The Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge’s AMOLED displays captivated users with its fusion of design and display quality when they were unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this month, and took home a long list of awards and honors at the event. After a thorough evaluation, DisplayMate Technologies is offering its high praise as well.DisplayMate, a company that tests, evaluates and compares all kinds of displays, concluded after thorough laboratory testing that, “The Galaxy S6 matches the Galaxy Note 4 in overall display excellence and record performance and joins it as the Best Performing Smartphone Display that we have ever tested.”
The report said that with the S6 and S6 edge Samsung’s engineers were able to match or better the Note 4 in most categories, but were also essentially able to cram all that display performance into a smaller device.
The Galaxy S6 has the world’s best smartphone display, joining its cousin the Galaxy Note 4 atop the podium with a shared crown. The honor is from DisplayMate, which runs extensive testing on smartphone screens and provides very detailed performance analysis, looking at viewing angles, pixel density, color accuracy, brightness, and other sophisticated measurements.
Testing guru Raymond Soneira, the president of DisplayMate, said the new phone from Samsung “matches or breaks new records in smartphone display performance” in several areas: screen resolution, pixels per inch, and highest absolute color accuracy. He was impressed with the 2560×1440 resolution that offered 577 ppi in comparison to the Galaxy S5’s 432 ppi, a stark jump in just one release cycle.
However, it’s a shared crown with the Galaxy Note 4, as the larger display still had many of the qualities found in Samsung’s newest device. Samsung’s ability to maintain the display specs and performance with a screen smaller than the Note was particularly laudable, according to Soneira.
DisplayMate found the Galaxy S6 has "Top Tier" display performance with almost all "very good to excellent" ratings in all the testing and measurement categories. It did slip with an average rating in the "brightness variant within the average picture level" test but so did the Galaxy Note 4 last year. The Galaxy S6 broke records in the tests for the highest screen resolution, highest pixels per inch, highest absolute colour accuracy, highest peak brightness, highest screen readability in ambient light and many more.
