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If you need to repair your phone screen you may have been looking into different types of screen replacements. You’ve probably heard of the acronyms LCD and OLED in TVs before, but what are the differences between LCD and OLED screens and what will be best for your phone?

LCD or Liquid Crystal Display has been the standard for computer, tablet, and phone screens for the past decade. These screens offer great brightness, high definition, and are becoming relatively inexpensive. We tend to see LCD screens on the less expensive cell phone models, today. LCD screens can have great HD quality and have good performance in direct sunlight but tend to be more inefficient when it comes to power consumption compared to an OLED screen.

Over the past few years, many companies have been switching to newer screen technology: OLED displays. OLED, which stands for organic light-emitting diode, is being used on all of the latest flagship devices. They tout amazing contrast of color, they’re lighter and flexible and tend to be more efficient than LCDs. OLED technology is being used for curved edge phones like theGalaxy S10+and theGalaxy S20, S20+, and S20 Ultra 5G. OLEDs have also been used in folding smartphone displays like theSamsung Galaxy Fold, the newMotorola razrsmart flip phone, and theSamsung Galaxy Z Flip.

OLED displays are being used by Apple in their iPhone 11 Pro Max, 11 Pro, XS Max, XS, and X. iPhone X flagship series and newer will come with OLED. Both flagship Samsung Galaxy S and Note Series have OLED displays as the standard on all recent devices including the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 series, S9+, S9, Note 9, S8, S8+, Note 8, and so on. These phones also all have OLED displays: LG V40, LG V30, Huawei P30 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, OnePlus 6T, and the Motorola Moto Z2 Force Edition.

The iPhone 11 and the XR still use LCD displays as well as all other iPhones that came before the X series including the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 6s, and so on. Basically, any iPhone with a Home Button will have a LCD screen on it. The LG G7 ThinQ, LG G6, Moto E5, and Moto E6 all have LCD displays as well.

When getting your device repaired, it is a good idea to use the display type that was originally installed on your phone. For example, if you have the iPhone X, which comes with an OLED display, ideally, you will want to get an OLED replacement. This will keep your phone running as efficiently as possible. If you need a more economical solution it is sometimes possible to get an LCD replacement, but keep in mind that they can drain your battery faster and may not have the same color contrast and may not be optimized for your phone.

One of the easiest ways to determine which display type you have is to go to a true black screen – you can search for this on Google Images. If your display type is LCD your pixels will still be displaying a dark gray light. If you have an OLED display the screen will be totally black. It is easier to tell when this experiment is performed in a dark room. You can also searchGSMArenafor your phone and then view its display type.

In most cases, yes, you can trade-in a repaired iPhone with a non OEM display on it. However, depending on the company you choose to trade your iPhone in with the trade-in price may decrease due to a non OEM display. For example, at SmartphonesPLUS you can trade in a phone that has a replacement screen on it or with other replacement parts as well.

For all the new technologies that have come our way in recent times, it’s worth taking a minute to consider an old battle going on between two display types. Two display types that can be found across monitors, TVs, mobile phones, cameras and pretty much any other device that has a screen.

In one corner is LED (light-emitting diode). It’s the most common type of display on the market, however, it might be unfamiliar because there’s slight labelling confusion with LCD (liquid crystal display).

For display purposes the two are the same, and if you see a TV or smartphone that states it has an ‘LED’ screen, it’s an LCD. The LED part just refers to the lighting source, not the display itself.

In a nutshell, LED LCD screens use a backlight to illuminate their pixels, while OLED’s pixels produce their own light. You might hear OLED’s pixels called ‘self-emissive’, while LCD tech is ‘transmissive’.

The light of an OLED display can be controlled on a pixel-by-pixel basis. This sort of dexterity isn’t possible with an LED LCD – but there are drawbacks to this approach, which we’ll come to later.

In cheaper TVs and LCD-screen phones, LED LCD displays tend to use ‘edge lighting’, where LEDs sit to the side of the display, not behind it. The light from these LEDs is fired through a matrix that feeds it through the red, green and blue pixels and into our eyes.

LED LCD screens can go brighter than OLED. That’s a big deal in the TV world, but even more so for smartphones, which are often used outdoors and in bright sunlight.

Brightness is generally measured as ‘nits’ – roughly the light of a candle per square metre. Brightness is important when viewing content in ambient light or sunlight, but also for high dynamic range video. This applies more to TVs, but phones boast credible video performance, and so it matters in that market too. The higher the level of brightness, the greater the visual impact.

Take an LCD screen into a darkened room and you may notice that parts of a purely black image aren’t black, because you can still see the backlighting (or edge lighting) showing through.

You’ll often see a contrast ratio quoted in a product’s specification, particularly when it comes to TVs and monitors. This tells you how much brighter a display’s whites are compared to its blacks. A decent LCD screen might have a contrast ratio of 1,000:1, which means the whites are a thousand times brighter than the blacks.

Contrast on an OLED display is far higher. When an OLED screen goes black, its pixels produce no light whatsoever. That means an infinite contrast ratio, although how great it looks will depend on how bright the screen can go. In general, OLED screens are best suited for use in darker rooms, and this is certainly the case where TVs are concerned.

OLED panels enjoy excellent viewing angles, primarily because the technology is so thin, and the pixels are so close to the surface. You can walk around an OLED TV or spread out in different spots in your living room, and you won’t lose out on contrast. For phones, viewing angles are extra important because you don’t tend to hold your hand perfectly parallel to your face.

Viewing angles are generally worse in LCDs, but this varies hugely depending on the display technology used. And there are lots of different kinds of LCD panel.

Perhaps the most basic is twisted nematic (TN). This is the type used in budget computer monitors, cheaper laptops, and very low-cost phones, and it offers poor angled viewing. If you’ve ever noticed that your computer screen looks all shadowy from a certain angle, it’s more than likely it uses a twisted nematic panel.

Thankfully, a lot of LCD devices use IPS panels these days. This stands for ‘in-plane switching’ and it generally provides better colour performance and dramatically improved viewing angles.

IPS is used in most smartphones and tablets, plenty of computer monitors and lots of TVs. It’s important to note that IPS and LED LCD aren’t mutually exclusive; it’s just another bit of jargon to tack on. Beware of the marketing blurb and head straight to the spec sheet.

