The best phone displays 2022

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Best Android phone displays 2022
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
- 6.8″ 1440p LTPO 12-bit HDR panel
- Most granular 1Hz-120Hz dynamic refresh rate @1440p
- Brightest 1750 nits mobile panel, best for outdoor visibility
- Active digitizer with S Pen stylus support
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This brightness is what makes the S22 Ultra display, in particular, stand out, as the granularly adaptive refresh rate has been on Oppo and OnePlus phones before it.
Oppo Find X5 Pro
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To take full advantage of its excellent display panel’s abilities, the Find X5 Pro employs a “multi-brightness color calibration,” meaning that the screen is as color-credible in all lighting conditions, be it on the beach or in the dark.
Google Pixel 6 Pro
Google managed to catch up with factory calibration and its Pixel 6 Pro display now delivers not only one of the most feature-rich panels in the Android universe – 1440p resolution, dynamic 120Hz refresh rate, and high brightness, but it is also in the top three in terms of color representation in our display benchmark database.
OnePlus 9 Pro
- 6.7″ 1440p LTPO HDR panels
- Dynamic 1Hz-120Hz refresh rate at the full 1440p resolution
- Extremely low 0.3 JNCD (Just Noticeable Color Difference)
- MEMC video frame rate upscaling
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As if to offset all mishaps that happened in 2020, the world of phone making didn’t cease to amaze and notched the biggest development in mobile displays since, well, the introduction of the OLED technology. What happened? Popularizing the high dynamic refresh rate, that’s what, and there is no looking back once you’ve tried it while browsing and scrolling.
Moreover, the 6.78″ 1440p “Ultra Vision” screen of Oppo, dubbed “Fluid Display” technology on the OnePlus 9 Pro, both mimic the same great features that no other 2021 phone has in this combination. Variable 1Hz-120Hz refresh rate based on the content you are currently viewing? Check. 120Hz at the full 1440p screen resolution? Check. Upscaling content frame rate to match the one of the display? Yep, Oppo calls it Ultra Vision Engine, and it is able to upscale video to 60fps as well.
PhoneArena: Which apps get what Hz in Auto Select – is it 120Hz in Chrome, but 60Hz in, say, video playback? What about the interface?
OnePlus: It’s up to the app that you are using. For example, social media apps, browsers, system interface and other local apps like photo/video album support 120Hz, whereas most of the video and gaming apps support 60Hz. For the video playback, the refresh rate will depend on the video frame rate to be either 60Hz or 120Hz.
The display is basically able to do what MEMC TVs do, automatically increasing frames in video to up the rate, and take better advantage of the high refresh rate even with content that is usually shot with 24fps or 30fps.
Our display benchmarks of the 6.78″ 1440p screens above, and DisplayMate’s OnePlus 8 Pro screen review demonstrate that the OnePlus CEO wasn’t teasing when he said that these may be the “best smartphone display in 2020.” Detailing the panel’s virtues in a blog post, he also mentioned that:
In order to reach industry-leading color accuracy standards, we have added an additional automatic color calibration machine to the production line. By adding an extra 30 seconds to the production time, each display panel is automatically calibrated for color accuracy before it’s released.

The best displays of 2020 transitioned to perfect white balance in both the standard and wide color gamuts in 2021
Best Apple iPhone display
- iPhone 13 Pro Max
- 6.7″ LTPS panel with dynamic 120Hz refresh rate
- Top peak brightness
- Toughest Ceramic Shield cover glass protection
Apple’s finest finally found the 120Hz refresh feature (say that 3 times quickly) and if you are already invested in the iOS ecosystem, there is nothing better than the largest, toughest display on an iPhone so far.
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Bonus: Pixel 5’s display
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