The word AMOLED Display must have been used several times by now, especially if you’re in the research stage of purchasing a new smartphone. Nowadays, one of the most important aspects in the field of smartphone technology development is the type of display. The display of a smartphone is one of the top factors used by everyone, including manufacturers and customers, to assess the level of user experience it offers.
We thought you would be interested in learning what AMOLED and Super AMOLED screens are as more and more smartphone manufacturers are choosing to include them in their most recent models. Therefore, we are sharing everything we know about what an AMOLED display is, its pros and downsides, how it compares to other display technologies, and which display is better for our eyes.
Launched in India is the Poco X4 Pro 5G with a 120Hz Super AMOLED display.
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What is an AMOLED Display?
AMOLED, or Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diodes, is a type of display technology utilised in modern smartphones as well as smartwatches, laptops, and PC monitors. One would need to first have a basic understanding of OLED in order to comprehend its functionality in improving our screen viewing experience.
In a typical LED display, the LEDs are only utilised to backlight the front-facing LCD panel, which generates colours and regulates the screen’s brightness. This is improved with OLEDs. By passing current via a different type of semi-conductive material, organic compounds, which controls colour management pixel by pixel, they create LED lights with extremely high contrast ratios and incredibly precise colour and light control.
Naturally, AMOLED advances the OLED process even further. It adds a Thin-Film Transistors (TFTs) enhanced active matrix layer that provides improved pixel-by-pixel control over the light output by OLEDs.
As Samsung states, Super AMOLED screens are AMOLED displays with integrated touch functionality. They are the newest technology available. The layer that detects touch is integrated into the screen itself rather than existing as a separate layer on top of the screen.
Benefits of an AMOLED Display
- Due to the illumination control on an individual pixel level, the colour range hence reproduced is much wider and truer. A finer colour range makes the colours of objects displayed closer to what the human eye sees naturally, giving a more life-like experience to the user than an LED display would do.
- Due to the colour range being wide, the contrast ratio provided is also greater.
- It is said to limit the energy drain, especially while displaying dark scenes like in PC games.
- AMOLED displays have comparatively thinner and lighter construction and provide wider viewing angles.
- They do not require back-lighting and have a much faster response time as compared to the traditional LCDs.
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Disadvantages of an AMOLED Display
- One of its biggest disadvantages is that its display quality degrades with time. As explained very nicely by Lenovo, this is because the organic compounds used in lighting the OLED displays tend to lose their illuminating capabilities faster than the inorganic compounds in LED-LCD displays.
- AMOLED displays are more prone to screen burn-in, owing to the overuse of some OLEDs due to the pixel-by-pixel illumination process.
- AMOLED displays are costly as compared to other display technologies.
- You cannot see an AMOLED display screen under direct sunlight.
AMOLED vs LED vs LCD: Which Display is Better For Eyes?
The battle between AMOLED, LED, and LCD displays is perpetual. Every one has advantages and disadvantages. But before deciding which is best for the eyes, it’s critical to comprehend what hurts them in the first place. Digital devices generate blue light, which is mostly to blame for all types of eye issues brought on by excessive screen time. Since the distance between our eyes and smartphone screens can be relatively close, this has an even greater influence in the case of smartphones.
Every one of the several display kinds mentioned above carries out its respective functions pretty effectively. In order to safeguard your eyesight, more attention needs to be paid to this blue light than to technology, as well as the brightness levels you are exposed to.
To prevent eye strain, it is advised to turn on the blue light filter that is built into some smartphones and to minimise the use of high brightness levels. There are even anti-glare glasses on the market that are specifically made to protect your eyesight from digital eye strain, in the event that your smartphone does not offer the blue light filter option.
Please let us know if you are aware of any further techniques that can be employed to prevent the harm that prolonged screen use can do to our eyes in the comments section below. We’d also love to know which of the aforementioned display types you prefer to utilise.
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