Although
a high maximum brightness level is great for outdoor legibility, the screen is far too radiant in dark conditions, even at the lowest brightness level
Our tests resulted in respectable black levels and
a high maximum brightness.
Such outstanding results are made better by a matte coat and
high maximum brightness.
As we'll see below, the Lumia's actual visual Color Gamut rapidly improves compared to other Tablets under real ambient lighting conditions until it exceeds their performance due to its very
high maximum brightness and low Reflectance.
Because Tablets are frequently used under a very wide range of ambient lighting, a display that can deliver very
high Maximum Brightness is extremely important and a major advantage because not only does that improve the screen's readability, but also the image contrast, image colors and color saturation, and overall image and picture quality that you'll see under your actual real viewing conditions, both indoors and outdoors.
And relative to the last Nexus phones, they need a much
higher maximum brightness, and lower reflectivity, so they can be more easily seen outdoors.
The bigger display makes it feel more substantial to hold, and with
a higher maximum brightness, it's much easier to read in direct sunlight.
The Vizio stood out in our lab testing with
the highest maximum brightness of the bunch (295 nits), but in actual viewing, it was noticeably dim.
Not exact matches
High screen
Brightness is only needed when in
High Ambient Light, so most of the time the
Brightness should be set lower than the
maximum.
For the Galaxy S5, Samsung has instead concentrated on improving the
Maximum Brightness, Screen Reflectance, performance in
High Ambient Light, Absolute Color Accuracy, Viewing Angles, display power efficiency, and running time on battery.
The display's Contrast Rating for
High Ambient Light measures the screen's readability in Ambient Light and depends on both the Screen Reflectance and
Maximum Brightness.
The display's performance in ambient lighting depends on a combination of both its
Maximum Brightness and the screen Reflectance, called the Contrast Rating for
High Ambient Light (see below for details).
The display on the Nokia Lumia 2520 provides record
high ambient light performance and screen readability, with by far the brightest mobile display we have ever tested with an incredible
maximum brightness of 684 cd / m2 (sometimes called nits).
When Automatic
Brightness is turned On, the Galaxy Note 5 reaches an impressive
maximum screen
Brightness of up to 861 nits in
high Ambient Light, where
high screen
Brightness is really needed — it is the Brightest mobile display that we have ever tested.
On the Galaxy S9 the
Maximum Screen
Brightness can go much
higher when Automatic
Brightness is turned On, so that users can't permanently park the Manual
Brightness slider to very
high values, which would run down the battery quickly.
Its
Maximum Brightness of 394 cd / m2 and Contrast Rating for
High Ambient Light of 67 are also middle of the road, resulting in mediocre performance in Ambient Light.
high ambient lighting and depends on both the
Maximum Brightness and the Screen Reflectance.
More importantly, on the Galaxy Note 5 the
Maximum Brightness can go much
higher when Automatic
Brightness is turned On, so that users can't permanently park the Manual
Brightness slider to very
high values, which would run down the battery quickly.
On the Galaxy Note7 the
Maximum Screen
Brightness can go much
higher when Automatic
Brightness is turned On, so that users can't permanently park the Manual
Brightness slider to very
high values, which would run down the battery quickly.
When Automatic
Brightness is turned On, the Galaxy S6 reaches an impressive
maximum screen
Brightness of 784 cd / m2 (nits) in
high Ambient Light, where
high screen
Brightness is really needed — it is the Brightest mobile display that we have ever tested.
When Automatic
Brightness is turned On, the Galaxy S7 reaches an impressive
maximum screen
Brightness of up to 855 nits in
high Ambient Light, where
high screen
Brightness is really needed — it is tied with the Galaxy Note 5 for the Brightest mobile display that we have ever tested.
The Galaxy S7 has a
Maximum Brightness that is 24 %
higher than the Galaxy S6, which is a significant and visually noticeable improvement, particularly in
high ambient light.
The display's Contrast Rating for
high ambient light measures the screen's readability in ambient light and depends on both the screen reflectance and
maximum brightness.
High screen brightness is only needed when in high ambient light, so most of the time the brightness should be set lower than the maxi
High screen
brightness is only needed when in
high ambient light, so most of the time the brightness should be set lower than the maxi
high ambient light, so most of the time the
brightness should be set lower than the
maximum.
under
high ambient lighting and depends on both the
Maximum Brightness and the Screen Reflectance.
That's quite a big difference... Screen visibility and readability in
high Ambient Light depends on both the Maximum Brightness and Screen Reflectance, which we evaluate with a Contrast Rating for High Ambient Li
high Ambient Light depends on both the
Maximum Brightness and Screen Reflectance, which we evaluate with a Contrast Rating for
High Ambient Li
High Ambient Light.
Both of us noticed that the Kindle application on iPad seemed to have a
higher level of optimization for reading books under different ambient light conditions and would not exceed a certain level of
brightness, whereas iBooks had full hardware control over the back - light and could push it all the way to the
maximum luminosity.
Maximum brightness of the H8C measures at around 440 cd / m ² —
higher than most 1080p televisions, but slightly below average for HDR - devices.
The report also notes that the Note 8's
maximum screen
brightness can go much higher when the phone's Automatic Brightness feature is
brightness can go much
higher when the phone's Automatic
Brightness feature is
Brightness feature is turned on.
A
maximum brightness of just over 200 lux is the only
high point revealed in our benchmarks.
While the LG E7 OLED does a better job at displaying subtle levels of
high brightness for HDR content, the Sony tends to have more dazzling spectral highlights because it really juices bright detail to its
maximum.
Apple says burn - in can occur when the same
high contrast image is continuously displayed for prolonged periods of time, so the company suggests that users avoid displaying static images at
maximum brightness for long periods of time.
As the result of their very versatile power management capabilities, OLEDs are not only more power efficient than LCDs for most image content, but they now deliver much
higher peak
Brightness than LCDs because the
maximum power can be delivered to just the sub-pixels that are needed for producing the current image.
High screen
Brightness is only needed when in
High Ambient Light, so most of the time the
Brightness should be set lower than the
maximum.
But the
high - res AMOLED display lacks the accurate colour calibration of Samsung's superlative Note 4 display, which is clearly a newer part, and misses the
maximum brightness of LG's IPS - based G3.
As well as a color accuracy rating of «visually indistinguishable from perfect» across DCI - P3, RGB, and sRGB gamut standards, DisplayMate also highlighted the phone's
high brightness mode that is capable of hitting 1130 nits — 20 percent more than the Galaxy S8, but lower than the Note 8's
maximum output.
The new Pros are powerful machines, designed to handle any tasks hat you might be throwing at them, thanks to the latest i5 / i7 processors, separate GPUs, 16 GB of RAM (
maximum), flash storage with 3.1 GBps / 2.2 GBps read / write speeds and a display that offers better colors at
higher brightness levels than the previous gen MacBooks.
Outdoors in sunlight, the display is a tad dim, and I preferred to keep it at
maximum (or
high)
brightness than what was set automatically.
Power consumption is just over 16 watts at idle (with display at
maximum brightness) and reaches as
high as 72 watts at full load.
This means that in order to transition effectively from a room, for which
maximum brightness is usually too
high, one must dig into the Settings menu and adjust it manually.
Quite understandable that, given we are playing
high - end graphics on a full HD display with
maximum brightness.
Samsung's 2016 SUHD TVs will reportedly come equipped with
High Dynamic Range technology that has a
maximum brightness of up to 1,000 nits.
We measured 12 watts of power used at idle with the display at
maximum brightness, which is a bit
high.