All you Need to Know About Smartphone Screens

LCD vs OLED

LCD: Technically LCD screens have values that allow varying amounts of the backlight through to the viewer. This technology always needs backlight and requires light to produce black, white, and other colors. Apple’s iPhone 4/4S are the top-tier example for LCD Screen.

Plus: LCD screens are best known to produce most accurate colors and grays. Some mobile makers actually calibrate LCDs sometimes to produce weaker red, blue, and purple shades to save up the battery life. And LCD ages slower and maintains the brightness and color balance for thousands of hour of use.

Minus: Sucks lot of battery as it starts with an always-on backlight. Produces less brighter images when compared to OLED.

OLED: OLEDs/ AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diodes) uses a different approach where the light is needed only to produce white and other colors, black doesn’t need any light.

Plus: They consume less battery as they doesn’t need power to produce black color. The screen is much brighter and produces vibrant colors.

Minus: They overstaturates green color; gets older soon and the red and green color gets deteriorated faster than green which can lead to an imbalance in color formulation. They are expensive than LCD.