Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Google Pixel 2 XL's display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Quite frankly poor overall. Second phone and the display is the best of many I have seen on other 2xls so im lucky
late8 said:
Quite frankly poor overall. Second phone and the display is the best of many I have seen on other 2xls so im lucky
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Poor like on a sunny day you can't see what's in the view finder for the camera app? Cause I've never experienced that and I'm with Adaptive Brightness on 35%. It could be brighter but definitely not poor.
Related
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Huawei Nexus 6P's display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Gets really bright, not as bright as Note5.
It may not be the very best according to some but I can perfectly see the screen without having to cover the phone from the sun while wearing my polarized sun glasses. This is with adaptive display turned on.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
No complaints... Better than I expected after reading some reviews
Yes
yes it has a gr8 screen
Really struggle compared to previous phones.
I have htc m8
..I see this one better and it's sunny at the moment of writing this. I guess if you're coming from a Samsung s6
Bigal77 said:
I have htc m8
..I see this one better and it's sunny at the moment of writing this. I guess if you're coming from a Samsung s6
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not overly bothered either way, comparison was against an S5 which I thought was marginally better.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using XDA Forums
When I got my 6p, my screen was a, sort of, two-tone. A light pink hue in the top left of my screen, that faded diagonally, to a bottom right, bluer hue. I was about to rma, even called Huawei. (Let's hope no one has to go through them) I thought it may be the back light calibration. So I downloaded lux, and voila, my colors were evenly distributed across my screen. And in turn, added a lil brightness outdoors. I turned lux off and my calibration is correct now. My screen, to me, looks a lil richer now and is pretty impressive. I'm coming from the Note 4 too.
Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
Better than the N6 when viewing in the sunlight...
Nice screen. Still prefer Note 5 screen.
it bright enough for me. I can see the screen in full daylight fine.
Coming from a Galaxy S4, the 6P gets More brighter, and More dimmer than the S4. Was not expecting this great of a screen after reading all the posts. Unlike the S4, your eyes wont hurt when you wanna read something in bed with the lights off!
readability
I know this is the wrong place to ask but does anybody has som feeling how the display is compared to Iphone 6 Plus in brightness outdoors?
Splifff said:
Coming from a Galaxy S4, the 6P gets More brighter, and More dimmer than the S4. Was not expecting this great of a screen after reading all the posts. Unlike the S4, your eyes wont hurt when you wanna read something in bed with the lights off!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Totally can relate. I came from an S4 and I noticed the brightness difference immediately.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
Bigal77 said:
No complaints... Better than I expected after reading some reviews
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
same here! love this phone.
I feel like I'm doing something wrong, because my experience has been the complete opposite of what everyone is saying here. The screen is fine indoors or out of direct sunlight, but in direct sunlight it's crazy hard to see. I have adaptive brightness off, and the brightness setting cranked. Just prior to this phone I'd tried out the Moto X Style, and while every review I read knocked that phone for its display, I feel like outdoor viewing was significantly better, and it didn't have any of the blotchy/uneven/pink hued issues that amoleds apparently have.
Outdoor visibility is extremely poor. Worse than my Nexus 5
Also really poor sunlight visibility here. RMA?
Adaptive Brightness
My 6p is bright enough for outside, but I have to be careful not to cover the sensor or the adaptive brightness will dim the screen.
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Samsung Galaxy S9+'s display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Really bright and vivid screen. Super shiny though so at times it can be hard to see the screen because of the reflections.
No viewing issues till date as the screen does crank up very high outdoors.
Outdoor visibility is great especially with Samsung their contrast that changes when it notices your in a bright lit area
These days i'm on the beach and the max brightness kicks in for ~2min from standby then it returns to normal brightness and i struggle to see on the screen. Thats in direct sunlight. I dont know why and how to enable to max when in sunlight.its very disappointing. Its from the heat? I use auto brightness and max brightness kicks in for a couple of min but then it dims and i cant use it . When i adjust the bar it says optimised for sun visibility. But it clearly isnt. All this in normal use.browsing ,some photos,whatsapp...
So for me its disapointing. This is when i need the max brightness most and it let me down
Been using the phone for over a year now in a Tropical Country and even in direct sunlight I have absolutely no issues with the brightness. The phone automatically cranks the display upto it's full potential when it senses a bright environment. Really can't expect it to be any better.
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Xiaomi Mi 9's display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
The display is so bright outside that it is a bit too bright. I sat under a beach umbrella in the shade and wanted to push the slider back to 80% but he went back to 100%. I tried it 3 times but the slider did not stay there. then I had to turn off the automatic brightness.
I give 5 stars, because I did not have such a bright screen yet.
