If you’re in the market for a small tablet, you could do worse than the Kindle Fire HDX, the Nexus 7 2nd gen or the iPad Mini 2. This trio recently competed directly in a test, with the iPad Mini 2 coming last! The Mini 2 hasn’t improved on its colour gamut since last year, and there’s no image retention.
The iPad Mini has an indium-gallium-zinc oxide display. The Nexus 7 2 has a polysilicon one, and the Kindle Fire has Quantum Dots. Ray Soneria did tests on: “Objective Picture Quality, Absolute Color Accuracy, Screen Reflectance, High Ambient Light Display Performance, Peak Brightness, Contrast Ratio, Image Contrast Accuracy, Viewing Angle Performance, Display Power, and Battery Running Time.” The Mini 2 has the biggest ppi and highest resolution, but it still has the 63% colour gamut that the first Mini had.
The Nexus 7 2 and Kindle Fire HDX came joint first with scores of 100%, like the iPads 3 and 4. Soneria said:
“The new Google Nexus 7 has a very impressive display that uses the highest performance LCDs with Low Temperature Poly Silicon LTPS. The very high efficiency LTPS technology allows the new Nexus 7 display to provide a full 100 percent Color Gamut and at the same time produce the brightest Tablet display that we have measured so far in this Shoot-Out series.
Most impressive of all is the Kindle Fire HDX 7 – the first Tablet display to use super high technology Quantum Dots, which produce highly saturated primary colors that are similar to those produced by OLED displays. They not only significantly increase the Color Gamut to 100 percent but also improve the power efficiency at the same time. Quantum Dots are going to revolutionize LCDs for the next 5 + years.
And finally … the iPad mini with Retina Display unfortunately comes in with a distant 3rd place finish behind the innovative displays on the Kindle Fire HDX 7 and new Nexus 7 because it still has the same small 63 percent Color Gamut as the original iPad mini and even older iPad 2. That is inexcusable for a current generation premium Tablet. The big differences in Color Gamut between the Kindle Fire HDX 7 and Nexus 7 and the much smaller 63 percent Gamut in the iPad mini Retina Display were quite obvious and easy to see in the side-by-side Viewing Tests. “
CNET agreed that the iPad Mini 2 wasn’t offering the quality that Apple fans expect, pointing out that it doesn’t compare to the iPad Air. The Air has full SRGB cover, like the iMac and the MacBook pro. The Mini 2 has red, blue and magenta deviations, and the display is reflective. The display is also 30% less bright that the Nexus 7′s display. For films, you’re best off with the Nexus 7 2 or the Kindle Fire HDX.
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