If these rumors pan out, there might be a good reason to wait till summer. Apparently, the soon-to-be flagship Sony Xperia X Performance will offer an HDR display, a first in smartphones.

 An HDR screen would mean crazy rich colors that are more vibrant. According to Phone Radar’s source, the Xperia X Premium will sport a 10-bit HDR display that can show 1,024 shades of the primary red, green and blue (RGB) colors. That’s a nice upgrade over the usual 256 RGB hues that other screens offer. 

But that’s not all; in addition to an HDR display which would allow the phone to reach deep blacks and bright whites, the phone’s screen will supposedly be twice as bright as competitors.

 The leak also suggests that the purported Xperia X Premium’s panel would offer a scorching “1,000 nits of white brightness” and can even go up to 1,300 nits at maximum. Our current smartphone average is 437 nits, and the Galaxy S7 Edge notched 530 nits on our light meter. 

All of this sounds crazy at face value but besides making HDR televisions, Sony was also the first manufacturer to make a 4K display smartphone (the Xperia Z5 Premium) so I wouldn’t put it past them. Of course, just because you can build it doesn’t mean you should. Would an HDR display be nice on a mobile device? Yea, I guess, but seeing how those Facebook vids and YouTube series barely pass muster for 1080p which is what’s mostly consumed on a phone versus a Netflix series like Marco Polo, I’m not sure having a display like that will really matter. Now, on a tablet? Sign me up.

Update:

I’ve mistakenly called the Xperia X Performance (correct in the title) the X Premium in the article which I’ve since fixed. However, the original source does call it the Xperia X Premium which either means there will be another model announced by Sony or they are also mistakenly typing Premium for Performance like I had.

Discuss:

Do you think Sony will offer an HDR display on the Xperia X Performance?

[Via Tom’sGuide]