Compare both iPhone X tables and Note 8 tables side to side...note 8 clearly wins in most departments. Both even say A + ratings.......Note 8 still wins for me. Apple's payola goes a long way. Failing to ignore resolution, peak brightness outdoor, complete customization, more color modes, and wider color gamuts. I give them overall accuracy but some of this was completely bias.
The Galaxy Note8 has the following enhanced state-of-the-art display performance functions and features:
· A radical new Full Display Screen design that fills almost the entire front face of the phone providing a significantly larger display for the same phone size.
· A curved screen OLED display that is manufactured on a flexible plastic substrate so that it can bend around corners on both sides of the phone to provide two curved Edge Display areas that can be viewed and controlled from both the front or the sides.
· A new larger 6.3 inch Full Screen Display that fills almost the entire front face of the Galaxy Note8 from edge-to-edge. Its display is 20% larger in screen area than the Galaxy S8 and 14% larger than previous Galaxy Note displays, without increasing the size of the phone, which is accomplished by shrinking the borders around the display. The Home button and Navigations buttons are now incorporated within the touchscreen display.
· A new display form factor with a taller height to width Aspect Ratio of 18.5
: 9 = 2.05, which is 15% larger than the 16
: 9 = 1.78 on most Smartphones (and widescreen TVs) because the display now has the same overall shape as the entire phone. It is taller in Portrait mode and wider in Landscape mode. This provides extra space for Notifications and for displaying multiple Apps and content simultaneously on-screen side-by-side.
· 4
Color Gamuts and 3 Calibrated Screen Modes with
High Absolute Color Accuracy based on our extensive Lab Measurements.
· A new larger full
100% DCI-P3 Color Gamut and Digital Cinema mode that is also used for 4K Ultra HD TVs, so the Galaxy Note8 can display the latest high-end 4K video content. The DCI-P3 Gamut is 26 percent larger than the Rec.709 Gamut that is used in 2K Full HD TVs.
· The Galaxy Note8 is certified by the UHD Alliance for
Mobile HDR Premium, which allows the Galaxy Note8 to play the same 4K High Dynamic Range content produced for 4K UHD Premium TVs.
· A larger
Native Color Gamut with a new high saturation “Deep Red” OLED, resulting in a very impressive 112% of DCI-P3 and 141% of sRGB / Rec.709 Gamuts that also provides much better on-screen Colors in High Ambient Light.
· A 3K Higher Resolution 2960 x 1440 Quad HD+ display with 521 pixels per inch, and
Diamond Pixels with Sub-Pixel Rendering.
· A Video Enhancer that provides HDR-like Expanded Dynamic Range for all videos that don’t have HDR coding.
· A record high
Peak Display Brightness of over 1,200 nits, which improves screen visibility in very high Ambient Light, and provides the high screen Brightness needed for
HDR.
· Front and back
Dual Ambient Light Sensors for significantly improved Automatic Brightness settings.
· A
Night Mode with a
Blue Light Filter that allows the user to adjust and reduce the amount of blue light from the display for better night viewing and improved sleep.
· A user
Adjustable White Point with Color Balance slider controls that can change the color of White for the Adaptive Display screen mode.
· An
Always On Display mode and
Personalized Auto Brightness Control.
· Small Color Shifts and Brightness Shifts with
Viewing Angle.
· The Galaxy Note8 can be used with Polarized Sunglasses in both the Portrait and Landscape orientations unlike LCDs, which generally work in only one of the two orientations.
· A new and even stronger curved Gorilla Glass 5 protecting the display.
Native Color Gamut (112% DCI-P3 and 141% sRGB / Rec.709).
· Highest
Peak Display Brightness (1,240 nits).
· Highest
Contrast Rating in Ambient Light (270).
· Highest Screen Resolution 3K (2960x1440).
· Highest
Contrast Ratio (Infinite).
· Lowest
Screen Reflectance (4.6 percent).
· Smallest Brightness Variation with
Viewing Angle (29 percent).
The Best Smartphone Display
The Galaxy Note8 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 (except for a single Yellow in Brightness Variation with Average Picture Level that applies to all OLED displays). See the
Display Shoot-Out Comparison Table below for all of the measurements and details, and the
Highlights and Performance Resultssection above for expanded discussions and explanations, and the
Display Assessments section for the evaluation details.
Based on our extensive lab tests and measurments the Galaxy Note8 becomes the Best Performing Smartphone Display, earning DisplayMate’s highest ever A+ grade.
