Apple's iPhone 14 Pro Max has best display in the world

Display technology firm DisplayMate has concluded that the iPhone 14 Pro Max display is the best on any smartphone to date, setting or matching 15 category records.

DisplayMate tests smartphone displays for a wide range of characteristics, and in 2021 it declared that the iPhone 13 Pro Max was the best it had ever tested. If that model hadn't been beaten before, it has been now — with the iPhone 14 Pro Max.

"Based on our extensive Lab Tests and Measurements," writes DisplayMate, "the iPhone 14 Pro Max has a very impressive, excellent, top tier, world class smartphone display with close to textbook perfect calibration accuracy."

"[It also has] performance that is visually indistinguishable from perfect," it continues. "Based on our objective Lab Tests and Measurements the iPhone 14 Pro Max [earns] DisplayMate's highest ever Display Performance Grade of A+.

DisplayMate says it exceeded or matched all previously tested phones in 15 categories. In eight of them, DisplayMate concluded the screen was "visually indistinguishable from perfect."

Color Accuracy of White
Absolute Color Accuracy
Shift in Color Accuracy with APL
Maximum Color Shift with APL
Image Contrast Accuracy and Intensity Scale Accuracy
Visible Screen Resolution

The remaining seven categories it met previous records or set new ones were:

Full Screen Brightness for OLED Smartphones
Peak Display Brightness
Contrast Ratio
Screen Reflectance
Contrast Rating in Ambient Light
Brightness Variation with Viewing Angle
Color Variation of White with Viewing Angle

The iPhone 14 Pro Max achieved such high test scores that DisplayMate says in future it will "raise the performance levels necessary to receive... an A+ Display Rating."

13 Comments

jas99 167 comments · 11 Years

About 2 years ago

Apple is doomed. Time to move to Android. /s

ericthehalfbee 4489 comments · 13 Years

Before someone comes up with the stupid idea DisplayMate is biased because they haven’t tested any Samsung phones recently, ask yourself this:

Why hasn’t Samsung provided any devices to test?

danox 3376 comments · 11 Years

The specifications put forward by Apple is beyond what LG or Samsung are willing to spent on a display, all of the Apple curated displays/monitors are better than anything that LG or Samsung sell, Apple is the Architect and they are the builders tied to a spec, and the same applies to Foxconn or TSMC. Prototypes are build on-shore long beforehand, in short Apple doesn’t leave it up to LG/Samsung/Foxconn or TSMC to figure it out.

Note all the people working in these divisions of Apple won’t be sitting at home.

https://www.cultofmac.com/488008/jony-ive-book-excerpt-iphone/

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/04/14/original-apple-watch-prototypes/

https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/04/29/exclusive-apples-top-secret-athena-chip-fab-gets-new-delicate-equipment

Apple Insider on the ball.

muthuk_vanalingam 1364 comments · 8 Years

ericthehalfbee said:

Before someone comes up with the stupid idea DisplayMate is biased because they haven’t tested any Samsung phones recently, ask yourself this:

Why hasn’t Samsung provided any devices to test?

i don't think anyone with decent amount of technology knowledge would argue against the fact that iPhone 14 Pro Max has the BEST display in ANY smartphone for now (until the next iPhone comes up). Samsung will definitely try to equal/better the iPhone 14 pro max display in S23 Ultra early next year but that has to wait at least for 6 months. For the first time in last decade, Samsung has ceded the display leadership to Apple while they were either equal or better in prior years (S & Note series).

muthuk_vanalingam said:

ericthehalfbee said:

Before someone comes up with the stupid idea DisplayMate is biased because they haven’t tested any Samsung phones recently, ask yourself this:

Why hasn’t Samsung provided any devices to test?

i don't think anyone with decent amount of technology knowledge would argue against the fact that iPhone 14 Pro Max has the BEST display in ANY smartphone for now (until the next iPhone comes up). Samsung will definitely try to equal/better the iPhone 14 pro max display in S23 Ultra early next year but that has to wait at least for 6 months. For the first time in last decade, Samsung has ceded the display leadership to Apple while they were either equal or better in prior years (S & Note series).

Apple was always better than Samsung when both were on the same screen technology. Only time Samsung pulled ahead was the timing of a new phone that had a newer screen.