The Nokia Lumia 1020 features PureMotion HD+ technology, a ClearBlack display, and supersensitive screen. Beg pardon?
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The smartphone industry tosses around a whole bucket of names and numbers to describe the viewing experience on your smartphone screen: ClearBlack, 1080p, Retina, AMOLED, supersensitive. And the list goes on.
Some designations are marketing monikers cooked up to give one company an edge; others are more scientific. That isn’t to say that flashy names like Apple’s Retina Display are worthless and empty. Sometimes the trademarked name masks a unique process too technical to quickly explain.
To make things simpler, here are some common terms you might see attached to smartphone screens, and some factors that actually go into making your screen a standout, like the physical screen materials, LCD versus OLED, brightness, color accuracy, and pixel resolution. Got all that? Good. Now let’s dive in.
Common smartphone screens The terms often used to describe smartphone screens aren’t always so clear.
- Retina Display: Apple’s proprietary name for its LCD screen, which serves up a 1,136×640 pixel resolution.
- HD Super AMOLED: Samsung’s name for its high-definition smartphone displays, which use the OLED screen technology.
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