14 DAY TRIAL // There are plenty of rumors regarding the screen of the upcoming iPhone 7, and although it’s clearly too early to tell which of these are accurate and which are not, more speculation emerges almost on a daily basis.
This time, the display experts at DisplayMate tell us that the iPhone 7 could come with a screen technology similar to the one on the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. And this is exciting news for everyone planning to buy an iPhone 7 for one simple reason: the smaller iPad Pro comes with the best LCD screen currently available out there.
At this point, it’s generally said that the Samsung Galaxy S7 is the phone with the best display out there, but it appears that the 9.7-inch iPad Pro is actually even better. However, it’s worth mentioning that the two aren’t part of the same class, as one is a phone and the other one is a tablet.
iPhone expected to move to OLED next year
According to DisplayMate, the tech found on the smaller iPad Pro is even better than the one on the original iPad Pro with a 12.9-inch display thanks to screen reflectance.
“Very innovative low reflectance screen that reflects just 1.7% of the ambient light by using a new anti-reflection AR coating. It has by far the lowest low screen reflectance of any mobile display, so its image colors and contrast in high ambient light will appear considerably better than any other mobile display,” DisplayMate’s Raymond Soneira said when talking about the 9.7-inch display on the small iPad Pro.
“Since Apple likes to expand new technology across its product lines, an educated guess for the upcoming iPhone 7 is that its display could be a small version of the iPad Pro 9.7,” he continued.
While Soneira suggests that using the same display tech on the iPhone 7 would simply make sense, he also has a reason Apple should really go for it. At this point, the Galaxy S7’s screen reflectance is said to be at 4.6 percent, similar to the one of the iPhone 6s, but with the 9.7-inch iPad Pro improvements coming to a smaller size factor, Apple’s device could drop to as low as 1.7 percent.
The iPhone 7 is projected to launch in September this year, so Apple still has enough time to work on its display tech. For what it’s worth, the company’s expected to make the switch to OLED screens with the 2017 iPhone.