The TF300's display still gets sufficiently bright, though it appears slightly
dimmer than the screen on the iPad 2 ($ 399, 4.5 stars).
You'll also get 16 GB of internal file storage (with microSD slot), a 5 - inch 1080 x 1920 pixel TFT LCD screen (gets a little
dimmer than some screens on extreme angles), a 13.1 - megapixel rear camera, a 2.2 - megapixel front camera, NFC (you can «bump» the Z to other Sony products to auto connect), DLNA, MHL, Bluetooth 4.0, accelerometers, GPS, and all that jazz.
Even at full brightness, it's
dimmer than the screen on Apple's iPhone 6S.
Measuring just 326 nits on our brightness meter, the One A9's display is
dimmer than the screens of the average smartphone (405.9 nits), the OnePlus 2 (331 nits), the Nexus 6P (337 nits), the Nexus 5X (454 nits) and the Moto X Pure (479 nits).
Not exact matches
For those of us who chose to bury ourselves in movies rather
than pay attention to the events transpiring across the country, the mention of the inauguration jolted us briefly back to reality — a needle puncturing our cozy Hollywood bubble, if you will — shortly before the lights
dimmed and a fresh distraction took over the
screen.
The Ultra's
screen has an average brightness of 239 lux, which is significantly brighter
than the Fuhu Nabi 2 (162 lux) and XO Tablet (155 lux), but
dimmer than the 374 - lux Meep and tablet category average of 353 lux.
The Aura is great, but the
screen in my opinion is
dimmer than other readers when I don't use the front light indoors, I'm looking for something also with a sharper text, this is why I was thinking to switch to Kindle PW2, but I like the Kobo flexibility more.
The LG G2 lasted more
than 13 hours on a charge, but has a much
dimmer screen.
In low light or darkness, I used to us an app to
dim the Fire
screen even further
than its minimum; not sure if that's true of the latest Fires.
The IPS
screen looked brighter and crisper
than last year's
dim version, and it has an anti-fingerprint coating.
Browsing the Web worked fine using the WebKit browser, though the Edge's
dim, stubborn color
screen made it much less fun
than on an iPad.
The XO Tablet's
screen is
dimmer than most, measuring just 155 lux.
One issue I noticed with the 5T's
screen is that the phone's automatic brightness functionality tends to
dim the
screen more
than it should.
Whereas last year's
screen offered a bright 308 nits, the new Inspiron 11 3000 emits only 208 nits, making it
dimmer than the Surface 3 (407 nits), the Ideapad Miix 310 (255 nits), the Transformer Book Flip TP200SA (243 nits), the Aspire Switch 10 E (263 nits) and the average for ultraportables (287 nits).
The 9.4 - inch, 1280x800
screen is quite good — less reflective
than most — but it's a bit
dim.
Dimmer -
than - average
screen; Expensive; Too awkward to use while standing, taking photos; Big
screen accentuates Android's tablet app gap
The
screen also seems less bright and less vivid
than alternatives, and the
dimming on it is just plain bad — the phone doesn't
dim smoothly, instead stuttering a bit as it jumps from one level of brightness to the next.
So, for a standard 1080p
screen with 1920 × 1080 resolution, with each pixel getting three Micro LED backlights all to itself, that's more
than six million MicroLED lights — each of which can be brighter,
dimmer, or completely turned off, as the picture's color reproduction requires.
The reduced
Screen Door Effect means that you won't see quite as much of that black grid - like appearance across the image, though, as always, it will stand out on some colors more
than others, and in
dim or dark scenes you'll hardly be able to tell that it's there.
The iPhone X
screen starts
dimming and goes to sleep in 30 seconds, sometimes sooner
than that.
The Nexus 5's
screen is
dimmer than its competitors» and its camera struggles under auto settings.
Its
screen is a bit
dim, and its battery life is solid but shorter
than what competitors offer.
The Bad The Nexus 5's
screen is
dimmer than its competitors» and its camera struggles under auto settings.
The Google Pixel has a
screen that can get far
dimmer than the HTC 10 (and maybe a hair brighter, too), and while the unlocked US HTC 10 has been getting relatively steady updates, nothing gets updates faster
than a Google Pixel.
The
screen on our G5 review unit looked
dim, and registered just 354 nits on our light meter, which is
dimmer than the average smartphone (438 nits), the Galaxy S7 Edge and the iPhone 6s.
Since the Galaxy S7 has the brightest
screen around, it will be more
than enough to compensate for a
dim room.
The LG G Flex 2 showed a phenomenon I've been seeing more and more often lately, which is that the
dim screen actually gets less battery life
than the bright
screen.
The bad news is that, with local
dimming turned on, we were able to detect more
screen uniformity problems
than we did with local
dimming turned off.
However, when you're indoors, the
screen, while still viewable, is much
dimmer than you'll see on most smartwatches.
As well as being even brighter and more colorful
than last year's equivalent model, Samsung's 2018 flagship
screens use a completely different lighting system to combat its predecessor's contrast problems: Full Array Local
Dimming rather
than edge - lit LED lighting.
With full - array local
dimming sets like the Panasonic AX900, the advantage of the local
dimming is immediately apparent as the
screen area to the left and right of the subtitles generally remains dark, though depending on how many zones are at play, some TVs will have more backlight «creep»
than others.
First, the «vignette effect» that caused the very outer edges of last year's OLED panels to be ever - so - slightly
dimmer than the rest of the
screen?
Measuring 335 nits on ourlight meter, the Blackphone's
screen is
dimmer than that of the Alpha (371 nits) as well as the iPhone 6 (504 nits), not to mention the category average of 368 nits.
Yes, those edge - lit areas of the
screen dim in large, imprecise swaths compared with the
dimmers that have full - array backlights, but some local
dimming is better
than none in my experience since it usually improves black - level performance.