Computer-screen VS Mobile phone-screen

I am working on a pretty good laptop at home with a pretty good screen. But always when I see some pictures from my mobile phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) the pics looks soooo much nicer. The contrast, blacks and the colors looks waaaay better.
I am sure my laptop screen is not bad at all and doesn't need any calibration.

Am I the only one who find the pictures looking way better on there mobile device? Are there extern monitors which will produce the same quality as our phones? I know a phone has smaller pixels etc. but that's not the only thing what makes te pictures pop on the phone.

I am curious if you experience the same.

Bonbridge wrote in post #15899392
I am sure my laptop screen is not bad at all and doesn't need any calibration.

I have never seen a video system that couldn't be improved by proper calibration. You'll never know about yours unless you actually calibrate it with a good colorimeter.

I can't imagine that your laptop wouldn't benefit from calibration. Having both a Galaxy SII and a Note II, I know what you're talking about. The phones tend to saturate images to within an inch of their lives. The LED screens tend to be pretty good with blacks as well. The phones also tend to be a bit brighter too.
If you want to view your images as accurately as possible you need a quality monitor geared towards imaging (NEC, Lacie, Eizo) and it needs to be properly calibrated.

Laptops tend to a blue color fault, which makes most images look sad while phones add contrast. You also have to change settings like luminance, gamma, the white point and things like that. But a calibration program will do this automatically.. It all depends on in which room you are working and what color the reflexions have that your room produces. And while looking at your photos you should wear a black shirt.

Your phone is juicing the colors and contrast, so of course it pops more. That doesn't make it right, or your laptop right. You won't know unless you've calibrated both. A screen without calibration is just a guessing game.

I have checked the calibration settings and it all looked good to me. I haven't checked anything with some kind of program though.

I am now looking at some monitors where I am somewhat interested in. I will buy a calibration software thing with it if I am going to buy one. I am now looking at the following monitors:

Dell Ultrasharp U2713H Black €698
Dell Ultrasharp U2711 Black €548
NEC Multisync PA271W Black €1088

Bonbridge wrote in post #15902164
I have checked the calibration settings and it all looked good to me.

Whatever you may have looked at cannot possibly make sure the white point, black point, and colors are correct on your monitor.

You need a calibration package that includes not only software but a sensor that is used to "see" the monitor while the monitor is being driven through a range of colors. After analysis with the sensor, the software makes a set of corrections and the system again analyzes all of the colors and intensities.

I have an NEC PA231W with the optional calibration package and this package really works well.

The optional calibration package for the PA271W is the SVII-PRO-KIT.

Bonbridge wrote in post #15899392
I am working on a pretty good laptop at home with a pretty good screen. But always when I see some pictures from my mobile phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) the pics looks soooo much nicer. The contrast, blacks and the colors looks waaaay better.
I am sure my laptop screen is not bad at all and doesn't need any calibration.

Am I the only one who find the pictures looking way better on there mobile device? Are there extern monitors which will produce the same quality as our phones? I know a phone has smaller pixels etc. but that's not the only thing what makes te pictures pop on the phone.

I am curious if you experience the same.

The Samsung Galaxy SIII has an AMOLED display, which is a technology that offers significantly better black levels, contrast, and viewing angles than a traditional LCD. LCD's have a distinct disadvantage of relying on edge or backlights to illuminate the display, and you inevitibly have 'light bleed' that reduces the contrast and black levels of the display. Even very expensive LCD's backlit by an array of RGB LED's are subject to this. This is in stark contrast to AMOLED and Plasma displays, in which each pixel is individually illuminated.

The OLED displays is a significant technological leap over the old LCD displays that make-up most monitors today. We're just now starting to see larger panel OLED TV's hitting the market this year, and will probably start seeing OLED monitors sometime in the near future as well.