The latest LCD screens can produce fantastic natural-looking colours. However, as is the case with viewing angles, it depends on the specific technology used.

OLED’s colours have fewer issues with pop and vibrancy, but early OLED TVs and phones had problems reining in colours and keeping them realistic. These days, the situation is better, Panasonic’s flagship OLEDs are used in the grading of Hollywood films.

Where OLED struggles is in colour volume. That is, bright scenes may challenge an OLED panel’s ability to maintain levels of colour saturation. It’s a weakness that LCD-favouring manufacturers enjoy pointing out.

Both have been the subject of further advancements in recent years. For LCD there’s Quantum Dot and Mini LED. The former uses a quantum-dot screen with blue LEDs rather than white LEDs and ‘nanocrystals’ of various sizes to convert light into different colours by altering its wavelength. Several TV manufacturers have jumped onboard Quantum Dot technology, but the most popular has been Samsung’s QLED branded TVs.

Mini LED is another derivation of LED LCD panels, employing smaller-sized LEDs that can emit more light than standard versions, increasing brightness output of the TV. And as they are smaller, more can be fitted into a screen, leading to greater control over brightness and contrast. This type of TV is becoming more popular, though in the UK and Europe it’s still relatively expensive. You can read more about Mini LED and its advantages in our explainer.

OLED, meanwhile, hasn’t stood still either. LG is the biggest manufacturer of large-sized OLED panels and has produced panels branded as evo OLED that are brighter than older versions. It uses a different material for its blue OLED material layer within the panel (deuterium), which can last for longer and can have more electrical current passed through it, increasing the brightness of the screen, and elevating the colour volume (range of colours it can display).

Another development is the eagerly anticipated QD-OLED. This display technology merges Quantum Dot backlights with an OLED panel, increasing the brightness, colour accuracy and volume, while retaining OLED’s perfect blacks, infinite contrast and potentially even wider viewing angles, so viewers can spread out anywhere in a room and see pretty much the same image. Samsung and Sonyare the two companies launching QD-OLED TVs in 2022.

And for smartphones there’s been a move towards AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) screens for Android screens, while Apple has moved towards OLED for its smartphones and tried Mini LED with its iPad Pro. Technologies are consistently evolving with Superand Dynamic AMOLED versions available, more performance is being eked out.

While LED LCD has been around for much longer and is cheaper to make, manufacturers are beginning to move away from it, at least in the sense of the ‘standard’ LCD LED displays, opting to explore the likes of Mini LED and Quantum Dot variations.

OLED has gained momentum and become cheaper, with prices dipping well below the £1000 price point. OLED is much better than LED LCD at handling darkness and lighting precision, and offers much wider viewing angles, which is great for when large groups of people are watching TV. Refresh rates and motion processing are also better with OLED though there is the spectre of image retention.

If you’re dealing with a limited budget, whether you’re buying a phone, a monitor, a laptop or a TV, you’ll almost certainly end up with an LCD-based screen. OLED, meanwhile, incurs more of a premium but is getting cheaper, appearing in handheld gaming devices, laptops, some of the best smartphones as well as TVs

Which is better? Even if you eliminate money from the equation, it really comes down to personal taste. Neither OLED nor LCD LED is perfect. Some extol OLED’s skill in handling darkness, and its lighting precision. Others prefer LCD’s ability to go brighter and maintain colours at bright levels.

How do you decide? Stop reading this and go to a shop to check it out for yourself. While a shop floor isn’t the best environment in which to evaluate ultimate picture quality, it will at least provide an opportunity for you to realise your priorities. Whether you choose to side with LCD or OLED, you can take comfort in the fact that both technologies have matured considerably, making this is a safe time to invest.

Let’s start with the basics. There are basically two different kinds of iPhone displays. The first is LCD, which stands for liquid-crystal display. To simplify the explanation (and this is a significant simplification) let’s look at two of the components that make LCDs work. The first is their pixels, which are what dictate the colours that appear onscreen. Each pixel has three subpixels — one red, one green, and one blue — which each change in intensity. That combination of colours creates the images that appear when you scroll on Instagram, watch a YouTube video, or look at your photos.

The second component with LCDs is the backlight. The backlight is a panel that sits behind the pixels, and shines light through them in order for you to see what you see. When you change the brightness of your display, you’re really controlling the backlight, and it covers the entire display; think of it like a lightbulb — you can’t decide to have one part of the lightbulb getting brighter while another part gets dimmer.

The other type of iPhone display is OLED, short for organic light-emitting diode. The major difference between LCD and OLED displays is that there is no backlight in an OLED panel. Instead, the pixels lightthemselves up. That gives you some significant benefits; for one, you can have more finely detailed images, since each pixel stands out on its own, rather than requiring a backlight that covers all surrounding pixels as well. The biggest benefit, and the one you might see people talk about most, is that OLED pixels can turn themselves off, giving you incredible contrast between light and dark images.

Here’s an example of why that’s great: Let’s say you’re watching a movie on your phone. Anytime there are dark scenes in that movie, those areas of your display will quite literally turn off. A night sky goes completely black; if the movie is widescreen or a square 4:3, the bars that appear top and bottom or left and right are suddenly completely dark. It results in a very good-looking image, especially if you’re watching in a low-lit room.

These benefits are why I love OLED TVs in particular. The image is fantastic, and, when watching in a totally dark room, letterboxing bars just disappear; you only see the part of the screen you should (whether it be super widescreen or the old square format).

When it comes to iPhones, if you compare an LCD iPhone and an OLED iPhone and fill each display with a black rectangle, it would perfectly visualise the difference. The OLED iPhone would look like it was turned off; the LCD iPhone would still appear dark, but the display would be illuminated.

Because OLED pixels can turn themselves off, there are huge implications for battery life. You can save your iPhone some juice just by using dark mode, specifically the kind of dark mode that uses black backgrounds. (Grey ones won’t turn the pixels off, so you really need all-black elements to save your iPhone’s battery from having to power each and every pixel.)

Traditionally, the main flaw with OLED displays is burn-in. You see this a lot with OLED TVs, unfortunately; after an extended period of use, sometimes the “shadow” of static images will always remain on your screen. People who watch a lot of news, for example, complain that they can see the outline of the chyron, news ticker, and outlet logo on their TVs at all times.

