One of the beautiful things about the various phones and tablets that currently fill the market is that no matter what you’re looking for, there’s a product that is catering to you. From the fantastic price point of the Kindle Fire to the cache value of the iPhone 6, every device does something great. The niche that the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 can capitalize on, according to PC World , is the accuracy of its color depictions.
Raymond Soneira at DisplayMate Technologies Corporation looked at a variety of devices, including the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, which are generally known within the industry for having great displays, and compared them to determine which had the most accurate color representations.
Everyone has had the experience, after all, of walking into a store where TVs are sold and seeing that every single TV is showing different colors, sometimes very different, even though they all are showing the same video. According to Soneira, this is because all devices depend on visual calibration at some point in their production.
It may seem like color accuracy isn’t important if your Samsung Galaxy Note isn’t next to an iPhone, a Kindle Fire, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab, just so you can compare them against each other. But if you’ve ever shopped online, chosen a product based on color, and had something you didn’t recognize turn up on your doorstep, you know that the accuracy of colors can be very important.
With more and more people using their Samsung Galaxy Notes as cameras, as often if not more often than phones, it’s even more important that we see colors accurately.
Take a look at the results at DisplayMate to see Soneira’s full methodology. For the short version, keep reading.
Soneira tested last year’s Kindle Fire HDX 8.9? (the 2014 model, he notes, wasn’t available at the time of testing), the Apple iPad Air 2, the Apple iPhone Plus, the Microsoft Surface Pro 3, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5.
His results were crystal clear; the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 handily beat the competition in all of the categories he investigated. He did note that the Apple devices did well with red and yellow tones (skin tones and bright colors), but lost huge points for how they presented blues and whites. Blues in particular aren’t as much of a problem as reds; our eyes have a harder time noticing differences in blues.
One pleasing detail of the study:
We measured the skin color for a wide selection of people of all races and ethnic groups in our photo library using a spectroradiometer and a very accurately calibrated display. [emphasis is the author’s]
Lots of tech tends to calibrate the display to properly show skin tones of the most commonly found ethnic groups in the region where the device will be sold. The fact that this study looked at all skin tones helps to assure that it’s as unbiased as is reasonable.
When you look for your next phone, will you be looking for a Samsung Galaxy Note 4? What’s the most important part of your phone?
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