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It seems like the wallpapers on the new 9.7" iPad Pro are Adobe RGB (displayed as P3).

Beyond that, there's probably nothing that the average user can notice yet, at least until iTunes UHD content comes this year or next year.

Apple is bringing P3 support to Safari. There is already media query to check for P3 screen, which is useful to switch between P3 and sRGB images.

https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-4/#color-gamut

They might also add support for css colors in P3 color space. (css colors are currently always sRGB).

There are times using my iPad (which I'm doing right now) where the screen starts to remind me of a Kindle reader.

This looks very interesting.

How are the reflections? If there is an overhead lamp, can you recognize your face on the screen and see the lamp reflection clearly?

Disclaimer: I am in the crowd who despises reflective screens but all the advertisements arrange the devices such that there is no visible reflections when in fact you are staring your own face or reflection of the lamp all the time. I find that most of the companies should be slapped with hefty fine for deeply misleading advertisements.

The Air 2 was pretty good, and the Pro is supposed to be even better. I haven't noticed any issues, but to be honest I use my iPad at home in situations where I don't think glare would come up much. I don't notice my face, but honestly I don't remember having that issue with the Air 2 either.

A thorough look at the screen from DisplayMate: http://www.displaymate.com/iPad_Pro9_ShootOut_1.htm

It's _very_ good.

> The iPad Pro 9.7 has a very innovative low Reflectance screen that reflects just 1.7 percent of the ambient light by using a new Anti-Reflection AR coating. It has by far the lowest screen Reflectance of any mobile display, so its image colors and contrast in high ambient light will appear considerably better than on any other mobile display. It’s a major enhancement that reduces the reflected light glare from the screen by a very impressive factor of 3 to 1 compared to most Tablets and Smartphones.

> Our Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light quantitatively measures screen visibility under bright Ambient Light – the higher the better. As a result of its high Brightness and very low Reflectance, the iPad Pro 9.7 has a Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light of 301, by far the highest that we have ever measured. See the Screen Reflections and Brightness and Contrast sections for measurements and details.

(emphasis mine)

This is very serious review. Thanks for this link.

It looks like they are admitting that the problem of reflections is a serious one and needs addressing. I think that this is very positive.

But just a number does not make any sense, so I looked up some videos. Here is the first one where he turns the tablet around quite in the beginning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RGbn2oAri8

It looks like that 1.7 percent of reflectance will still cause serious reflections. This is not good enough.

So the rating Outstanding should in fact read still far from barely satisfactory. :(

I hope that people will wise up and start demanding reflection free devices.

I don't understand - why do you care so much about seeing reflections? Why is that an issue? Why should I demand reflection free devices? I like the shiny surface - it's easy to clean and looks smart.

I limit the discussion to the tablets.

First of, reflections distract. If I see a movement, my instinct is to focus on the movement. I do not want that. I want to focus on what is on the screen.

When laying on the table, a reflective surface shines an overhead light source into my eyes. This forces me to carefully position the tablet when not in use. I do not want that.

Reflective surface will mirror my face, I do not want to be constantly conscious about my presence.

You could try a matte screen protector. Overall reflectance will me much higher than the stock screen, and IMO they tend to look a bit fuzzy, but it at least cuts out the mirror reflections.

Yep, I tried them. The problem is that they introduce either noise around edges or rainbow colored noise on light areas. Or both.

Unfortunately it is not comparable to the good matte ISP screen experience.

I kept reading through the article, ploughing through the graphs but at no stage did the author write anything that conveyed how good it was in terms I could relate to. Some things need to be written about subjectively rather than objectively.

Thanks for putting in to words what the article didn't do, to explain that it is a truly great display on this tablet.

It's not a new idea, but a very effective one. There was an article on here a while ago where someone converted a 5K iMac screen into a "real" picture hanging on the wall, complete with wooden frame and white point shifting:

http://www.claybavor.com/?p=407

discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10900439