Display Quality

The Xperia X Functioning packs a 5.0-inch IPS LCD with a resolution of 1920 ten 1080. Sony has used a similar brandish in every flagship since the Xperia Z, which was released in early 2013, so they're clearly comfortable with the size and resolution (441 PPI).

There's zero wrong with having a 1080p display in a modernistic flagship, though you lose out on a small amount of actress clarity that 1440p display provides, I'd exist more concerned if the display was larger, but at 5.0-inches I have no complaints about the sharpness of the 10 Performance'southward.

The only potential downside to having a lower resolution is in virtual reality applications, where the extra pixel density of a 1440p tin can improve the experience. However, Sony isn't targeting VR with this smartphone at all, dissimilar some of its competitors.

The brightness of this brandish is skilful, at nearly 570 nits, although it has regressed slightly compared to the Xperia Z5. The contrast ratio remains largely the aforementioned every bit the previous generation, which is average for an LCD and doesn't attain the same deep blacks as other displays of this blazon. Viewing angles, though, are however excellent and outdoor visibility is great.

Like the Xperia Z5, the X Performance still suffers from poor color performance. Sony has tightened upwards the color temperature, then by default the X Performance isn't as cold and blue tinted as before; however, color temperature still isn't close to the ideal 6504K value. This leads to poor greyness accuracy, although gamma has significantly improved from the Z5 to now sit shut to ii.2.

Color accurateness past default is not smashing. Sony has opted to apply a gamut that's outside standard sRGB for a significantly oversaturated look, particularly for greens. Equally nosotros know, Android doesn't have proper color management to make use of larger gamuts, so the X Operation ends up looking unnaturally saturated. Information technology's shut to the Galaxy S7 in this respect, simply without the fantastic contrast ratio of an AMOLED display.

In some circumstances, an oversaturated brandish tin make images expect 'meliorate' at the expense of accurateness. I don't believe that the Xperia X Performance is 1 of these cases, and the strong oversaturation here, combined with a cold tone and average dissimilarity ratio, makes imagery look a bit likewise unnatural for my liking.

Oversaturation is made even worse when the "X-Reality" way is enabled, which attempts to "amend the viewing quality of photos and videos" in the first-party gallery app only. This way is enabled by default, but luckily it only applies in the one app, every bit it artificially increases dissimilarity (reducing detail) and pushes saturation so far that images wait surreal. There's a "super-vivid way" too, which is even worse.

For people who'd rather the display was more than accurate, Sony does include a white residuum tool that tin can right the display'due south color temperature. On my review unit (and notation that at that place will be some variance between units), putting reds at +180, greens at +130, and blues at +0 delivered near perfect white balance. This resulted in fantabulous greyness performance, and improvements to general accuracy, although the too-broad color gamut cannot exist corrected in software. For those that need a colour accurate brandish, the Xperia X Performance is not for yous.