New iPad Pro 9.7-inch Display is 'Truly Impressive' and a 'Major Upgrade'

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Posted April 12, 2016 at 3:33pm by iClarified

The display on the iPad Pro 9.7 is a 'truly impressive top performing display' and a 'major upgrade' to the display on the iPad Air 2, reports DisplayMate. After putting the display through numerous tests, DisplayMate found it to be the best performing mobile LCD display that they've ever tested.

The iPad Pro 9.7 fully and very accurately supports two important standard Color Gamuts, the new DCI-P3 Wide Color Gamut that is used in 4K UHD TVs and Digital Cinema, and also the traditional smaller sRGB / Rec.709 Color Gamut that is used for producing virtually all current consumer content for digital cameras, TVs, the internet, and computers, including photos, videos, and movies. The Absolute Color Accuracy of the iPad Pro 9.7 is Truly Impressive as shown in these Figures. It is the most color accurate display that we have ever measured. It is visually indistinguishable from perfect, and is very likely considerably better than any mobile display, monitor, TV or UHD TV that you have.

New iPad Pro 9.7-inch Display is 'Truly Impressive' and a 'Major Upgrade'

The iPad Pro 9.7 reflects just 1.7 percent of the ambient light by using a new Anti-Reflection AR coating. That's the lowest screen reflectance of any mobile display by far. This means compared to most tablets and smartphones light glare is reduced by 3 to 1.

The new iPad display breaks records for Highest Absolute Color Accuracy for any display for Both Color Gamuts (1.35 JNCD), Lowest Screen Reflectance for any mobile display (1.7 percent), Highest Peak Brightness in a full size Tablet for any Picture Level (511 nits), Highest Contrast Rating in High Ambient light (301), and Smallest Color variation with Viewing Angle (all under 2.0 JNCD).

Addressing the new True Tone feature that changes the white point and color balance of the display based on ambient light, DisplayMate feels the feature needs a slider to adjust the magnitude of the effect.

Check out a comparison of the 9.7-inch and 12.9-inch iPad displays in the chart below and hit the link for DisplayMate's full review.

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Ace* - April 13, 2016 at 4:26am

Yes, exactly. Agreeing with Curtis and replying to the previous post. And again, Apple has always been good about user experience - operating systems, user interfaces, and ergonomics. Like making furniture more comfortable and pleasing for you to sit in and thus making it more enjoyable to use/be productive with. Apple has never been about the actual engineering of the individual components though and that is their weakness. Because now the companies that were amazing engineers of the components are now creating the actual products themselves. The Korean and Japanese companies are producing more phones, cameras, projectors, televisions, appliances, etc...

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Ace* - April 12, 2016 at 4:43pm

That's nice. Apple must pay a hefty price to have that screen produced. Oh you didn't know? Apple doesn't actually create/produce the screen technology in any of it's devices. In fact, the majority of them are produced by Samsung with LG coming in second. iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/14/05/12/samsung-once-again-apples-top-supplier-of-97-ipad-retina-displays

gamerscul9870 - April 12, 2016 at 7:37pm

That doesn't mean that they built the display for the iPad overall and integrate it into iOS.

Mang Domeng - April 12, 2016 at 9:32pm

I am a designer and my creations are made by my contractor. Let's say I have designed a furniture and have my contractor/supplier to manufacture it for me and I tell them how it will be done, does that mean my contractor/supplier own my design and the process of how it will be made? I don't agree with you Silver. Samsung and LG are not the designers of the screens, they only manufacture it based on how Apple designed it (or how they will do it). That is why the technology is the same even if it made by Samsung or LG. Apple send the palns and Samsung/LG executes it. They are different companies yet they have the same technology applied, if you look at it they should sue each other for using other's designs. That is why Samsung has their own technology which is the OLED in their devices because they cannot use Apple's IPS screen design. Take a look at the latest iMac. Samsung and LG only has the 4k technology yet and Apple already has the 5k screen technology in their iMacs. Apple is known for designing their devices from hardware to software. Apple is giving business to Samsung and LG to mass produce, that's all. Also take a look at luxury fashion brands like Gucci. The designs are by Gucci and the dresses are made by their suppliers in Italy but it is still made by Gucci.

curtixman - April 13, 2016 at 4:05am

That's incorrect. At least in this case. Apple typically takes parts and components that already exist in the wild and put them together into some iDevice. The design the logic boards of most of their devices and how many of those components work with each other but the components themselves are never built or designed by Apple. Apple makes operating systems and pretty cases that hold a lot of tech that was invented, designed and manufactured by other companies. In the case of every LCD or display that Apple has ever used, they are not even designed by Apple. They are displays that exist and have been invented and designed by other companies that Apple uses in/on the products they make. In the case of the iPhone 5 for example; the only part of the drip lay that Apple designed was the class that is laminated to the digitizer. The digitizer was designed selects from any plans Apple ever had to release the iPhone 5 and was/is used in many other pie Es of tech around the world. Apple needed a digitizer that matched the specs and size they needed and they picked one. Same with the LCD. Apple is good at bringing things together. The don't invent anything except perhaps the art of patent hoarding.

Ace* - April 13, 2016 at 4:18am

Your analogy to contracting is horrible and fails. Let me make the situation more clear for you since you don't seem to understand. Samsung engineers are amazing. They have the most innovative technology for their own devices. They created a simply amazing 28mp apsc-sized sensor for the nx1, their flagship mirrorless camera. The camera has been lauded by professionals and enthusiasts. It's definitely the best apsc sensor designed, better than Sony's. And Samsung discontinued the camera because it wasn't important enough to them. That's how progressive/competitive they are. Samsung's electronics engineering is far beyond Apple's. In fact, Apple isn't even producing the components. Apple is primarily involved in the industrial design and ergonomics of the phone. Simply put, Apple is not designing the screens. Samsung engineers and the engineers at LG and Japanese companies such as Sony are doing all of the innovative things with electronics.

rastas - April 13, 2016 at 10:30am

Agreed...Apple does not innovate, they market

paulMOGG - April 12, 2016 at 3:43pm

One word 'WOW'