TFT Display vs Super AMOLED, which is Better?

Thanks for the display technology development, we have a lot of display choices for our smartphones, media players, TVs, laptops, tablets, digital cameras, and other such gadgets. The most display technologies we hear are LCD, TFT, OLED, LED, QLED, QNED, MicroLED, Mini LED etc. The following, we will focus on two of the most popular display technologies in the market: TFT Displays and Super AMOLED Displays.

TFT Display

TFT means Thin-Film Transistor. TFT is the variant of Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs). There are several types of TFT displays: TN (Twisted Nematic) based TFT display, IPS (In-Plane Switching) displays. As the former can’t compete with Super AMOLED in display quality, we will mainly focus on using IPS TFT displays.

Super AMOLED

OLED means Organic Light-Emitting Diode. There are also several types of OLED, PMOLED (Passive Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) and AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode). It is the same reason that PMOLED can’t compete with IPS TFT displays. We pick the best in OLED displays: Super AMOLED to compete with the LCD best: IPS TFT Display.

Super AMOLED vs IPS TFT

it emits own light

It requires a backlight

Very slim profile

Thicker because of the backlight

Higher because of dark background

Lower because of backlighting

All around

It has color changes at extreme viewing angles

Bright and vibrant colors available

Not the same good compared with AMOLED

Easily available dark background

Difficult because the backlight leakage

Difficult to get because color mix difficult which can look yellowish

Easily avaible by using white LED backlight

Needs to drive hard and difficult

Easily and low cost to get by using high brightness backlight, transflective displays, optical bonding and surface treatment

Lower because of selective display area and better battery life

Higher because of backlight on

Shorter, especially affected by the presence of water

Longer

Very high

Very competitive prices

Limited sizes and manufacturers

Widely available on different sizes and many manufacturers to choose from

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