iPad is no doubt an excellent brand with its three stellar tablets, but which tablet is the best? According to the lab test result, the iPad mini 4 wins in most categories.
While the three tablets, iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 4 comes in IPS LCDs, the performance development varies. One obvious difference among tablets' display are the difference in sizes of the screen from 7.9 inches, 9.7 inches and 12.9 inches, Tech Times reported.
Pixels / Resolution
iPad mini 326 X 264 pixels
iPad Air 2 2,048 x 1,536 pixels
iPad Pro has the biggest display at 2,732 x 2,048 pixels
Among the 3 tablets, iPad mini have the smallest screen but has the highest PPI.
True Contrast Ratio
iPad mini 4 - 967 does not sport a Photo Aligned LCD
iPad Air 2 - 1,064
iPad Pro - 1,631 wins
The iPad Pro has the highest contrast Ratio.
Screen Reflectance (Record Low Reflectance)
iPad Mini 4 2.0 percent
iPad Air 2 2.5 percent
iPad Pro 2.6 percent
In this category, the iPad mini 4 again surprisingly emerged the winner.
Absolute Color Accuracy
This category determines the quality of a display is its color accuracy.
iPad Pro with very good color accuracy and small color errors.
iPad Air 2 fared the worst in this assessment with good color accuracy and medium color errors.
Image Contrast Accuracy
iPad Air 2 scored an excellent as well, but its image contrast accuracy was not close to perfect but close to standard.
Overall Display Calibration Image and Picture Quality
This lab test iPad mini 4 came out to have the best with excellent calibration.
Both the iPad 2 and iPad Pro were rated to have very good calibration.
In the overall assessment , the iPad mini 4 has an Excellent Display.
Both iPad Air 2 and the iPad Pro rated Very Good Display for medium and large sized tablets.
According to Neurogadget, the iPad mini 4 is close to textbook perfect LCD display in all of the Lab measurements and viewing tests. It is also rated Best in every single test category except for the Contrast Ratio which landed a Very Good rating.
The iPad Pro has scored fairly well with Very Good to Excellent rates. The iPad Air 2, on the other hand, ended up the weakest among the three tablets.
