that makes for a deeply impressive contrast, but if you were to try to watch an OLED TV outside where there is lots of bright light or glare, the picture would not be as impressive.
For that reason, the OLED panels we see in phones, and specifically in the new iPhone 12 phones, is a different kind of OLED screen phones use what is called an OLED panel, and the key here is in the difference between these bullet panel types, TV OLED panels which are all made by LG Display use a white sub-pixel which has a color filter over it pluck out red, green, and blue primary colors,
the thing about color filters though, in order to get from white, for example, you have to carve out all the wavelengths but red, and that reduces brightness. The cool thing about foldable LEDs though is that they use one red one blue and two green.
How Are These OLED Screens Different?
There is no color filter involved. So these phone screens can get fairly bright, you still have to be careful about overdriving them heating them up too much, and potentially getting screen burning though, it's not like they defy the laws of physics, and that is what makes Apples claims about its displays both impressive, and also highly suspect.
See Apple says its new iPhones can produce up to 1200 nit of brightness. But hold on, what is the net is display speed for a unit of brightness and to put things into perspective most OLED TVs max out at about 700 nits to 1200 nits is much brighter and more in line with what you could get from an LCD TV, but in an OLED with perfect blacks that 1200 nits would make for some amazing contrast. the thing, though, Apple does not make the screens that go into its phone.
In the case of the iPhone 12 series, those screens will most likely have been made by Samsung uses the same screens and its own phones so if Apple phones can do it then, Samsung should be able to as well, right, not necessarily just as it is with TVs, is not the screen that makes the pretty pictures show the screen is used.
If it was just the screen pulling off all the magic then LG Sony Panasonic envisions OLED TVs would all look the same, but the difference is in processing heat management power management, and other factors. So, just say this now, there is no way the iPhone 12 is putting out 1200 nits of brightness in any meaningful way.
They totally cook the books to get that number, but if Apple is making that kind of claim, then itis more than likely that it has managed to make an even brighter OLED display. And that means that its phones will offer better contrast than we have seen in a phone before and if they do everything else right its phones may very well have picture quality better than the old OLED TVs that we have today.
That is really something. But then add in that these phones cannot just display Dolby Vision HDR, they can record it. That means you not only get amazing-looking movies and TV shows from Netflix and Apple TV, but you can record your phone and enjoy it on. On the screen. Now, I don't think that the average
Joe is going to be making Dolby Vision content that looks as good as what the folks in Hollywood make, but it will probably mean that it will be the most impressive we saw taken by a phone, at least until the competition starts doing it as well sure the screens are smaller, and they can give you anything that comes close to a cinematic experience, but more and more people are watching content on their phones, instead of their TVs. this is so nice to know these new iPhone models are going to be putting out image quality that rivals, our TVs.
