iPad Mini Display is 'Capable' But Outperformed By Amazon and Google Tablets

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Posted November 5, 2012 at 9:34pm by iClarified

DisplayMate has posted its analysis of the new iPad mini's display.

Comparing the Apple iPad mini to the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Google Nexus 7, DisplayMate found that the iPad mini fell short of its competitors due to a lower screen resolution, less screen sharpness, higher screen reflectance, smaller color gamut, and an aspect ratio that is not optimal for viewing hd content.

The iPad mini is certainly a very capable small Tablet, but it does not follow in Apple’s tradition of providing the best display, or at least a great display – it has just a very capable display. What’s more, the displays on existing mini Tablets from Amazon and Google outperform the iPad mini in most of our Lab tests as documented below in the Shoot-Out Comparison Table. Some of this results from constraints within the iPad product line, and some to realistic constraints on display technology and costs, but much of it is due to a number of poor choices and compromises.

A full analysis can be found at the link below...

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iPad Mini Display is 'Capable' But Outperformed By Amazon and Google Tablets

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Liton - November 6, 2012 at 1:29pm

No Steve, so no great change anymore with Apple.

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lepaka - November 6, 2012 at 7:54am

then will be again the question, what is happenning to the Apple shares? Apple is vertically comming down, no new ideas, the market came by themselves with better hardware. It will be harder to Apple to survive after 2015, until then they will still survive with cosmetic updates, but in a long term ... with the actual management and policy (money, money, money) they will not survive, they will go every sunday to the church and pray for Steve to come back "give me some light", "what should i do next"

lepaka - November 6, 2012 at 7:56am

by the way, the global iPad sales volume already drop from 59% to 50% market share

NoGoodNick - November 6, 2012 at 2:24am

I could have produced the same chart by reading the basic spec sheets. There was no analysis of which displays showed better color, perspective or details. We already knew the iPad mini had a lower resolution, but I was hoping for more detail on whether it was a better designed display or not. This report has no analysis to it.

Nibbley - November 5, 2012 at 11:07pm

Well saw this arriving. Just wait, here is Apple's speech next year when the iPad mini 2 arrives: we now installed a new screen capable of 286ppi packed into the same form factor, oh and it will have great battery life on the new screen. Give it another year and we will play catch up to whatever the Nexus 7 and Kindle do.