Why do I see a colour shift when looking at the display from an angle?

Valid for

• Xperia devices with an OLED screen.

Solution

You might experience that the display shifts to a more blueish tone when looking at it from an angle. This is not a defect. It’s a characteristic typical of an OLED screen and is regarded as a normal behaviour.

Organic pixels emit light in OLED, but in order to extract light efficiently, light interference is used, so when viewed from an angle, the film thickness of the organic layer changes, so the balance of each color is always out of balance. 

The Xperia phone is designed to balance the front view and the diagonal view in consideration of power consumption, etc., so it is designed so that it can be used with as little color change as possible. 

Example of color shift