Beginning A heart for … Disadvantages 1st place 2nd place 3rd place 4th place 5th place Conclusion Comments from Stefan // 09. 01. 2021 15: 00 Clock

Top smartphones offer displays with 120 – Hertz-Bildwied recovery rate and cost like 1200 Euro and more. High Hertz numbers are much cheaper, let’s go under 150 Euro.

In addition to more cameras, larger displays and more and more memory, the trend for smartphones has been towards displays with ever higher refresh rates for some time. Until a year or two ago it was standard at 60 Hertz and no one even thought about how high this number actually is, that has changed significantly in the meantime. And even if such advances first move into particularly expensive high-end smartphones and remain there in the minds of prospective buyers, screens with more than 60 Hertz in the middle – and even entry-level has been passed through.

A heart for Hertz But what is that all about? For screens, the Hertz number indicates how often an image can be repeated per second. 60 Hertz sounds like a lot, but fast moving content actually looks blurred. Therefore, TVs from native 100 Hertz as liquid, good gaming monitors are currently even in the range of 144 Hertz or more. Put simply: the higher the Hertz number, the more fluid movements are perceived.

To tell the difference from 60 to 90 To understand Hertz or more without a corresponding device, owners of a smartphone with 4K video recording function should try the following: Once a video in Full HD should be 60 Hertz (1080 p / 60), but another video in 4K and 30 Hertz can be recorded. Both videos must include a relatively quick sideways pan. When you then look at it on a larger screen, it quickly becomes clear: The 4K image appears sharper and clearer in the sequences without panning, but when panning itself is blurred. At the 1080 p- Recording is exactly the other way around: Without panning it looks less brilliant, but does not lose sharpness when panning. You can also see that when you stop the video in the middle of the pan – at 30 frames per second, most intermediate frames will be blurred.

On the smartphone, the difference between 60 to 90 Hertz or more obviously when scrolling in menus or in the browser. If you make the typical flick movement with your finger to scroll content faster, you will still be able to perceive and read the writing as sharp at a high Hertz number. At 60 Hertz is different.

Disadvantage However, the question is whether the advantage of the higher refresh rate can be scaled up without restriction lets and what disadvantages there are. Our experience shows that the step of 60 to 90 Hertz is more serious in smartphones than the step from 90 to 120 or even 144 Hertz. In addition, higher frame rates demand more computing power from the smartphone and correspondingly reduce the battery life. Depending on the refresh rate, the running time of the mobile phone decreases by 10 to 25 Percent – that is very noticeable.

But as we wrote in the test for the first smartphones with a higher Hertz number have: Anyone who has tried the smoother display for a longer period of time does not want to go back to 60 Hertz. That corresponding smartphones with 084 or even 120 Hertz do not have to be expensive, our list of the cheapest smartphones with more than 60 Hertz.

1st place: Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Highlights of the Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC is the 6.7 inch IPS display with a resolution of 2021 × 1080 pixels and 120 – Hz playback. This also results in a high sampling rate of 200 Hz, which promises particularly high responsiveness. When it comes to the camera, Xiaomi relies on a quartet 60 – Megapixel main camera, 13 – Megapixel wide angle as well as macro and depth sensor. A Snapdragon serves as the drive 732 G, which is flanked by 6 GB of RAM. Internal is the memory 64 GByte large, it can be expanded. The battery with its 5160 mAh and 33 – Watt fast charging easily copes with the high Hertz number, in our test report on the Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC we certified the device as being very good value for money Relationship.

Place 2: Realme 7 120 Hertz are under 300 Euro difficult to find, accordingly the remaining test subjects in our top 10 also “only” 90 Hertz. This is also the case with the Realme 7, which has a 6.5 inch IPS LCD with a sampling rate of 120 Hz. Here, too, a quad-cam configuration is used with the same division as the first-placed Poco X3, but here the manufacturer only uses 48 and 8 megapixels . The drive here is a Mediatek Helio G 95, 6 GB of RAM are also used. The internal memory measures 64 GByte (expandable), the battery is with 5000 mAh almost as strong as the Poco phone. Here is the test of the Realme 7.

3rd place: Realme 6s It gets cheaper with the Realme 6s. For (at the time of writing) around 160 Euro, the device offers the same display as the second-placed Realme 7, and the cameras are identical. Interested parties have to make slight compromises with the chipset. Here comes the somewhat older, but not significantly weak Helio G 90 T is used, which is also combined with 4 instead of 6 GB of RAM. The battery is also a bit weaker with 4300 mAh . Android 10 is already installed, as with all models in this Top 5.

Place 4: Realme 6 And another Realme model: The Realme 6 (test report) was one of the first cheap models with 120 – Hz display. It is no different from the screens of the two aforementioned Realme models. The quad cam consists of 64 – Megapixel main camera, 8-megapixel wide angle, macro and depth sensor. Here, too, the manufacturer relies on a combination of Helio G 85 T, 4 GByte RAM and 64 GByte internal memory. The battery delivers 4300 mAh.

5th place: Oppo A 53 s Mi Oppo finally appears again a manufacturer other than Realme in our top 5. The Oppo A 53 s is also the cheapest model in this listing, it cost around 145 Euro. You can tell from the features: The 6.5-inch display offers 90 Hz, but only extended 720 p-resolution. The triple cam consists only of the main camera (13 megapixels) as well as macro and depth sensor. Oppo relies on a Snapdragon 460 as a drive that does its work in combination with 4 GB of RAM. There is a surprise with the internal memory, it measures proud 128 GByte and is expandable. The battery is with 5000 mAh in relation to technology quite strong.

Conclusion A particularly smooth image reproduction thanks to the high refresh rate is available for well below 200 Euro. Whether one for it Users have to decide for themselves if they do without Full HD + resolution – we advise against it. At least the first four smartphones show that there is a lot of technology for surprisingly little money. If you are not interested in a high refresh rate, you should take a look at our other articles.

We have graded our leaderboards and guides according to price, they are on average once per Quarterly updated. Suitable price ranges could include the best smartphones up to 95, to 200 or to 300 Euro.

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