That said, Apple has done a good job to prevent burn-in on OLED iPhones and it just isn’t a common complaint with these devices. The first OLED iPhone — the X — has been out since 2017, and in those four years, residual images haven’t been a noted issue. That’s to say, you don’t need to go out of your way to choose an LCD iPhone if you’re afraid of burn-in.

Below, I’ve listed each and every iPhone that Apple has ever made, complete with their display type. Some of these iPhones are quite old, but I’d love to know if you’re still rocking them. I should note that there are no new LCD iPhones; the last one Apple produced was the 2020 iPhone SE, and the iPhone 11 before that. The entire iPhone 12 and 13 lineups are made using OLED displays.

OLED displays have several advantages over LCDs, including superior contrast, thinner profiles, and faster image refresh rates. Plus, they consume less power, and their production is more environmentally friendly than LCDs’.

However, there are tradeoffs. OLED displays are more susceptible to image “burn-in” after prolonged use, and they tend to burn out quicker, too. Their relatively short lifespans are tied to image brightness.

These concessions don’t always make sense for commercial applications, though commercial OLEDs are manufactured with these limitations in mind. For example, modern OLED signage displays protect against burn-in with self-healing technology. Though, as you might expect, their price point is much higher than their LCD alternatives’.

You may be wondering about some other terms we haven’t discussed yet, such as 4K, HiDPI, and Retina display. These describe screen resolutions, and while the subject of resolution could warrant an entire article, there are a few things you should know when selecting (or being sold) displays for your project.

Screen resolutions describe the number of pixels available to represent an image. Some common standards are SD, HD, and 4K, and resolutions can also be defined by horizontal and vertical pixel counts.

SD is easy to spot because it appears as that 4:3 (almost) squared image on older TVs instead of the widescreen, rectangular shape of modern displays. When you’re watching TV and you see an old show come on with black bars on each side, it’s because the show was produced in SD.

Screen resolutions used to be standardized and easy to understand. But with the proliferation of tablets, phones, gaming devices, and laptops, there are now too many to count.

So, now we can determine the number of pixels in a display from its resolution. But are those pixels compressed into a 40” TV or spread out across a 15’ video wall? The resolution alone does not tell us how good an image will look. The pixel density and the viewers’ distance from the screen do.

DPI (dots per inch) and PPI (pixels per inch) are measures of density that represent the number of pixels per inch of screen. HiDPI is a term used for displays with very high pixel density—usually at least 200 DPI. High-density displays came on our radar with iPhones. Since then, tablets, notebooks, and other HiDPI personal devices have followed.

Today, smartphones have DPIs climbing into the 500s, while an 8K TV might have a PPI of only 117. The reason for this disparity is perspective: the closer the viewer is to the screen, the higher DPI you’ll need for a crisp, seamless image. Though, the opposite is also true. You might not need to splurge on those 8K displays if the viewing area is far away. Most scoreboards and video walls have lower resolutions than a 4K TV—and much lower DPI.

“Retina display” is a proprietary term used by Apple. It refers to displays with a pixel density so high that the human eye cannot perceive the pixels. Apple introduced the term with the iPhone 4, which had 326 DPI. Steve Jobs qualified the screen as having imperceptible pixels at a distance of 12 inches.

Consider a “day in the life” of a commercial display. It is constantly on, perhaps 24 hours a day. If used for signage, it might show the same images over and over again, making it susceptible to burn-in. Depending on its location, it may be at risk of being bumped around by staff or patrons, and aesthetically it might require a perfectly rectangular frame to match up with adjacent screens or windows.

Consumer TVs are not built with these issues in mind. Their chassis are not as sturdy, and their components do not last as long as commercial displays’. Further, consumer TV designs are updated frequently, so you might have a hard time finding a replacement that matches the building’s other displays when the need arises.

When buying TVs for your commercial project, it’s best to understand your needs clearly and avoid getting distracted by buzzwords and tech hype. The battle between LCD and OLED technology is ongoing as manufacturers work to improve the image quality of LCDs and make OLEDs more durable and affordable.

If you are about to buy a new cell phone, you should carefully consider what you expect from the display. Depending on the technology used – LCD or OLED – you will have to deal with different display characteristics. This blog article offers you decision support and background information on both screen technologies.

Even though you will have come across some terms like TFT and AMOLED during your research, there are basically only two types of displays: LCDs and OLEDs. There are various subtypes and developments of both technologies, such as the Retina display or Super AMOLED.

The difference between LCD and OLED screens lies in how the individual pixels are made to light up. For an LCD, additional backlighting is needed fto generate an image. With an OLED panel, this is not necessary due to self-luminous diodes.

LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display. In this screen technology, the image is generated by liquid crystals. An LCD panel always consists of several “layers”, such as the display glass, the electrode layer for voltage generation and the backlight. The image-producing layer consists of liquid crystals.

Each liquid crystal forms a pixel. In turn, this consists of a total of three subpixels: red, green and blue. The liquid crystals and thus each subpixel are individually controlled and regulated by electrical voltage. As a result, a wide range of colors including black and white can be generated for each pixel. The liquid crystal layer must be backlit to produce the colors. This means that the display can never darken completely – which is why there is no real deep black in an LCD.

The abbreviation OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. The name already gives an idea of how this type of screen works: Unlike LCDs, a backlight is not necessary because the diodes can light up themselves. Each diode is therefore its own small light source consisting of red, green and blue subpixels. Depending on which image is to be shown on the display, the intensity of the illumination is changed by electrical voltage. This allows a wide variety of colors to be produced. White is created by the combination of red, green and blue pixels. As a result, it usually appears somewhat darker than on an LCD. On the other hand, black image elements are created by simply leaving the diodes completely off. Thus, the black value of OLED displays is especially good.

Like the LCD, an OLED display also consists of several layers. In addition to the light-emitting diodes, semiconductor layers are needed to control and regulate the diodes.

If it is important to you that your smartphone is inexpensive – both in purchase and repair – you should rather go for an LCD. Replacement screens with this technology, such as the iPhone 11, iPhone Xr or Samsung Galaxy A21s, are available at a low price.

