Not exact matches
Tablets and Smartphones are all used under a
very wide range of
ambient lighting conditions that are frequently much
brighter than for other displays — like laptops, desktops, and HDTVs.
There is
very little information (other than anecdotal) on how Tablet and Smartphone displays perform and degrade under
bright ambient lighting.
There is
very little information (other than anecdotal) on how Smartphone and Tablet displays perform and degrade under
bright ambient lighting.
For smart watches the display is the key and a major new challenge because they need to be
very small,
very thin, and have major power constraints to maintain a greater than 1 day battery running time, yet they must deliver
bright images in
very high
ambient light.
When Automatic Brightness is turned On, the Galaxy S9 has a High Brightness Mode that produces up to a
very impressive 1,130 cd / m2 (nits) in High
Ambient Light, which is where high Brightness is really needed, up to 20 %
Brighter than the Galaxy S8.
However, just like their Smartphones, Nokia is emphasizing the display's performance in high
ambient light with «Enhanced outdoor readability,» most likely indicating a
very bright and low reflectance screen.
The screen is
very bright and
very sharp, has excellent color and gray scale accuracy, and has
very good Contrast and readability under both dim and
bright ambient light.
· Another
very noticeable and major improvement for the Galaxy Note8 is the display is 22 %
Brighter than the Galaxy S8, with a Peak Display Brightness of over 1,200 nits, a new Record for Smartphones, which provides significantly improved display performance and screen readability in challenging indoor and outdoor high
ambient light viewing conditions.
The screen is extremely, almost excessively shiny and we had significant problems with reflection if we tried turning the brightness down; turn off the power saving
ambient light sensor and you get a
bright and
very colourful screen that's much easier to see (but that uses up rather more battery - a quarter of the battery life gone in under 2 hours).
One more interesting point - it seems that the S4 has
very low screen reflectance (in fact DisplayMate says it's got one of the smallest values it ever tested)- and this means that the display performs great in high
ambient lighting - even though it's not
very bright compared to the iPhone 5 display (the S4 is
brighter though than most LCD smartphones).
Mini Tablets fill an important need and will undoubtedly continue to grow in market share, so it's
very important for manufacturers to understand how to optimize their smaller displays in
brighter ambient lighting environments to deliver both top picture quality and long battery running time.
The Master Photo Grid combines the Screen Shots from our Tablet Displays Under
Bright Ambient Lighting Shoot - Out and Smartphone Displays Under
Bright Ambient Lighting Shoot - Out articles in a compact format that makes visual comparisons and spotting trends
very easy.
So the ad has two people indoors, one can read his iPad because the screen is illuminated, the other can't read their Kindle
very well because the
ambient light is not
bright enough.
While the display can get
very bright, I found its
ambient light - sensing auto brightness setting favored dimming the screen a bit too much.