The Philips 288E2UAE delivers supreme colour accuracy in a 4K screen for a reasonable price. It's not perfect – we have some questions about the brightness and colour uniformity, for example. The gamut, while good, isn't as excellent as we might have expected either.
But considering the price, you get a a reasonable feature set. The four-port USB hub is useful. The OSD has just enough flexibility. The physical design is simple and unfussy.
It would have been good to have the ability to swivel the screen. But overall this is a keenly priced 4K monitor. To reiterate, it's not designed as a gaming display, with a maximum 60Hz refresh rate and run of the mill 4ms G2G response time.
If you're not a gamer however and more are focused on media or productivity applications, it's great value.
You can buy the Philips 288E2UAE from Amazon UK over HERE for £269.99 inc VAT.
Pros:
- Superb colour accuracy.
- 4K resolution.
- Reasonable price for 4K.
- Four-port USB hub.
Cons:
- No swivel adjustment.
- Uniformity not perfect.
- Merely decent gamut.
- Not for gamers.
KitGuru says: The Philips 288E2UAE is a competent 4K monitor for business, media and general application usage, with excellent colour accuracy.