Tablet and Smartphone Displays Under Bright Ambient Lighting Shoot-Out

Master Photo Grid for Viewing on High Resolution Displays

Apple iPad 2 – Amazon Kindle Fire – Motorola Xoom – Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

Apple iPhone 4 – HTC Desire – Motorola Droid X – Samsung Galaxy S

Dr. Raymond M. Soneira

President, DisplayMate Technologies Corporation

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Article Links: Tablet Displays Under Bright Ambient Lighting Shoot-Out

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Master Photo Grid Introduction

This Master Photo Grid has all of the Screen Shots for the Tablet Displays Under Bright Ambient Lighting Shoot-Out and Smartphone Displays Under Bright Ambient Lighting Shoot-Out articles in a compact format. On displays with at least 1920 pixel width you’ll be able to see all of the lux levels at once without horizontal scrolling. Better yet, the iPad, iPhone, and most Android Tablets and Smartphones will display all (or almost all) of the 64 screen shots on a single page in Portrait mode – you might need to pinch in the image to see a single screen view. This is the best way to see the large scale trends and differences in how the Tablet and Smartphone displays degrade as the ambient lighting increases outdoors.

Results Highlights

The Master Photo Grid only includes the Screen Shots. You can read the Results Highlights in Tablets or the Results Highlights in Smartphones. The visual results follow the Lab based Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light for Tablets and the Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light for Smartphones.

For background, in-depth explanations and analysis be sure to read the complete original articles:

Tablet Article: Tablet Displays Under Bright Ambient Lighting Shoot-Out

Smartphone Article: Smartphone Displays Under Bright Ambient Lighting Shoot-Out

	0 lux Absolute Darkness	300 lux Moderate Indoor Lighting	1,000 lux Bright Indoor Lighting	2,000 lux Outdoor Lighting in Heavy Shade	5,000 lux Moderate Overcast Sky or Direct Sunlight in Heavy Shade	10,000 lux Moderate Outdoor Daylight	20,000 lux Full Daylight Not Direct Sunlight	40,000 lux Indirect Outdoor Sunlight
Apple iPad 2
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Amazon Kindle Fire
Motorola Xoom
	0 lux	300 lux	1,000 lux	2,000 lux	5,000 lux	10,000 lux	20,000 lux	40,000 lux
Apple iPhone 4
Samsung Galaxy S
HTC Desire
Motorola Droid X
	0 lux Absolute Darkness	300 lux Moderate Indoor Lighting	1,000 lux Bright Indoor Lighting	2,000 lux Outdoor Lighting in Heavy Shade	5,000 lux Moderate Overcast Sky or Direct Sunlight in Heavy Shade	10,000 lux Moderate Outdoor Daylight	20,000 lux Full Daylight Not Direct Sunlight	40,000 lux Indirect Outdoor Sunlight

About the Author

Dr. Raymond Soneira is President of DisplayMate Technologies Corporation of Amherst, New Hampshire, which produces video calibration, evaluation, and diagnostic products for consumers, technicians, and manufacturers. See www.displaymate.com. He is a research scientist with a career that spans physics, computer science, and television system design. Dr. Soneira obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University, spent 5 years as a Long-Term Member of the world famous Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, another 5 years as a Principal Investigator in the Computer Systems Research Laboratory at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and has also designed, tested, and installed color television broadcast equipment for the CBS Television Network Engineering and Development Department. He has authored over 35 research articles in scientific journals in physics and computer science, including Scientific American. If you have any comments or questions about the article, you can contact him at dtso.info@displaymate.com.

About DisplayMate Technologies

DisplayMate Technologies specializes in proprietary sophisticated scientific display calibration and mathematical display optimization to deliver unsurpassed objective performance, picture quality and accuracy for all types of displays including video and computer monitors, projectors, HDTVs, mobile displays such as smartphones and tablets, and all display technologies including LCD, OLED, 3D, LED, LCoS, Plasma, DLP and CRT. This article is a lite version of our intensive scientific analysis of Tablet and Smartphone mobile displays – before the benefits of our advanced mathematical DisplayMate Display Optimization Technology, which can correct or improve many of the display deficiencies. We offer DisplayMate display calibration software for consumers and advanced DisplayMate display diagnostic and calibration software for technicians and test labs.

For manufacturers we offer Consulting Services that include advanced Lab testing and evaluations, confidential Shoot-Outs with competing products, calibration and optimization for displays, cameras and their User Interface, plus on-site and factory visits. See our world renown Display Technology Shoot-Out public article series for an introduction and preview. DisplayMate’s advanced scientific optimizations can make lower cost panels look as good or better than more expensive higher performance displays. For more information on our technology see the Summary description of our Adaptive Variable Metric Display Optimizer AVDO. If you are a display or product manufacturer and want to turn your display into a spectacular one to surpass your competition then Contact DisplayMate Technologies to learn more.