The Best Windows Tablet Display Does it Come From Microsoft

The Best Windows Tablet Display Does it Come From Microsoft

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The Best Windows Tablet Display Does it Come From Microsoft

Now A new generation of Windows tablets has arrived with the launch of the Microsoft Surface 2, their second generation tablet, and the Nokia Lumia 2520, Nokia's first ever tablet. With virtually identical functionality and OS software, it is the quality and performance of their displays that really differentiates the tablets.

Microsoft's original Surface RT launched in October 2012 had a display similar to the older Apple iPad 2, with a resolution of 1366x768 pixels and a small Color Gamut with just 57% of the Standard Gamut needed for accurate color reproduction. That was a notch down from Apple's existing iPad 3, with a much higher 2048x1536 resolution, a much higher almost perfect 99% full Color Gamut, and an excellent calibration that produced sharp, accurate, and beautiful image and picture quality. The new Surface 2 has moved up to a Full HD 1920x1080 resolution, which guarantees sharp images—but what else (if anything) has been improved?

The Lumia 2520 also has a similar 1920x1080 full HD display that is 10.1 inches, half an inch smaller than the Surface 2. However, just like their Smartphones, Nokia is emphasizing the display's performance in high ambient light with "Enhanced outdoor readability," most likely indicating a very bright and low reflectance screen. This could a significant development because most existing tablets suffer from mediocre degraded performance in ambient light, an issue that we will analyze below.

In addition to displaying sharp text and graphics, tablets are frequently used for viewing multimedia content, so there are many other equally important and even more challenging issues for tablet displays besides sharpness:

1) Picture quality as good or better than your HDTV (to entice you to watch downloaded TV and movie content).
2) Excellent true color accuracy and accurate image contrast for high fidelity photos and images for all content.
3) Improved screen performance in high ambient light since Tablets aren't used in the dark