For me, the radiation emitted by these devices was so intense (even
at lower brightness settings) that my eyes watered and burned to the point where I was forced to quit.
Can you please compare the Oasis inverted mode with Kobo Aura One blue light filter,
with lowest brightness settings, under dark lighting conditions (at night)?
I'd still rather read with a whitish background but the Glowlight 3's take on night mode is surprisingly good, especially
at lower brightness settings.
The second big payoff is that the display can then be viewed with
a lower Brightness setting, which improves the running time on battery — something all users care about that provides a significant competitive edge.
Apparently
the lowest brightness setting on the Onyx is quite bright, whereas the light on the Aura HD can be set to almost nothing.
Lower Screen Reflectance: Lowering the screen Reflectance will allow the consumer to use
a lower Brightness setting and still conveniently see the display.
In apps, when I use the Fire in bed, the screen is too bright even at
the lowest brightness setting.
On taobao, they say that there are some updates to the T68 which fixes
the lowest brightness settings (v1.63), fixes the touch (v1.65) and that v1.7 which will be released in April will upgrade the android to v4.4 from v4.0 which is supposed to increase the performance.
Ninety percent of the time it's virtually undetectable, especially when using auto brightness and on
lower brightness settings, so it's really not as big of an issue as it would seem.
You can barely see them if you tilt the device just right, and they always remain on when the device is on, even at
the lowest brightness setting.
One problem I have, though, is that
the lowest brightness setting still seems too bright at night with all the lights turned off.
Even with the display set to «night display» (black background / white text), my eyes felt like they were on fire the while time I was reading, even at
the lowest brightness settings.
You notice the sharper text all the more and you suffer none of the eye - strain that tablet a generates even at
its lowest brightness setting.
It's always on, even at
the lowest brightness setting.
The gentle backlight doesn't cause any eye strain, even when you're using one of
the lower brightness settings, and it is even usable in direct sunlight.
Since the display consumes the most device power, the Running Times at
lower Brightness settings will be longer.
The 1280 x 800 pixel TFT screen is one of the better ones in the market today and feature a wide videwing angle, great colour depth and clarity even when using
the lowest brightness settings.
The lighting appears mostly white in tone and is noticeably brighter than the Kindle Paperwhite and Nook Glow at the highest and
lowest brightness settings.
In a mostly but not totally dark room,
the lowest brightness setting was enough to read with, but at full bore the GlowLight gets almost as bright as an iPad.
The Low Brightness settings are not always bare minimum.
Its color palette is bright and perfectly chosen, its textures look good, and even with the system on
the lowest brightness settings, World Invitational seems to illuminate the room.
What about
the lowest brightness setting and wireless turned off?
That's only when tasked with playing a thoroughly unchallenging game on
low brightness settings, though.
We found that even
the lowest brightness setting had too much glow in a dark bedroom, and resorted to putting it face down or turning it off at night.
The lowest brightness setting gets down to just 2.1 nits, which is dark enough that I can't see it at all outside, but I'm happy the setting exists since I love to read in bed at night.
The differences between each mode aren't incredibly noticeable at
low brightness settings, but once you crank up the brightness, you really do start to notice how much deeper colours become in Super-vivid mode.
These apps apply overlays to your screen to make the display even darker than
its lowest brightness setting.
Whether you're browsing the web on Wi - Fi or watching a video, generally the tablet lasts at least nine hours, if not more if you use
a low brightness setting.
I wouldn't usually watch films at such
a low brightness setting on the Xperia Z5 Premium, as the picture is nowhere near as vibrant, but we run this test to see how much battery life you can save by turning down the screen brightness when maximum brightness isn't essential.
When you're using the One outdoors, the handset rarely suffers from glare or reflections either, even on
its lower brightness settings.
When we were trekking in the Outer Hebrides the conditions were especially bright and we had already set our Gear Fit to
a lower brightness setting to conserve battery, making it impossible to see at times.