iPhone 11 Pro Super Retina XDR display rated best smartphone screen with ‘highest ever A+ rating’ from DisplayMate

Apple touted that the iPhone 11 Pro features the best display it has ever produced, the Super Retina XDR display, that sets new records for smartphones. Now DisplayMate is out today with its highly detailed review and has given Apple’s Super Retina XDR its “highest ever A+ grade” and given it the “Best Smartphone Display Award.”

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The award for the iPhone 11 Pro comes after Apple won the same with its iPhone XS. This year, the display improvements coming with the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max include new brightness level records giving users up to 1,200 nits and more.

The Super Retina XDR display boasts not one but two new record levels of brightness and understands when to use them. It hits up to 800 nits when you’re out in the sun — great for shooting and making selects on the go — and up to 1200 nits when you’re viewing extreme dynamic range content. It’s like having a Pro Display XDR on your iPhone.

DisplayMate noted those achievements and also highlighted many other aspects that the Super Retina XDR display takes the highest honors in the smartphone category.

The iPhone 11 Pro Max matches or sets new Smartphone Display Performance Records for:

Note that Numerical Performance Differences that are Visually Indistinguishable are considered Matched and Tied Performance Records.

•  Highest Absolute Color Accuracy (0.9 JNCD)  –  Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
•  Smallest Shift in Color Accuracy with the Image Content APL (0.3 JNCD)  –  Visually Indistinguishable From Perfect.
•  Highest Full Screen Brightness for OLED Smartphones (770 nits for 100% APL and 821 nits for 50% APL).
•  Highest Full Screen Contrast Rating in Ambient Light (171 at 100% APL).
•  Highest HDR Peak Brightness of 1,290 nits for standard HDR 20% APL, and 1,090 nits for Full Screen White with 100% APL.
•  Highest  Contrast Ratio (Infinite).
•  Lowest Screen Reflectance (4.5 percent).
•  Smallest  Brightness Variation with Viewing Angle (25% at 30 degrees).
•  Highest  Visible Screen Resolution 2.7K (2688×1242)  –  4K Does Not appear visually sharper on a Smartphone.

Check out the entire deep dive on how the iPhone 11 Pro’s new Super Retina XDR display performed in DisplayMate’s testing here.

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