What Display Daily thinks: According to Displaymate’s extensive lab tests and measurements, the OnePlus 12 display delivers uniformly excellent and top-tier display performance, comparable or better than other high-end OLED smartphone displays. That’s probably a better showcase for BOE’s smartphone display chops than a win at Apple or Samsung. It probably doesn’t hurt BOE in getting supply contracts at those two companies either, neither wanting to see a competitor thrive without having some insight into its workings.
But, more importantly, Oppo is producing solid premium phones, and BOE is delivering premium displays that compete against the best in the market. The OnePlus 12R, apparently being rebranded as the OnePlus Ace 3 is about to launch in China, and the rest of the world before the end of the month. BOE takes center stage in the commentary and discussions on social media and smartphone blogs. That’s a great position for BOE to be in, Apple or no Apple.
The OnePlus 12 BOE Display
Displaymate;s detailed lab test results and measurements of the BOE OLED display on the OnePlus 12 smartphone tested a range of display parameters were tested and analyzed including screen reflections, brightness and contrast, colors and intensities, absolute color accuracy, viewing angles, and display spectra.
The OnePlus 12 has a 6.8-inch diagonal flexible OLED display with diamond pixels in a 19.8:9 aspect ratio. It has a resolution of 3168×1440 pixels (Quad HD+) and a pixel density of 510 pixels per inch. The display supports a regular 60Hz refresh rate and an enhanced 120Hz high refresh rate. It covers color gamuts of 116% DCI-P3 and 146% sRGB in Vivid mode. The OnePlus 12 display has very low screen reflectance of just 4.0% for ambient light and 4.8% for mirror reflections. This helps improve screen readability in ambient lighting.
In Vivid mode, the OnePlus 12 display achieved peak brightness levels between 692 to 777 nits depending on the Average Picture Level (APL). In automatic High Brightness mode for ambient light, it reached over 2000 nits. Measured black levels and contrast ratio were excellent. The display received very high contrast ratings for ambient light viewing conditions.
The display showed excellent color accuracy in DCI-P3 and sRGB color modes, with average errors below 1 JNCD (Just Noticeable Color Difference). The largest color errors were below 2 JNCD. Color shifts with changing APL were extremely small, below 0.1 JNCD. Gamma of 2.21 and intensity scale accuracy were excellent.
Brightness and contrast changes with viewing angle were small for an OLED display. Measured color shifts were mostly less than 3 JNCD at 30 degrees indicating very good stability. Primary color shifts, white point shift, and shift for reference brown color were all small.
