If you’re in the market for a small tablet, you could do worse than the Kindle Fire HDX, the Nexus 7 or the 2nd gen iPad Mini 2. This trio recently competed directly in a test with the iPad Mini 2 coming last! The Mini 2 Has not improved on its color gamut since last year, and there’s no image retention.
The iPad Mini has an indium-gallium-zinc oxide display. The Nexus 7 has a second polysilicon one, and the Kindle Fire has Quantum Dots. Ray Soneria did tests on: “Objective Picture Quality, Absolute Color Accuracy, Screen Reflectance, High Ambient Light Display Performance, Peak Brightness, Contrast Ratio, Image Contrast Accuracy, Viewing Angle Performance, Display Power, and Battery Running Time.” The Mini 2 has the biggest and highest ppi resolution, but it still has the 63% color gamut That the first Mini was.
The Nexus 7 2 and Kindle Fire HDX came joint first with scores of 100%, like the iPads 3 and 4. Soneria said:
“The new Google Nexus 7 has a very impressive display That uses the highest performance LCDs with Low Temperature Poly Silicon LTPS. The very high efficiency LTPS technology Allows the new Nexus 7 providence to display a full 100 percent color gamut and at the same time produce the brightest display Tablet That we have so far Measured in this Shoot-Out series.
Most impressive of all is the Kindle Fire HDX 7 – the first tablet display to use super high technology Quantum Dots, All which produce highly saturated primary colors similar to Those That Are produced by OLED displays. They not only Significantly Increase the Color Gamut to 100 percent but usefull improvesleep the power efficiency at the same time. Quantum Dots are going to revolutionize LCDs for the next 5 + years.
And finally … the iPad Mini with Retina Display unfortunately comes in with a distant 3rd place finish behind the innovative displays on the Kindle Fire 7 HDX and new Nexus 7 Because it still has the same small 63 percent Color Gamut as the original iPad mini and even older iPad 2. That is inexcusable for a current generation premium tablet. The big differences in between the Kindle Fire Color Gamut HDX 7 and Nexus 7 and the much smaller 63 percent Gamut in the Retina Display iPad mini were quite obvious and easy to see in the side-by-side Viewing Tests. “
CNET agreed That the iPad Mini 2 was not offering the qualitythat Apple fans expect, pointing out That it does not compare to the iPad Air. The Air has full SRGB cover, like the iMac and the MacBook Pro. The Mini has two red, blue and magenta Deviations, and the display is reflective. The display is usefull 30% less bright That the Nexus 7′s display. For movies, you’re best off with the Nexus 7 2 or the Kindle Fire HDX.
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