•Dell’s range of consumer monitors sporting a beautiful new look:
- S2240L/M and S2340L/M monitors are virtually borderless
- S2740L and S2440L monitors have a clean, flush edge-to-edge glass, and are almost frameless
•S2740L is Dell’s first 27” consumer monitor
•The S2440L replaces the ST2420L; the S2340L replaces the ST2320L; S2240L replaces the ST2220L
•The suffixes L and M indicate the ports found on each monitor model. The 27” and 24” monitors only come with
VGA and HDMI (L suffix); while the 23” and 21.5” monitors have both models with L and M suffixes.
- L: VGA + HDMI
- M: VGA + DVI
What makes them different?
•Dell S series monitors redefine elegance and performance in a virtually borderless/ frameless design.
•These consumer series monitors come with advanced panel technologies with ultra-wide viewing angles
•These monitors come with Image Enhance feature designed to improve the visual quality of your onscreen
monitors
Target audience
•Gen Y
•Affluent professionals
•Customers buying XPS desktops or notebooks
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Dell S series monitors with LED
S series value proposition
The Dell S series maximizes your media entertainment experience with aesthetics and
performance. Seamless and intuitive to use, it helps you be efficient and productive, all in a
stylish design.
S series messaging
•Single sentence description
Experience visual screen brilliance on this amazingly beautiful, virtually borderless Dell
S2340L/M 23” monitor (OR S2240L/M 21.5” monitor).
Experience visual screen brilliance on this amazingly beautiful, virtually frameless Dell
S2740L 27” monitor (OR 2440L 24” monitor).
•Short description
Get both beauty and performance on this amazingly beautiful, virtually borderless Dell
S2340L/ S2240 monitor OR virtually frameless Dell S2740/ 2440 monitor.
Visually brilliant, the S series monitors can enhance your multimedia experience with their
full HD resolution, high color gamut and mega dynamic contrast ratio of 8 million:1 (typical)
– offering you vivid image clarity and colors so rich, they simply pop off the screen!
The fast screen response times on the S series monitors also help minimize motion blur and
their 178°/ 178° (typical) ultra-wide viewing angles simply make watching movies and
playing games an amazing experience.
-edge-to-edge glass with near
frameless design on a glossy screen
• Design that redefines elegance
• Redefines your viewing experience with a virtually borderless design, providing
you with the ultimate big picture and sense of infinity by eliminating the space
between the panel and bezel.
• Provides you with a seamless viewing experience with their flushed edge-toedge glass -- a clean finish that boasts of fine craftsmanship on a glossy screen.
• From monitor panel, to the design of the riser, right up to the Dell chrome badge,
the Dell S series redefines elegance.
• Thin monitors with great looks exude a modern and contemporary appeal - all in
a stylish design.
Remarkable
screen
performance
• Ultra-wide viewing angle of 178°/178°
(typical)
• Superb clarity, color accuracy and
consistency
• Image Enhance capability
• Dell Display Manager – Auto mode
• Full HD 1920 x 1080 (max) resolution
with 16:9 aspect ratio
• Mega dynamic contrast ratio at
8million:1 (typical)
• Wide color gamut* (typical)
- S27@ 84%, S24@ 86%, S23 & S22 @ 82%
*Color gamut (typical) is based on CIE1976
(84%/89%/82%/82%) and CIE1931 (72%) test
standards.
• An ultra-wide viewing angle facilitates collaborative viewing, and can improve
your work productivity
• In-plane switching and Vertical alignment panel technologies offer superb onscreen clarity and color accuracy and consistency across a wide viewing angle.
• Image Enhance feature enhances your picture quality by sharpening the images,
improving the color hues, and boosting the color contrast.
• The new Dell Display Manager comes with an Auto mode option that allows you
to set your preferred optimal preset mode to your active applications (e.g. Movie,
Multimedia, Game, Text, Warm, Cool, Custom Color)
• Get sharp, vivid, cinematic-quality images with full high-definition resolution that
supports a 16:9 widescreen format.
•Experience amazing color details such as deep blacks and bright whites while
viewing photos and videos.
•Enjoy brilliant color performance with the S series’ ability to produce a wide
range of colors.
Dell S series monitors with LED
Redefining elegance and performance
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Key
messaging
What they are
Benefits
Great usability
and comfort
• Tilt (for all models)
• Cable management
• HDMI & VGA ports (S2740L has
additional USB port)
• Maximizes your viewing comfort by allowing you to adjust to your preferred
angle
• A neater and clutter-free desktop
• VGA connector facilitates easy connection to most PCs.
• HDMI port gives you uncompromised high quality video and audio performance
Energy efficient
• Made of environmentally responsible
materials
- Arsenic-free glass and mercury-free
LED panel
• Meet latest environmental standards
-ENERGY STAR
®
- EPEAT Silver
• Power management software:
PowerNap
• These less hazardous materials help make the monitors easy to recycle, and
lower your power consumption
• Meet strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the EPA and US Department of
Energy, helping you reduce your energy bills and improve home comfort. Have
environmentally preferable product design and management.
• PowerNap software helps to dim the monitor to its minimum brightness level or
puts it into sleep mode when not in use, helping you be energy efficient
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New features
Dell Display Manager
Enjoy great productivity with the easy-to-use Dell Display Manager –
your one stop software application for the following features:
Auto Mode
With Auto mode, the color settings of applications now appear how
you want them to. Simply select the optimal preset mode of your
choice for specific applications and the active application will use the
preset mode you have picked. Eg. select Multimedia mode for
Internet Explorer, so that opening Internet Explorer thereafter will
enable you to view your internet pages in the multimedia mode’s
color settings.
PowerNap Conserve energy with the S series monitors’ PowerNap feature,
which dims the monitor to its minimum brightness or puts it in to
sleep mode when not in use.
Easy Arrange (only available on the S2740L and S2440L monitors)
Improve your productivity with the Easy Arrange software, which
organizes your monitor screen by arranging/ tiling your applications
side by side, so that you can view multiple application windows at one
glance.
Simply select your preferred available layout on Easy Arrange, and
drag and drop the specific applications into your preferred grid
location.
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New features
Without Image Enhance With Image Enhance
Image Enhance
Image Enhance feature enhances your picture quality by sharpening the images, improving the
color hues, and boosting the color contrast.
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Key difference from existing models
S2440L/ S2340L/ S2240L
New!
ST2420L/ ST2320L/ST2220L
Panel type and backlight
S2440: VA with LED backlight
S2340 & S2240: In-plane switching
with LED backlight
TN with LED backlight
Viewing angle (vertical/horizontal)
178°/178°
160°/170°
Contrast ratio (typical)
S2440: 5,000:1; S2340 & S2240:
1000:1
1,000:1
Color gamut (typical) based on CIE 1976 test standards
86%/ 82%/ 82%
81%/ 78%/ 78%
Image Enhance feature
Yes
No
Power consumption (normal operation,
typical)
18W/ 19W/ 18W
20W/ 24W/ 20W
Power consumption (active-off mode)
< 0.5 W
< 1 W
Key features to upsell S2440L/ S2340L/ S2240L from ST2420L/ ST2320L/ST2220L
S2440L/ S2340L/ S2240L are/have:
•Ultra-wide viewing angles – color of images remain accurate and consistent no matter which angle you view the monitor from
•Higher contrast ratios – result in better display of variations in gray tones, better color imaging, richer and more accurate colors
•Image Enhance feature – enhances picture quality by sharpening images, improving the color hues and color contrast.
•Low power consumption – helps you save more energy by having a lower power consumption than their predecessors in the typical and