De GSMArena:
Reality display is pretty good
The 4.2” 16M-color LCD screen of the XPERIA Arc has FWVGA resolution (854 x 480 pixels). It’s a capacitive touchscreen and we had no issues with its sensitivity and response. As you would expect from a modern day smartphone, multi-touch input is enabled too so as far as touch control is concerned, there’s nothing to worry about.
Dubbed Reality display, the most interesting thing about the the Arc’s screen, is the Sony Bravia Mobile Engine, which is expected to improve the image quality by boosting contrast and sharpness when viewing images or watching videos. We are pleased to report that it’s actually doing a good job, rather than just sound good in a press release.
The Reality display boasts excellent picture quality
In fact,
when looked at from the proper angle the XPERIA Arc display is certainly among the best screens on the market. It’s got more vibrant reds and greens than the iPhone 4 Retina display and in case you aren’t into much saturation you will probably prefer it over the Samsung SuperAMOLED screens too (though we still find Nokia’s ClearBlack screens to be the champion in color rendering).
Those observations were
confirmed by our new contrast test, which the Arc passed with flying colors. The contrast of its 4.2” screen topped our charts, even though its brightness fell slightly short of the iPhone 4 result.
Of course, an LCD unit is unable to match the deep black contrast of an AMOLED screen, but given that limitation Sony Ericsson has done an excellent job.