If you do not want to miss out on brilliant colors, you should rather opt for an OLED display. The iPhone X and the Galaxy S10, for example, are equipped with them. Be careful when buying replacement parts, though: Many retailers offer you particularly low prices by selling you an LCD instead of an OLED – without telling. Therefore, do not let yourself be lured by a low price, but carefully read the product description to find out more about the replacement screen.

In our store, you can choose between OLED and LCD technology for some Apple displays. This way, you can decide for yourself which variant fits your needs and budget.

The VR Display we provide includes 2.1 inch, 2.54 inch, 2.9 inch, 2.95 inch, 3 inch, 3.5 inch, 3.81 inch, 5.55 inch, 6 inch. For micro OLED can be used on VR, we provide 0.71 inch 1920x1080 display.

When you are choosing a VR, its parameters are important. First is resolution, then screen type, refresh rate, FOV, PPI, PPD, pupil distance adjustment, weight, etc. I believe most of you know the Arpara 5K VR reaches 5120*2560 resolution, so we won"t go deep into resolution today. But focus on display type. Is a VR hamlet good or bad, in fact, the impact of the screen is very big.

A lot of people might be thinking, what"s the impact of the screen? It"s actually quite important. You"ll understand after you read this article. Today, let"s dig deeper into some of the "secrets" of VR displays.

Now LCD is the most common VR device screen on the market, and a few VR products use OLED screens and Mirco-OLED screens. Micro OLED is unfamiliar for VR players. Arpara 5K PC VR, the world"s first VR device, is using the micro-OLED display.

At present, the VR hamlet mostly uses "TFT-LCD" (thin film transistor liquid crystal display) technology, which consists of two glass substrates sandwiched with a layer of liquid crystal, the upper glass substrate is a color filter, and the lower glass layer is embedded with the transistor, When the electric field generated by the current passing through the transistor changes, the original rotating arrangement of the liquid crystal molecules will be reversed, which will change the rotation amplitude of the light through, and shine on the color filter in different proportions, and then generate different colors.

LCD technology has been quite mature, used in general computer and TV screens, also used in VR screens, and the cost is low, has become the basic technology of consumer products.

At present, the most fatal problem of LCD is that the liquid crystal layer can not be completely closed, so if the LCD shows black, some light will pass through the color layer, so the black of LCD is actually a gray mixture of white and black, compared to pure black.

OLED(Organic Light-emitting Diode), is based on an Organic light-emitting layer made of indium tin oxide (ITO) glass and covered with a low-work function metal electrode on the light-emitting layer. According to the driving mode, OLED includes AMOLED and PMOLED.

We know that the color of the screen is displayed by pixels, and it takes time for pixels to change from color 1 to color 2. This time is called grayscale response time.

If the gray-scale response time is too long, the pixel in images fast sliding too late that resulting from the color 1 to 2 in the picture, will appear on the vision ghosting, ghosting extremely influence visual perception, the OLED screen is almost without any delay, and the LCD screen, even if it is apple"s top LCD, have a longer response time.

OLED is not the same as LCD screens with black color. Because OLED displays black, the pixels in the black area can be turned off directly to achieve an almost pure black effect. In contrast, OLEDs have excellent contrast and lower power consumption.

To sum up OLED color characters in one sentence: OLED is an oil painting, with pure and delicate colors, while LCD is a watercolor painting, with hazy and light colors. I think people can tell the difference between a high-end OLED and an LCD at a glance.

Although OLED presents a bright picture, has low power consumption, and can be bent, the organic materials will be oxidized, so the life is relatively short, and the color-burning problem does occur. Coupled with the high cost and high technology content, it is mostly suitable for small screens, such as mobile phone screens. In recent years, a handful of VR helmets have used OLED screens.

Mrico-Oled is a new high-level microdisplay technology. Micro OLEDs (silicon-based) consist of organic light-emitting materials sandwiched between two electrodes, diodes that emit light when an electric current flows through them. The desired color is then generated through the filter. The micro OLED light source module is generated by depositing the OLED onto the substrate using vapor deposition.

For example, to produce silicon-based OLED modules, OLED is deposited onto a silicon substrate or semiconductor wafer. In addition to being self-luminous like OLED, micro-OLED help makes thinner, smaller, and more energy-efficient panels. Their shorter response times and higher luminous efficiency also enable the production of high PPI(pixels per inch) displays.

Micro OLED microdisplay devices have the advantages of OLED self-lighting, thin, light, large viewing Angle, short response time, and high luminescence efficiency. Moreover, it is easier to achieve the application effect of high PPI (pixel density), small size, easy to carry, and low power consumption, which is especially suitable for near-eye display devices.

Although VR products on the market have been developed for many years, due to immature technology, they are prone to dizziness, have low resolution, are large in size, expensive. To avoid vertigo, the screen resolution had to be raised from 500 PPI to 2,000 PPI. Micro-OLEDs meet the needs of VR headsets and lenses. Therefore, after years of polishing, Arpara chose to launch the world"s first VR device based on micro-OLED display technology - Arpara 5K PC VR.

As we said earlier, micro-OLED uses pixel self-lighting technology to easily achieve a wide range of colors. For example, our Arpara 5K VR with Mirco-OLED screen covers 90% of the DCI-P3 range, which is the standard for evaluating display capabilities in the film industry. It can reflect the color expression of the product when watching film and television content.

The following figure shows the corresponding color space of the Arpara 5K VR screen, which is highly identical to the DCI-P3 standard color space. The area ratio reaches 94% DCI-P3, and the coverage reaches 90%.

Pixels are small, individually lit elements that are emitted in an array to create a display. For various reasons, pixels sometimes have difficulty packing tightly together, and this causes the gaps between them to not light up. The "fill factor" of the display describes the ratio of the actual lit area to the unlit area. On a display with a low fill coefficient, the user is easy to perceive the dark space between pixels, which leads to the screen effect.

To reduce the screen effect, the filling coefficient should be increased, and at the same time, the pixel density should be increased to minimize the absolute value of the gap between pixels.

Let"s go back and mention the comparison of the previous three screens. For LCD screen, there is a high density of LCD display, but because the LCD display device is a transparent type, its pixel driving circuit can only be placed in a pixel gap, this leads to a certain gap between pixels to place the drive circuit, so even if the high-resolution LCD screen, also cannot avoid the Screen Door Effect. The picture below is an example of a square RGB arrangement of LCD pixels, in which the black part is the driving circuit part (the picture is a schematic, in fact, we need to make a better look, please forgive me)

Relatively speaking, because the OLED material is a self-emitting device, the driver circuit can be placed on the underlying substrate, so there is no dark spot of the driver circuit between pixels.

