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IPS vs AMOLED: The differences explained

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For a long time,since the first smartphone whose screen you could touch and have a response came out,IPS panels have been used. They are a type of LCD(Liquid Crystal Display) that uses In Plane Switching technology,in which the refresh and revise rates of the screen are much quicker than regular LCD,leading to faster frames and less skipped frames(like on the iPad Pro 2017,which a refresh rate of 120Hz). They were used because of the simplicity of creating them and the fact that they were really cheap to come by,and really the only option then. TFT (Thin Film Transmission)is a sort of screen tech(based on LCD) which uses really thin transistors below the touch area to remit your touches to the software,leading to much thinner and lighter devices. Explanation of LCD in Itself For those of us who don't know,LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display. This type of display uses pixels that are illuminated by the use of a backlight sitting behind the panel of pixels.  In other words,they a...