet somehow this is listed as 'highest'.

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                            • Zenaldo
                            • JTi
                            • 25 Sep 2018

                            1-) The Galaxy Note9 delivers uniformly consistent all around Top Tier Display Performance and receives All Green (Very Good to Excellent) Ratings in All of the DisplayMate Lab Test and Measurement Categories.
                            2-) The iPhone XS Max delivers uniformly consistent all around Top Tier display performance and receives All Green (Very Good to Excellent) Ratings in all but 2 of the DisplayMate Lab Test and Measurement Categories: Yellow (Good) in Brightness Variation with Average Picture Level (15%) that applies to many OLED displays, and Yellow (Good) in the Largest Color Shift at 30 degrees Viewing Angle (6.2 JNCD).

                            All the rest is fake news and BS. Brigthness peak level is NOT equal to screen quality AT ALL.

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                              • AnonD-632062
                              • 3YY
                              • 25 Sep 2018

                              Great. So, Samsung's AMOLED always makes the best display for screens.

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                                • PEq
                                • 25 Sep 2018

                                Anonymous, 25 Sep 2018Lol, being PUMMELED by your worst enemy ought not to feel a... moreNote9
                                Best camera
                                Best battery (XEETECHCARE)
                                Same grade display as latest iPhone..
                                Richest software

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                                  • PEq
                                  • 25 Sep 2018

                                  Shanti Dope, 25 Sep 2018It always depends on how each manufacturer utilizes the raw... moreStill someone like you here to making fun XD.. Apple design display hardware and Samsung makes it!! I wish I can use emoji here.. Xd

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • ak@
                                    • 25 Sep 2018

                                    DisplayMate = DXO Mark
                                    Paid by companies with promoting new products...
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                                    Btw:DXOmark didnt say a thing about Iphone XS.. Guess it cant beat P20 Pro. THATS WHY Apple didnt want to pay them hahahah

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                                      • shawman
                                      • jGF
                                      • 25 Sep 2018

                                      Why do people say its not samsung. Apple is trying to add LG as 2nd supplier but as of now its all samsung.

                                      https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/9/14/17860688/apple-iphone-xs-max-lg-oled-display-samsung

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                                        Anonymous, 25 Sep 2018Lol, being PUMMELED by your worst enemy ought not to feel a... moreO don't think that iPhone's have best cameras. HUAWEI and SAMSUNG have better i think.

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