For large-size OLED screens such as AMOLED, the current fill coefficient is still low, so there are blank areas between the screen pixels, as shown below:

The Micro OLED technology selected by Arpara can well control the pixel gap and greatly increase the pixel filling ratio. The schematic diagram is as follows:

Then again, micro-OLED has a big advantage in the small display market. As the applications of VR and AR displays gradually shift from gaming and military fields to healthcare, education, retail, and other fields, the market continues to expand, and more and more consumers demands resolution and avoidance of display lag. In this case, researchers will start to develop a new generation of display technology with high resolution, high brightness, high contrast, and fast response. At present, micro-OLED is most widely used in military, industrial and medical fields. VR is likely to be the next big thing.

If you’re designing a display application or deciding what type of TV to get, you’ll probably have to choose between an OLED or LCD as your display type.

LCDs utilize liquid crystals that produce an image when light is passed through the display. OLED displays generate images by applying electricity to organic materials inside the display.OLED and LCD Main Difference:

graphics and images visible. This is the reason you’re still able to see light coming through on images that are meant to be dark on an LCD monitor, display, or television.

OLEDs by comparison, deliver a drastically higher contrast by dynamically managing their individual pixels. When an image on an OLED display uses the color black, the pixel shuts off completely and renders a much higher contrast than that of LCDs.OLED vs LCD - Who is better at contrast?

Having a high brightness level is important if your display is going to be used in direct sunlight or somewhere with high ambient brightness. The display"s brightness level isn"t as important if it’s going to be used indoors or in a low light setting.OLED vs LCD - Who is better at Brightness?

Have you ever looked at a screen from an angle and noticed that the images became washed out or shadowy? The further away you get from the “front and center” view, the worse the image appears to be. This is an example of viewing angles in action – the wider the viewing angle, the better the images on screen will appear as you view them from different vantage points.

This means the display is much thinner than LCD displays and their pixels are much closer to the surface of the display, giving them an inherently wider viewing angle.

You’ll often notice images becoming distorted or losing their colors when tilting an LCD or when you view it from different angles. However, many LCDs now include technology to compensate for this – specifically In-Plane Switching (IPS).

LCDs with IPS are significantly brighter than standard LCDs and offer viewing angles that are on-par with OLEDs.OLED vs LCD - Who is better at Viewing Angles?

LCDs have been on the market much longer than OLEDs, so there is more data to support their longevity. On average LCDs have proven to perform for around 60,000 hours (2,500) days of operation.

With most LCDs you can expect about 7 years of consistent performance. Some dimming of the backlight has been observed but it is not significant to the quality of the display.

OLEDs are a newer technology in the display market, which makes them harder to fully review. Not only does OLED technology continue to improve at a rapid pace, but there also hasn’t been enough time to thoroughly observe their performance.

You must also consider OLED’s vulnerability to image burn-in. The organic material in these displays can leave a permanent afterimage on the display if a static image is displayed for too long.

So depending on how your OLED is used, this can greatly affect its lifespan. An OLED being used to show static images for long periods of time will not have the same longevity as one displaying dynamic, constantly moving images.OLED vs LCD - Which one last longer?

There is not yet a clear winner when it comes to lifespans between LCD and OLED displays. Each have their advantages depending on their use-cases. It’s a tie!

For a display application requiring the best colors, contrast, and viewing angles – especially for small and lightweight wearable devices – we would suggest an OLED display.

OLED is the display technology that has everyone talking. Considering the inky shadows, vivid highlights, and lifelike colors that these panels can produce, it’s no wonder. For 2022, we’re offering this coveted display tech across a wide range of our ProArt Studiobook, Zenbook, and Vivobook families of laptops. From our affordable everyday laptops to our premium, luxury machines, you’ll find an OLED-equipped laptop that fits your needs and budget. So what sets these displays apart from the competition? Here, we’ll break down the LCD vs. OLED debate so that you can pick the best laptop for your needs.

If you bought a high-end smartphone in recent years, you likely already have an example of this premium panel tech ready to hand. Ever wonder why photos and videos seem to look better on your phone than your old laptop? That could be because OLED displays excel at producing lifelike images with vibrant colors and striking contrast.

Both LCD and OLED displays create the image on your screen using millions of individual pixels. However, on standard LCDs, those pixels are illuminated by an always-on backlight, usually an array of large LEDs, that light up the entire screen at once. It’s an efficient arrangement, but it hinders a display’s ability to produce inky shadows, since the black pixels still have some light behind them. On an OLED display, however, there is no backlight—instead, each pixel acts as its own light source, and can be turned on or off independently of the others. This means that black portions of an image can be truly black, because there’s no light source shining through behind them.

OLED panels also excel at displaying vibrant, lifelike colors. Typically, they offer wide color gamut coverage comparable with the color production of expensive studio-grade monitors. Between the intense colors, inky shadows, and striking highlights, OLED panels deliver an image that leaps off the screen. For media of all kinds, you’ll see the difference right away.

For folks who often use their laptops in well-lit rooms full of natural light, a display with a high peak brightness is crucial. Our Vivobook Pro 16X OLED, for example, offers a 550-nit peak brightness so that you can comfortably use the laptop wherever, whenever.

But a display’s low-light performance matters, too. You probably turn down the brightness when you’re in a dimly lit bedroom to conserve battery life—and so it doesn’t sear your eyes when you open a website with a white background. Unfortunately for LCD displays, their contrast and color production often suffer at low brightness levels, leading to a washed-out image where it’s hard to distinguish one color from another. An LCD might only cover 11% of the DCI-P3 color gamut at its lowest brightness setting. To make matters worse, many LCDs introduce distracting, annoying flicker at low brightness levels due to their use of pulse-width modulation (PWM) techniques.

OLED panels, on the other hand, shine in this scenario. Much more than LCDs, they can deliver the vibrant colors and striking contrast that makes your content immersive and text easy to read. ASUS OLED panels maintain 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage at both high and low brightness levels, giving you accurate, lifelike colors across the board. Our OLED panels are certified for flicker-free performance by TÜV Rheinland, too. For comfortable use in a wide range of scenarios, OLED panels are the way to go.

