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iPad iPad color gamut… again

I had a retina iPad Mini and compared it side to side with my iPad Air. The difference is like night and day! The Air wins hands down. Actually, the mini has the worst display Apple has ever put on the iPad line. Just read what leading sites have to say about it. It's really sad how bad color accuracy on the mini is.
Do you care? I believe most people don't understand or see the difference...
It's like all Android devices. They are overs saturated but have vibrant colors. People like them, but the displays are awful..(even on the flagship models).
 
Charliebird said:
It's settled fact that the rMini has a inferrer color gamet compared to the iPad Air. It can also be agreed apon that there are many, many satisfied rMini owners out there like myself who are completely happy with their rMini. End of story. So please move along there's nothing to see here.

It's sort of funny but since we don't have new things to complain about we're started rehashing the old stuff.
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Just to clarify, gamut isn't necessarily a more is better thing.
 
cababah said:
Sorry, but color gamut sRGB value is a "more is better" thing. Being able to display a fuller range of colors is definitely desirable in any display.
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sRGB is an approximate color profile. I say approximate because there have been versions of it. You can find slightly different variations. It's not a reference space by any means. It's just something somewhat ubiquitous that we have due to convention. As for more is better, you're still dealing with 256 colors and a device that does not directly support the aforementioned color profiles. iOS still lacks system level color management, so if you went significantly past sRGB, you would run into control issues aside from the necessary hardware dithering to guard against banding when quantized to 8 bit per channel colors.

I would say that more is better up to somewhere around sRGB for this device class. Beyond that you would want a better method of handling them to be in place.
 
petvas said:
I had a retina iPad Mini and compared it side to side with my iPad Air. The difference is like night and day! The Air wins hands down. Actually, the mini has the worst display Apple has ever put on the iPad line. Just read what leading sites have to say about it. It's really sad how bad color accuracy on the mini is.
Do you care? I believe most people don't understand or see the difference...
It's like all Android devices. They are overs saturated but have vibrant colors. People like them, but the displays are awful..(even on the flagship models).
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I understand that not everyone will like over saturated, Amoled screens. However not all android devices use these displays. The HTC one M8 and LG G3 for example have natural looking colour pallets with good accuracy.
 
Shanghaichica said:
I understand that not everyone will like over saturated, Amoled screens. However not all android devices use these displays. The HTC one M8 and LG G3 for example have natural looking colour pallets with good accuracy.
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I had the M8 and it was too saturated. No comparison to the iPhone
 
Shanghaichica said:
The air and the mini are both flagship devices. The whole point of giving the mini the same specs as the air was so that the only distinguishing factor was screen size.
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The retina mini is *not* a flagship device. The iPad Air is *the* flagship device.

https://www.apple.com <-- The promo image is the iPad air
https://www.apple.com/ipad/ <-- All product images are the iPad air
https://www.apple.com/ios/ <-- All product images are the iPad air
https://www.apple.com/ipad/accessories/ <-- iPad images are again, the iPad air

http://store.apple.com/us <-- Massive promo for iPad air
http://store.apple.com/us/ipad <-- smaller promo for iPad mini, iPad air is listed first

I could go on.

The mini was made because people wanted it, but the air is the feature product. Also, Apple have never advertised that the screens were identical, you may have assumed that, but Apple has never said that. In fact, I don't think Apple has ever released colour specs for the product.
 
Brian Y said:
The retina mini is *not* a flagship device. The iPad Air is *the* flagship device.

https://www.apple.com <-- The promo image is the iPad air
https://www.apple.com/ipad/ <-- All product images are the iPad air
https://www.apple.com/ios/ <-- All product images are the iPad air
https://www.apple.com/ipad/accessories/ <-- iPad images are again, the iPad air

http://store.apple.com/us <-- Massive promo for iPad air
http://store.apple.com/us/ipad <-- smaller promo for iPad mini, iPad air is listed first

I could go on.

The mini was made because people wanted it, but the air is the feature product. Also, Apple have never advertised that the screens were identical, you may have assumed that, but Apple has never said that. In fact, I don't think Apple has ever released colour specs for the product.
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The Air is also $100 more and the more expensive product in the lineup is always the flagship. Apple will never advertise a specification that the average consumer doesn't understand or one that will highlight an inferiority.
 
petvas said:
I had the M8 and it was too saturated. No comparison to the iPhone
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That can be due to poor color handling, not just gamut volume.

msh said:
I had forgotten how far below sRGB the retina iPad Mini is so I looked it up. It is only 63% of sRGB! I am surprised it looks as good as it does.

See this article from MacRumors and the embedded link to Ray Soneira's DisplayMate review:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1673713/
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Blah I didn't realize it was that low in terms of conformance.
 
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