No worries that I could not see anything on my mobile phone in the sunlight.
I would wish that the slider remains at 80% if I push it there manually.
If you are coming from LCD you notice straight away how vibrant and bright the colors are. No problems whatsoever (even with sunglasses on).
Mi9-the best phone on the market!
Execllent
I think it's a bit too low, fortunately on MIUI the auto contrast feature helps a lot
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Realme XT's display outdoors. In case you've been playing Minecraft for 18 months straight, you might not known how to get outside anymore. Well, find the door and walk through it. A higher rating indicates that it has very high maximum brightness and thus fantastic outdoor visibility in direct sunlight.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Outdoor visibility is not very good. Even at maximum brightness you will find yourself focusing your eyes to read what's on the screen.
Has anyone measured the nits for this phone?
on gsm arena there is a review with technical data.....447 nits
Bad outdoor visibility
You will noticed the screen is soo bad under outdoor situation.
I'm not sure with other people's experience but my phone's display is SO VERY BAD. Its very difficult to see the screen under direct sun light.
Mine also same. Very bad to see under direct sun light.
Hey ! I have the realme xt now for 3 days and I would like to add my review about that subject.
Since I use it, I've founded the outdoor visibility very awful, even in max brightness. I had to hardly focus on the screen to be able to read something... I come from a redmi note 7, and I begun to wonder if I did the good choice...
So I wanted to find out why the screen was so bad, when I realized that the battery saving mode was on ! And as soon as I turned it off, the screen came back to a normal brightness. Now when I compare it to my redmi note 7, the realme xt brightness is slightly better !!
It's pretty stupid, but maybe my message can help.
So now I don't find that the outdoor visibility is as bad as some people here are saying. Depending on which phone you compare maybe...
And for the price the phone is awesome by the way !
zone512 said:
Hey ! I have the realme xt now for 3 days and I would like to add my review about that subject.
Since I use it, I've founded the outdoor visibility very awful, even in max brightness. I had to hardly focus on the screen to be able to read something... I come from a redmi note 7, and I begun to wonder if I did the good choice...
So I wanted to find out why the screen was so bad, when I realized that the battery saving mode was on ! And as soon as I turned it off, the screen came back to a normal brightness. Now when I compare it to my redmi note 7, the realme xt brightness is slightly better !!
It's pretty stupid, but maybe my message can help.
So now I don't find that the outdoor visibility is as bad as some people here are saying. Depending on which phone you compare maybe...
And for the price the phone is awesome by the way !
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
OMG ! Thank you so much !!
Battery saving was on also on my phone and screen brightness was very low.....
I switched off and all is fine now !!
Disregarding reflections... How many nits does a mobile screen need for [for example] Google Maps to be perfectly visible under direct sunlight?
It's not just brightness but gamma as without boosting the colors they will look "washed out" in direct sunlight.
On some Samsung's you can set from "natural" to "vivid" for bright ambient light.
Meanwhile you're cooking your AMOLED, knocking hundreds or even thousands of hours off it's lifespan. Very hard on the battery too.
None. Eink.
Renate said:
None. Eink.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
E-ink is nice, but I just mentioned google maps as an example. I want to be able to see all my android apps in bright sunlight without having to find a shade.
white-k said:
E-ink is nice, but I just mentioned google maps as an example. I want to be able to see all my android apps in bright sunlight without having to find a shade.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I limit time in direct sunlight to seconds as it's literally burning up pixels, battery and SOT.
One hot running session in direct sunlight can degrade an Li battery or worse. So even if you plan to replace the device every year you may still face issues.
white-k said:
E-ink is nice, but I just mentioned google maps as an example.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Eink is nice and I just showed (my own) mapping app in Android as an example.
Stop beating around the bush. Someone please write an actual nits value.
Generally, a brightness level of around 1000 -1500 nits must be sufficient for outdoor usage even under direct sunlight but there are a few high-end smartphones and tabs that come with over 2000 nits which are designed for the sole purpose of using under direct sunlight.
But it is also worth noting that, the brightness of a display alone may not be sufficient to ensure good visibility in direct sunlight. There are other factors which also affect outdoor visibility like anti-glare coatings, polarization filters, and high contrast ratios.
nancymary101 said:
Generally, a brightness level of around 1000 -1500 nits must be sufficient for outdoor usage even under direct sunlight but there are a few high-end smartphones and tabs that come with over 2000 nits which are designed for the sole purpose of using under direct sunlight.
But it is also worth noting that, the brightness of a display alone may not be sufficient to ensure good visibility in direct sunlight. There are other factors which also affect outdoor visibility like anti-glare coatings, polarization filters, and high contrast ratios.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for a very good response!