When many of us think about using our laptop, we imagine ourselves sitting directly in front of the screen. While this is how folks commonly use a laptop, it’s not the entire story. You’ve probably watched a movie on your laptop with a loved one, collaborated with a classmate on a project, or followed an online recipe as you cooked dinner. Look at an LCD display from a sharp angle, as you likely had to do in any of these instances, and you’ll often see an ugly, color-shifted image.

This is another circumstance where OLED panels stand out from the other options. While some types of LEDs, notably IPS panels, offer wide viewing angles, OLED displays tend to offer wider viewing angles than even the best LEDs. With an OLED-equipped laptop, you’ll always have a clear view of the screen, even in those regular moments when you’re not looking at it straight-on.

An LCD display has a single, always-on backlight that emits broad-spectrum white light similar to what you see during the daytime. That’s fine during typical working hours, but prolonged exposure to blue wavelengths in the evening hours can disrupt your circadian rhythm and make it harder for you to fall asleep.* That’s why we offer a range of Eye Care monitors that give you tools for reducing your exposure to blue light.

Another option is an OLED display. Since each pixel in an OLED panel is its own light source, these displays automatically emit less blue light than LCD options under almost all conditions—about 70% less, compared with standard LCD displays.** You’ll be much more able to browse your TikTok feed or catch a show before bedtime without throwing off your sleep schedule. And your eyes will get fatigued more slowly when you use your PC, making you better able to finish a creative project while you’re still feeling the inspiration.

There are LCD displays that deliver a credible HDR experience, but OLED displays are a more natural fit for the content. The infinite contrast of an OLED display lets you have a brightly shining pixel right next to a perfectly black one, perfect for displaying high-contrast scenes. Bright stars in the infinite blackness of space, fireworks bursting across a night sky, and the sun setting behind a natural landscape never looked so good as they do on an OLED display. Look for laptops with Dolby Vision support and a VESA DisplayHDR 400 True Black or DisplayHDR 500 True Black certification to ensure the best experience.

That said, you certainly can get an LCD display that’s primed and ready for HDR. Our ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 includes a display option with a full-array local-dimming (FALD) backlight comprising 512 Mini LEDs that approximate the contrast ratio that an OLED panel can achieve. On top of that, it offers an 1100-nit peak brightness and a VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certification. That increased high-end luminance means that you can see more detail in bright images than you would on an HDR display with lower peak brightness.

When you’re watching an action movie, cheering on your favorite athletes during March Madness, playing a round of Fortnite with your friends, or simply tracking the movement of your mouse cursor across the screen as you get some work done, the clarity of moving objects on your display matters. The key spec here is response time. Each pixel on any display takes a small but noticeable amount of time to transition from one color to the next. On a display with poor response time, this appears as a distracting blur that resolves and goes away when the image stops moving. Our OLED panels offer an exceptional 0.2ms response time that gives you absolute clarity in moving images. Comparable LCD displays can take up to 10ms to switch colors.

It’s not just the sharpness of any given image that’s improved by low response time. The accuracy of any given pixel is affected, as well. A typical 60Hz panel refreshes the content on the screen every 16.67 milliseconds. If a pixel takes 10ms to transition to the correct color, then it only actually spends 6.67ms displaying the correct color. A pixel that only needs 0.2ms to transition to the correct color displays that color for almost the entirety of the refresh cycle. Whether you’re watching an action-packed movie, cheering on your favorite sports team, or digging into a great nature documentary, you’ll see a clear image throughout instead of blurry motion.

However, not all LCD displays are built the same. Purchase a gaming laptop equipped with one of our ROG Nebula Displays, and you’ll enjoy a speedy 3ms response time. What’s more, LCD panels are capable of reaching refresh rates that OLED can’t currently match. Our ROG Strix SCAR laptops, for example, can be equipped with a lightning-quick 360Hz display. If you’re shopping for a laptop primarily for fast-paced competitive gaming, a high-refresh-rate LCD display is likely a better fit for you. Click here to read about our different families of gaming laptops.

As you read articles about OLED displays and watch reviews on YouTube, you might notice people talking about “burn-in.” More accurately known as image retention, this is a type of image distortion that can occur when users display static images or on-screen elements at peak brightness levels uninterrupted for many hours, if not days, at a time. Most folks simply don’t use their monitors in this way, so in real-world usage, you can purchase a laptop with an OLED display with the confidence that you’re unlikely to encounter image retention issues. For additional peace of mind, check out the results of a long-term uniformity test conducted by a trusted independent media outlet.

To provide an additional layer of protection against image retention, we include a suite of ASUS OLED Care settings in the easy-to-use MyASUS app. Pixel refresh launches a special screen saver when your display has been idle for 30 minutes that refreshes your screen pixels and optimizes picture quality. Pixel shift moves display pixels almost invisibly to help make sure that static images aren’t constantly displayed on your desktop. And we make it easy to adjust your Windows taskbar settings so that this static display element doesn’t cause any long-term image retention issues.

Some best practices can give you even more assurance that your OLED display will deliver a pristine image over the expected lifetime of the device—and they’re things that you’d likely already do with your laptop anyway. It’s prudent to have the display turn off due to inactivity after a certain amount of time. Rather than leave the brightness level at maximum constantly, it’s a good idea to dial back the display brightness to best fit the surrounding ambient light. Both of these prudent measures help extend battery life, as well, so you likely do these things with your laptops anyway. Finally, our OLED-equipped laptops ship with Dark Mode enabled in Windows by default so that static UI elements aren’t unnecessarily bright.

For most users, an OLED panel is a better fit than an LCD panel. The infinite contrast these displays provide make them more comfortable to use in a wide range of applications. Whether you’re connecting with friends on social media, skimming through your email, watching the latest show, or just browsing your favorite sites, an OLED panel will elevate your experience. Ultra-wide viewing angles let you share any of these things with family, friends, coworkers, and clients. And the list goes on—this display option sets you up for immersive HDR media, takes care of your eyes with its reduced blue light emission, and gives you exceptional clarity in moving images.

