There are many display types used in smartphones: LCD, OLED, AMOLED, Super AMOLED, TFT, IPS and a few others that are less frequently found on smartphones nowadays, like TFT-LCD.

One of the most frequently found on mid-to-high range phones now is IPS-LCD which is also found on the latest Camon 15 Series. But what do these all mean?

LCD
LCD means Liquid Crystal Display, and its name refers to the array of liquid crystals illuminated by a backlight, and their ubiquity and relatively low-cost makes them a popular choice for smartphones and many other devices.
LCDs also tend to perform quite well in direct sunlight, as the entire display is illuminated from behind, and also produce kind of natural and vibrant images compared to AMOLED screens.

IPS stands for In-Plane Switching and it is a further improvement on TFT LCDs. It delivers better color reproduction and, most notably, improved viewing angles compared to TFT-LCDs. It does this by using two transistors for each pixel combined with a more powerful backlight. The downside is that they require more power than other types of non-LCD display. They still generally use less power than a TFT display though.


AMOLED
AMOLED stands for Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode. While this may sound complicated it actually isn't. We already encountered the active matrix in TFT LCD technology, and OLED is simply a term for another thin-film display technology.
This means that OLED displays have much purer blacks and consume less energy when black or darker colors are displayed on-screen. However, lighter-colored themes on AMOLED screens use considerably more power than an LCD using the same theme. OLED screens are also more expensive to produce than LCD.

Thanks so much for this... It is quite enlightening

Kayconcept2:
This finally clears my mind about the contending issue of the screen used on the new Camon 15. Good explanation.

Who ask you
Transsion marketer spotted.

Karex81:

Who ask you
Transsion marketer spotted.

I highly commend him for using pointless terms like he is actually interested in a product not a marketer. But we all know him already

Nice thread. Some of us use phones without knowing the make up or some important features of the phone.

Nice thread op. Thanks for this.

Kayconcept2:
This finally clears my mind about the contending issue of the screen used on the new Camon 15. Good explanation.

apart from the Camon 15 that uses an IPS LCD screen, which other device uses that?

Nice one

andelawhite:
Nice thread. Some of us use phones without knowing the make up or some important features of the phone.

exactly

How many accounts does this OP have for crying out loud