iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus have a new screen, it does not have a new diagonal or resolution, but it benefits from the innovations that the Apple company has been offering for the iPad for several months. In this article I will talk about what Apple changed in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus screen to make it great, the changes making the user experience much better.
Wide Color or DCI-P3
The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus screens are the first in which the Apple company has implemented support for the wide color standard, or DCI-P3, it being used in the iMac 5K and later in the iPad Pro. The standard was developed for the cinematographic industry in the USA and has the role of allowing the visualization of a much larger range of colors on screens.
Until now, all iPhone terminals have used the sRGB standard to reproduce colors, which has a much smaller range of colors that it can display. Starting with iPhone 7, things change, and Apple brings Wide Color, or DCI-P3, but it had to modify iOS 10 in such a way that the implementation of the support does not display the screens of the old products, and the developers have access to APIs for he.
Now if you are wondering how advanced the Wide Color standard is in relation to sRGB, well in the image above you can see the difference very clearly. The colored part represents the spectrum of colors perceived by the human eye, and the triangle represents the range of colors that can be reproduced by the two standards.
On the left you can see the technological limits of sRGB and on the right those of Wide Color, the difference between the two being very large and will certainly be felt by users. Practically, this new DCI-P3 standard will display several color combinations on our screens, including those recorded by the cameras, which have supported this standard since a few years ago.
"With a new wide color gamut, the Retina HD display is able to deliver cinema‑standard colors — and the best color management in the smartphone industry. More shades of the color spectrum can be used to create an image, meaning that what you see on the screen is a truer representation of the world. So whether you're checking out photos of that perfect dress or Live Photos you took in the tropics, the colors will be so accurate, it will look like you're there."
Apple had to create a special chip for managing the colors displayed by the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus screens, and users will fully enjoy these changes.
25% brighter and a better 3D Touch
Separately from the implementation of Wide Color support, Apple made the iPhone 7 screen up to 25% brighter than the iPhone 6S, so we will see everything more clearly even when the sunlight affects it. If you've been using an iPhone for a while, you know that under certain conditions, sunlight makes it almost impossible to understand the information displayed on the screens.
Finally, the iPhone 7 also benefits from an improved 3D Touch by Apple, the implementation of which is possible thanks to technological advances in the industry.
In conclusion, the iPhone 7 screen is the best ever implemented in an iPhone, even if we are not talking about a transition to OLED screens.