There are folks out there for whom LCD panels are a superior choice. Gamers, in particular, benefit from the sky-high refresh rates and ever-lowering response times afforded by LCDs. And those who want an HDR experience augmented by the absolute highest peak brightness levels may prefer an LCD equipped with an ultra-bright FALD backlight.

For just about everyone else, the advantages of OLED panels make them the clear winner of the LCD vs. OLED debate. For too long, display aficionados had to hunt for devices equipped with this class-leading tech. Now, we’re offering OLED panels across a wide range of laptops.

Looking for a highly portable laptop with a detachable keyboard? Check out the eminently affordable Vivobook 13 Slate OLED. Need a blend of performance, portability, and elegance? The Zenbook Flip 14 OLED gives you muscular performance with its AMD Ryzen 5000-series CPU. For creators, we have a wide range of laptops equipped with OLED panels. Click here to learn more. For every budget, need, and preference, we have an OLED laptop ready and waiting. Find your next laptop today.

OLED displays are commonplace on all high-end phones, tablets, smartwatches, televisions, and even many of the many budget phones. However, there isn"t one type of OLED technology. Depending on your device, you may have an OLED, AMOLED, or POLED display.

OLED promises inky blacks, high contrast, low response times, and incredible brightness. There are a few downsides (primarily the burn-in phenomenon), but overall it"s the best screen technology you"ll find. We explain the background behind the acronyms, the difference between POLED and AMOLED, and which is better, helping you choose the right phone.

Before we get into the differences between the types of OLED screens, let"s look at the similarities. Regardless of your OLED device, whether a laptop or a smartphone, there are some standard fundamentals.

Every OLED screen comprises millions of diodes, hence the name organic light-emitting diode. Viewed under a microscope, each screen consists of a series of red, green, and blue diodes that can be individually turned on and off. Behind this, the light-emitting pixels of an OLED display emit blue and yellow light. The yellow and blue light combine to form white light, passing through the red, green, and blue subpixels to produce a single pixel. Because each pixel handles its light and color, OLED displays do not need a separate backlight.

As an OLED screen doesn"t need a backlight, black is produced by turning off the pixels, resulting in deep, consistent blacks. This allows manufacturers to implement things like an always-on display without quickly burning through battery life.

Another critical advantage of OLED tech is high contrast ratios. Technically, OLED displays offer "infinite contrast," or 1,000,000:1 contrast ratios. This is because OLED displays reproduce black by turning off pixels entirely, and contrast is measured by comparing the brightest part of the screen to the darkest part. Improved contrast makes on-screen content more vivid and makes bright highlights look more impressive. This also means that OLED screens can reach higher brightness than the best IPS LCD screens.

OLED displays can display more colors with greater color accuracy than their LCD peers. This is great for photographers and videographers using their phones to preview, edit, and create content.

OLED displays have near-instantaneous pixel response times. Older LCD screens often have lower response times because to change from one color to another, they must physically change the orientation of a liquid crystal, which takes time. An OLED display turns a subpixel on or off with an electrical charge, giving them a faster pixel response time.

The omission of a separate backlight and the use of fewer components means OLED displays can be thinner than LCDs, making them more versatile in their applications. This means they are more fragile and prone to damage in high-impact or high-stress situations. Engineers combat this by using technologies like Gorilla Glass and robust metal frames. Mitigation strategies like these raise the cost of OLED screens.

OLED displays can also be transparent, depending on the materials used. Transparent displays are helpful for in-display fingerprint readers and under-display cameras, which allow manufacturers to design smartphones with fewer and smaller bezels, notches, and display cutouts. When notches and cutouts are necessary, OLED displays have more even brightness around those cutouts and notches compared with LCDs, where the backlight has to make it around the cutout, and things get a little messy.

Of particular import to smartphones, OLED displays often consume less power, especially when displaying dark images or UI elements, thanks to the pixel-level regulation of brightness. However, at max brightness, an OLED screen usually uses more power than an equivalent LCD.

As with any new technology, OLED tech is not without its flaws.OLED displays are prone to degradation from age and UV exposure, resulting from the organic nature of the molecules that make up the diodes. The organic nature of OLED displays also leads to a phenomenon called screen burn-in, where static UI elements like menus, navigation bars, and status bars (elements that are on-screen for long periods) leave a permanent ghost image, even when they are not displayed. However, burn-in has been somewhat mitigated by pixel shifting and technological advancements in recent years.

Early OLED screens placed all the organic materials on a glass substrate. However, glass is rigid, so a flexible plastic substrate is needed to create foldable display screens, leading to the creation of POLED screens.

POLED (polymer organic light-emitting diode) offers advantages in terms of durability and versatility. The replacement ofglass substrates with plastic ones makes them more shock-resistant. Another unique advantage is in the implementation. Designers can reduce bezel size by folding the electronics underneath an edge of the display instead of having it be on the same plane. POLED displays are also significantly thinner than OLED displays with glass substrates.

Note the difference between P OLED and pOLED. pOLED is the trademark that LG Display uses to brand its plastic OLED displays. It produces these displays for a variety of applications and companies. Google used pOLED displays on the Pixel 2 XL, LG used them on theLG Velvet and several wearables,and Apple reportedly used LG pOLED displays on some Apple Watch models. LG"s pOLED displays seem to suffer from an increased risk of burn-in, as users of the Google Pixel 2 XL complained of burn-in after a few months of use.

To get to the resolution and size of a phone, an AMOLED screen (active matrix organic light emitting diode) is needed. Older, passive matrix OLED displays (PMOLED) require higher voltages for higher pixels/resolutions. The higher the voltage, the lower the screen"s lifetime.

Thin-film transistor (TFT) arrays used in modern active-matrix OLED displays control the charging of the display"s storage capacitors. These TFTs control current flow, resulting in more energy-efficient OLED panels than PMOLED displays. This allows a larger display size without compromising resolution, lifetime, or power consumption.

QLED isn"t related to OLED displays—despite what the name may suggest—but it"s often slated as a competitor to OLED, and it aims to replace the technology by targeting both OLED"s successes and failures. QLED stands for quantum dot light-emitting diode. The core principle of QLED technology is the same as a regular OLED. A backlight is passed through red, green, and blue subpixel layers to generate an image. However, the backlight isn"t one large, uniformly-lit layer. Instead, QLED displays use an array of tiny individually-controlled LEDs to supply the backlight. Using individually-controlled LEDs means the display can produce a more accurate image with a higher contrast.

