Display Performance
A mobile device’s display serves as its primary interface—the front is basically all screen—and, over the course of a day, we can spend many hours staring at it in lighting conditions varying from a pitch-black room to bright sunlight outdoors. Because display quality so profoundly impacts our mobile experience, we thoroughly scrutinize its performance.
For display measurements, we use a SpectraCal C6 colorimeter, which measures color and luminance accurately and works equally well with LCD or OLED screens. The C6 is calibrated by SpectraCal with a Konica Minolta CS-2000 and comes with a NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) certificate of accuracy. Even though sealed designs like the C6 are more stable than designs whose color filters are exposed to air, the accuracy of all colorimeters can drift over time. Therefore, our C6 hardware gets calibrated as required.