The Apple iPad Mini 2 was recently put up against the Nexus 7 2nd gen and the Kindle Fire HDX and the results may surprise some people. The Kindle Fire HDX and the Nexus 7 2 both came out ahead of the Apple iPad Mini 2. It seems the latter is let down by the fact that the colour gamut hasn’t changed since the iPad Mini 1 and there is no image retention.
With the Apple iPad Mini 2 there is a display of gallium zinc oxide, the Kindle Fire HD has the Quantum dot display and the Nexus 7 2 has a display of polysilicon. Tests were made by Dr Ray Soneria who completed tests for “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 highest ppi and resolution was found on the Apple iPad Mini 2, however it was let down by the colour gamut which was said to be the same as on the original iPad Mini.
For colour gamut the Kindle Fire HDX and the Nexus 7 2nd gen both had 100% and this was the same as that of the Apple iPad 4 and 3. Dr Soneria came to the conclusion:
“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 display to provide a full 100 percent Color Gamut and at the same time produce the brightest Tablet display that we have measured so far 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, which produce highly saturated primary colors that are similar to those produced by OLED displays. They not only significantly increase the Color Gamut to 100 percent but also improve 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 HDX 7 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 Color Gamut between the Kindle Fire HDX 7 and Nexus 7 and the much smaller 63 percent Gamut in the iPad mini Retina Display were quite obvious and easy to see in the side-by-side Viewing Tests.”
CNET said that the quality of the Apple iPad Mini 2 was nowhere as good as that of the Apple iPad Air. They pointed out that the MacBook and iMac Pro both offered the same SRGB. They said that there were also deviations in blue, red and magenta on the Apple iPad Mini 2 along with the display being reflective. They said that the display offered 30% the light of that of the Nexus 2nd gen. So anyone who likes to watch a movie on their tablet would be better with the Nexus 7 2 of the Kindle Fire HDX.
