Last year, the high refresh rate screen is still a major selling point, when a 120Hz screen refresh rate release, everyone’s reaction is the same “awesome! If a flagship phone is released without mentioning the screen refresh rate, everyone’s first reaction becomes, “Oh, this screen does not even support the high refresh rate, do not buy!”
It can be said that the cell phone’s 120Hz screen has become an important direction for future development, everyone’s point of view such a shift this is why?
01 “Silky smooth” experience 120Hz advantage is visible to the naked eye
In the last year, we can still say that the mainstream cell phone screen refresh rate of 60Hz, but this year, 90Hz refresh rate screen new machine pile up, 120Hz screen become the mainstream flagship machine, so for consumers, high refresh rate screen good where?
More intuitive is a second to refresh 60 images, 90Hz refresh rate screen can refresh 90 images a second, to 120Hz, a second to display the screen is twice 60Hz. More screens available for transition, can bring more smooth and coherent screen display effect, which is also a high refresh rate screen can bring us the most direct visual changes.
For the average user, you can feel the benefits of a high refresh rate screen in scenarios such as sliding and animation zoom.
For example, in the desktop, microblogging and other use scenarios when sliding, the content moves more smoothly and coherently, looks comfortable and natural. As you can see from the above slow-motion comparison between the normal 60Hz screen and the 120Hz screen, the 120Hz screen is much smoother and more coherent when sliding. This smooth experience will run through most daily use scenarios, and the actual experience will be related to optimization.
02 screen supplier technology maturity screen upgrade has never stopped
Speaking of high refresh rate, here you must not get around a big factory – Samsung. At present, the world’s two largest suppliers of cell phone screens, one is Samsung, one is China’s BOE. Samsung has always been the industry leader in screen display, and most of the 120Hz refresh rate cell phones on the market, the screen supply is Samsung Electronics.
OLED screen light-emitting principle
In the supply of high refresh rate screen, Samsung’s major advantage lies in its high quality OLED screen. Currently on the market, 120Hz refresh rate in addition to the OLED screen produced by Samsung, there are some LED screens. the biggest difference between LCD screen and AMOLED screen is that the former is by the LCD panel light, while the latter is organic self-luminous. Due to the LCD inversion problem, resulting in LCD screen response time is significantly higher than the OLED screen, so even if the LCD screen refresh rate to 120Hz, it will make the high refresh rate brings a sense of smoothness discount.
As Samsung’s latest flagship model, the masterpiece of Samsung technology, the Samsung S20 Ultra was released after the well-known screen testing agency DisplayMate also quickly did a test of the product’s screen, the test results were not unexpected, this product has by far the best screen in the smartphone.
From the Samsung S20 Ultra we can also see the advantage of Samsung in screen display, and this lead is difficult to surpass, because Samsung has occupied the core position in the OLED screen supply chain. Even top giants like Apple use Samsung’s screens, and the screens Samsung uses on its own products are definitely better than those provided to other brands.
Screen test
As a screen supply chain occupies the core position of Samsung, in the research and development of high refresh rate has never stopped. displayMate mentioned that since 2010 began testing OLED display, Samsung has been systematically improving the screen display performance of each generation of products, and never seen the state of standing still in Samsung.
03 high frame rate ecology + supply chain capacity two-way drive 120Hz will become mainstream
Called 120Hz screen to become the future direction of development and a big reason is that, even with a high refresh rate screen, sometimes can not experience the advantages of high refresh rate, after all, if the program does not support the high frame rate, in addition to the game on the smoothness of considerations, many programs currently have restrictions on the frame rate, this situation can not play the advantages of high refresh rate screen.
120Hz screen frame rate test during daily use
Of course, it is generally the hardware that keeps up first, and with the release of more phones with 120Hz refresh rate, the application ecology of 120 fps will also keep up. At present, “” already supports 120Hz, “Peace Elite” and other mainstream games also already support 90Hz high frame rate mode, with smoother game graphics in high frame rate mode. In the future, the program already supports higher refresh rates, but because of the limitations of the cell phone hardware can not get the best experience, it must be said that it is also a pity.
Of course, to say that in 2020 the high refresh rate screen can be popularized, become the standard cell phone, the biggest reason lies in with the technological breakthrough, the upstream supply chain capacity has been improved – screen giant Samsung has a mature high refresh rate screen manufacturing process. The maturity of the supply chain, technical problems overcome, production capacity, all pave the way for the popularity of high refresh rate screen, so the popularity of high refresh rate screen has become an inevitable process.
04 One last comment
Whether it is the upstream supply chain, or the user experience, and the gradually improving 120Hz ecology, the high refresh rate screen has become a mainstream trend, which is a happy thing for consumers.
For the cell phone industry, the previous high refresh rate can be said to be a “differentiation” selling point, but in the future, 120Hz start, high refresh rate will become the standard for mainstream flagships. With the upstream supply chain production capacity in the near future, mid-range products will also be equipped with a high refresh rate screen starting at 120Hz as standard, a high refresh rate high frame rate ecology is on the way.
