Smartphone display competitive benchmark

Understand how your prototype fits with the competition

Get access to a full comparison of your device performance with one or multiple competing products from the extensive DXOMARK database. Based on our robust and complete Display protocol, we evaluate all aspects of Display quality on 4 major use cases: browsing the web, navigating through the photo gallery, gaming, watching videos with 4 different technical attributes: readability, touch, color as well as video.

After running the test and competitive benchmark based on objective and perceptual measurements, our Display experts will prepare a full debrief of your device’s performance, identifying strengths as well as shortfalls in order to optimize user experience and ensure user satisfaction.

Compare your product readability performance with key competitors 

While smartphones devices become brighter and brighter, it does not necessarily automatically increase readability. Since many factors enter in consideration, it’s important to measure your display performance against various lighting environments, making sure it brings a comfortable experience to your users 

Some of the elements that we evaluate under readability: 

• Readability vs. ambient lighting, using our labs and going up to 50,000 lux mimicking an outdoor environment in repeatable and controlled conditions thanks to our state-of-the-art equipment 
• Light transitions evaluations, checking reaction time of your device vs. changing lighting environments and how the brightness adjusts 
• Artifacts that affect readability such as the percentage of reflectance when the devices are both turned on and off.  

Evaluate your HDR video playback experience

DXOMARK Experts will evaluate the quality of your video experience through different aspects, compared to your key competitors:

• EOTF measurements run in our bench, evaluating the quality of the rendering of dark tones, mid tones and highlights.
• Brightness measurements are also run on our bench, making sure that the device features the right level of luminance depending on the lighting conditions
• Along with objective measurements run in our bench, we also run perceptual analysis on a professional screen used by the movie industry and reflecting perfectly the artistic intent in terms of brightness, contrast and others. Your device is then compared to the rendering of different video patterns produced by DXOMARK to identify how close you stand vs. the artistic intent

Seize your level of visual comfort 

Visual comfort is a key concern for all users. At DXOMARK, we’ve recently established the Eye Comfort label, identifying products that bring the right level of visual comfort.
This evaluation is set on 4 different PASS / FAIL criteria, offering a comprehensive evaluation on visual comfort:  

• Temporal light modulation and Flicker perception: all smartphones devices have modulation in their luminance due to PWM and refresh rate. These variations can have disturbing effects ranging from eye strain to headache. DXOMARK experts measure here the probability of detection from the population. To pass this test, the probability of detection should be lower than 50%. 
• Brightness level:  Smartphones can be blinding if they are not well adapted to the environment. To pass this test, devices need to offer an auto-brightness mode and to be able to go as low as 2 nits when adjusting brightness manually. 
• Blue light filtering: On this specific criterion, the DXOMARK Display team measures the blue light emissions when the blue light filter is on. Our evaluation is based on the Circadian Action Factor, the ratio of energy participating in melatonin inhibition over light energy participating to human vision. The threshold for that specific criterion is 0.65, which is the equivalent of a neutral white LED light source 
• Color consistency: BLF can impact color rendering. To ensure that users are not too disturbed by the rendering and that their overall experience is not hindered by it, DXOMARK checks that the smartphone maintains 95% or more of its P3 color space coverage.