iPhone 7 – screen performance compared to other smartphones

The iPhone 7 Plus has an inferior screen to the iPhone 7, but both perform much better than the screens used in competing smartphones.

display iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus is presented today in an extremely interesting comparison with those of other Android smartphones on the market, or even with other iPhones. In the images below, you can see a variety of comparisons made for various screen features, some highlighting certain Apple claims.

Let's start with the brightness of the screen, the iPhone 7 having it higher than the iPhone 7 Plus, the difference being 51 nits, so there is no equality between them from this point of view. It is interesting that almost all iPhones released in 2014, 2015 and 2016 have a higher brightness than the iPhone 7 Plus, at the standard value, including the Huawei P9.

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Next, we have a test that shows us how accurately the color black can be displayed by the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus screens, here there are also differences between the terminals. iPhone 7 has an advantage here as well the brother or higher, but the LG G5 gets the best results, being followed by the LG G4 in the tests.

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Moving on to the contrast ratio, we are talking about a big difference in favor of the iPhone 7 compared to the iPhone 7 Plus, which was not normally expected. Here LG G4 and LG G5 also have the advantage, very big differences exist compared to iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the larger screen having poorer performance.

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The iPhone 7 Plus has a smaller screen than the iPhone 7

Turning now to the maximum brightness displayed by the screen, the iPhone 7 reaches 706 nits, as promised by the Apple company, but the iPhone 7 Plus only reaches 618 nits, much less. Here Apple lied when it said that both terminals have equally bright screens because the reality is completely different.

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The accuracy of the display of shades of gray shows us that the iPhone 7 Plus finally has a better screen than the iPhone 7, this being the first time that the larger screen has better results. The difference between them is tiny and cannot be felt by users, so the difference between the two devices does not really matter here.

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The same thing is also visible in terms of color saturation, here the iPhone 7 has an advantage over the iPhone 7 Plus, but it is insignificant. The interesting part is that both terminals perform much, much better than those of competing smartphones, which many already expected, the Galaxy Note 7 also being surpassed.

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Finally we come to the accuracy of the color display, the iPhone 7 Plus coming out victorious in this test, the iPhone 7 coming just a little behind, without the difference mattering. However, the difference compared to the old iPhone models, or even compared to the Galaxy Note 7 is very large, and it will be easily felt in the daily use of our terminals.

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Having said that, there are big differences between the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus screens in some ways, but in other ways they are equal.