When the Galaxy S6 was announced, eyes widened as Samsung stated the 5.1-inch display has 2560×1440 resolution. That same resolution can be found on the Galaxy Note 4; however, this flagship device has a display that is more than 0.5in smaller. It is what allows the Galaxy S6 to have 577 pixels per inch. DisplayMate, who often conducts tests on mobile device displays, feels that the Galaxy S6 has the best display they have ever seen on a smartphone.
Everything from display resolution and screen brightness to dimming and power efficiency was applauded.
Display resolution:
The Galaxy S5 had a Full HD 1920×1080 pixel display with 2.1 Mega Pixels – state-of-the-art at that time. The Galaxy S6 provides a major resolution enhancement with a Quad HD 2560×1440 pixel display, the same as the 5.7 inch Galaxy Note 4 but now on a much smaller 5.1 inch screen size. That’s currently the highest resolution for Smartphones, with 3.7 Mega Pixels, almost double the number of pixels on an HDTV (and over 4 times the number of pixels on the iPhone 6). This provides lots of image detail – it can display four complete HD 1280×720 images at once. The display has Diamond Pixels (see below) and Sub-Pixel Rendering with 577 pixels per inch (ppi), the highest on any consumer display, providing significantly higher image sharpness than can be resolved with normal 20/20 Vision at the typical viewing distances of 10 inches or more for Smartphones, so the display appears perfectly sharp.
Screen brightness:
More importantly, on the Galaxy S6 the Maximum Brightness can go much higher when Automatic Brightness is turned On, so that users can’t permanently park the Manual Brightness slider to very high values, which would run down the battery quickly. High screen Brightness is only needed for High Ambient Light, so turning Automatic Brightness On will not only provide better high ambient light screen visibility but also longer battery running time.
Galaxy S6 Edge:
What is especially important and news worthy is that the performance of the OLED display on a flexible plastic substrate for the Galaxy S6 Edge (and Galaxy Note Edge) is now essentially the same as on a traditional flat and hard substrate for the Galaxy S6, even at 500+ pixels per inch and 2560×1440 resolution. The most significant point is that curved and flexible displays are definitely the wave of the future because they offer many important visual and functional advantages for both mobile displays and TVs
DisplayMate provides a great amount of detail with their tests, so we highly recommend taking a look at the source link below.
Source: DisplayMate
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