Generally speaking, QLED displays have similar benefits to OLED displays—high peak brightness, high contrast, perfect blacks, and good saturation. Still, they lack some OLED advantages, like image retention and reduced overall and sustained brightness.

QLED is found in TVs and large computer monitors because that"s where it sees the most benefit. OLED displays in phones are small enough, bright enough, and cheap enough that QLED wouldn"t be able to compete or offer any practical benefit to the end user.

Resolution is the number of pixels a screen has. It is usually written as a ratio: pixels on the long side by pixels on the short side, for example, 1920 x 1080. Most smartphone displays have a resolution between 720p (1280 x 720) on the low-end and 4k (3480 x 2160) on some Sony models. While 4k is excessive and rare for anything under 15 inches, 720p, 1080p, and 1440p are all common smartphone resolutions.

The ideal smartphone screen resolution depends on the screen size. A metric called pixels per inch (PPI) describes the display"s number of pixels in a vertical or horizontal inch. For a 6-inch display, you should aim for at least 1080p or above 350 PPI. This will ensure that the text is crisp.

So why do manufacturers use odd-pixel layouts? It depends on the manufacturer and its goals. Samsung uses PenTile displays, which use RGBG instead of RGB subpixels, to combat image retention on its AMOLED displays. WRGB displays add a separate white subpixel to boost brightness on OLED displays—a technology that is otherwise notoriously dim.

There are reasons for these odd layouts. PenTile, for example, increases the number of green subpixels to reduce the effect of burn-in and increase panel lifespan. Still, many people are sensitive to the decreased resolution and clarity that often results from unorthodox subpixel layouts. Part of these resolution problems lies in subpixel antialiasing, which works on a subpixel basis to smooth out text and on-screen elements. Some do this better than others, which is why an iPhone 13"s screen seems sharper than the competition. However, even Samsung acknowledges that PenTile layouts suffer in terms of resolution and clarity.

Response times on OLED displays are generally lower, meaning displays can reach these high refresh rates and look better at these higher refresh rates thanks to the reduced ghosting.

Smartphones are often used outside in bright sunlight, so display brightness is a huge factor. Display brightness is measured in nits or cd/m². Peak brightness is the momentary maximum brightness of a small portion of a screen, while sustained brightness is a more realistic representation of the brightness of the whole display. Aim for above 600 nits of sustained brightness since anything below may cause legibility issues in bright conditions. On the other hand, brightness is measured logarithmically, not linearly, meaning 1,200 nits is only twice as bright as 300 nits. This is important since many manufacturers lean heavily on high brightness metrics as a marketing point.

Display specifications are no different. While it is true that OLED displays may be the best option for some people, they command a premium, and a lot of people wouldn"t notice the difference.

Brightness, refresh rate, and resolution are all key factors, and performance as a whole should be the determining factor in selecting a display, not the shiny new technology involved. If you"re looking for a phone with an OLED display and a high refresh rate, check out the best Android phones you can buy.

We often get asked, "What"s your smallest display?". Crystalfontz specializes in small displays, in fact the majority of our displays are smaller than 5". To make it easier for you to find the smallest lcd display, we"ve compiled this list of the most tiny displays we have.

All screens flicker to some degree — be they TV screens, car navigation displays, monitors, tablets, and yes, even smartphone displays. In this article, we will talk a little about what flicker is, what can cause it (on smartphones in particular), and how we at DXOMARK test for it, quantify it, and measure its impact on the end-user experience.

Given the ubiquity of smartphones, it is unfortunate that the flicker on their displays (especially OLED displays) is still an issue for many people. But wait! Why do they flicker? Well, let’s remember that smartphone display hardware is based on either LCD (liquid crystal display) or OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology. LCDs don’t emit their own light; rather, they are back-illuminated by a strip of LEDs whose light intensity is quite powerful so as to compensate for the brightness drop due to the low transmission rate of the LCD panel (caused mainly by the RGB color filter). By contrast, in an OLED display, every pixel is itself an OLED that produces its own light.

Since both LCDs and OLED smartphone displays are composed of light-emitting diodes, let’s describe how these diodes are driven. Because of a diode’s intrinsic physical properties, it cannot be dimmed by changing the intensity of the current (mA) without impacting the color of the light. So how do phone manufacturers dim displays? They make use of a technique called pulse-width modulation (PWM), which means that they turn the diodes off and on at varying rates. Because we normally should not be able to see this switching between off and on (in other words, the flicker!), our brains are fooled into perceiving the screen as simply dimmer overall (a phenomenon known as the “brain averaging effect”). How dim depends on how long the diodes are off versus how long they are on: the longer they’re off, the dimmer the screen will appear.

So both LCDs and OLED displays power their light sources differently, but both technologies are subject to flicker effect; however, it is usually more noticeable on OLED displays than on LCDs. For one thing, OLED displays and LCDs show PWM at different frequency ranges — the PWM of OLED displays range from ~50 to ~500 Hz, whereas the PWM of LCDs starts at around 1000 Hz or higher. Second, as the human eye may experience flicker sensitivity up to about 250 Hz (at least for most people), it should come as no surprise that OLED displays are more likely to cause eyestrain than LCDs.

A significant disadvantage to using PWM technology can be that when a display adjusts to its minimum brightness in very dim or completely dark ambient light conditions, the duty cycle is very short and the interval when the diode is off is proportionately much longer (for example, minimum brightness may translate to a 10% duty cycle, meaning that the diode is off for 90% of the period). At lower PWM frequencies, flicker can become much more noticeable, which helps explain why reading text or watching videos in bed at night is more likely to cause headaches and eyestrain than when viewing screens in brighter conditions.

The video below was shot with a Phantom VEO-E 340L camera at 1500 fps (as were the other videos further below), slowed down to 4 fps to show display pulse-width modulation (PWM) — the white areas separated by black lines that extend across the screen when brightness diminishes at regular intervals. You can see the difference between the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G on the left, which has a medium duty cycle (around 60%), and the Huawei P40 Pro and the Oppo Find X2 Pro, which have long duty cycles (roughly 90%; the black lines show that the OLEDs