Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Samsung Galaxy Note 8'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!
Note 8 has the most advance Amoled display, it is the strongest part.
I expected better outdoor visibility , at least better than note7's
Could be better outdoors, but would have to sacrifice the high gloss display and nobody is going for that.
Awesome outdoor visibility no issue so far
well, when one goes for a sunny trip could apply a cheap matte screen film. In this way can read without seeing the face, considering that is still the best phone for outdoor visibility. the definitive solution as are years I speak in a mobile reading forum would be a cover eink that takes the content of the main screen, even a separate bluetooth one. Samsung is really no smart on that. Apparently I heard about licence problems with amazon that bought a kind of yotaphone licence in eu and us, but on the other side a separate small flexible bt device would make the battery of the samsung note 8 last forever, would make it ideal to read, seeing google maps on the bike or even consulting the phone with one hand in dangerous places, or when can fall, and would be a great ereader because actual ereaders are really sluggish, it takes ages to open a dedicated ereader going to the page, etc, instead transferring the images in real time would be an amazing profit opportunity. It would find bilions of enthusiastic users, and great plus, because of the independent hardware accessory nature, could be compatible with all the samsung models. I do not know if are the companies are stupid, or my self that I am giving for free such a valuable hint that could even survive to the flex screens
I can see the display on my Note 8 in direct sunlight in Hong Kong.
Related
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the OnePlus 7'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!
Everything vs. my s9 has been a big upgrade except wireless charging (meh) and this (Absolutely awful, massive downgrade)
Considering I largely bought it for a better experience with Pokemon Go and Ingress, not noticing the poor brightness was a bit of a mistake... on a nice day it's barely usable...
Gonna confirm what @Cloudane said.
Outdoor visibility sucks compared to my previous phone (s8), but I hope because lower brightness it won't get burn in like s8 did.
It does have the benefits of lower screen burn risk and longer outdoor battery life admittedly so it's not all bad, just a bit of a shock coming from an s9. I also don't think the factory screen protector helps, it's relatively opaque (you can tell at the edges) and causes a lot of glare. I'm wondering if the bare screen has an anti reflective coating but have a glass protector on the way which should at least improve it.
Same here. It's noticeable downgrade in outdoor visibility for me coming from Samsung Galaxy S7. It's still usable but my S7 was just better outdoor.
A little re-evaluation: In fairness, whilst it's not on par with a Samsung screen outdoors, I was using it on some very sunny days at the weekend and it was still adequately usable. Pokemon Go (light background) was easier to see than Ingress Prime (dark background). It was only a problem when angled so that the display is directly facing the sun, a problem that can be solved by moving slightly
Also it seems there's no polarising filter which probably doesn't help matters but there's a positive to that: I was able to wear polarising sunglasses without them 'interfering' as they do on some other phones. I found no difference in visibility with the glasses on or off.
Getting rid of that factory fitted screen protector and installing a glass one also helped a bit. The factory one gets all smudged up.
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Google Pixel 3a 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!
It's one of its weaknesses. I can't recall owning any phone that was lacking this bad in outdoor brightness. Maybe my LG G6, but that was because of the adaptive lighting was messed up, soon I took it off from auto brightness, the phone was bright. Not this one though.
Outdoor visibly is acceptable. If you want to out on a super sunny day and enjoy a movie or game on the go, this is not for you.
If you are trying to do a call, look at a map, or some e-mail, you can see the screen, hard, but you can.
I had worse devices (laptop, tablets, old phones) than this. What would make this screen better for outdoor viewing is something my old phone did, and that is play with the panel contrast setting. Horrible for images, video and such, but for text, it helped make it more readable. Would be nice if all phones did this (would also help battery life), but sadly, that is not the case
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6'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!
So far I am underwhelmed by the tablets lies about turning off adaptive display. shine your camera flash light at the tab camera and it will get brighter even if you turned OFF adaptive display this is also true under MAX brightness. So the only way to get full brightness is shining a light at the camera array. Lol what a joke. Scrolling at 30-40 fps is also dumb. SAME 855 in my 90hz one plus 7pro and Its scrolls at 90fps. Don't try and say well the tab s6 has a bigger screen. Pixel density is almost the same. So no it must be the screen itself being subpar "more specifically the hardware driving the panel itself". What a disaster... I waited 6 months for this thing to come out and they ruined their own tablet to save what 20bucks in display hardware. WTF Samsung. Hdr content is lacking in any meaningful way. Side by side with my tab s1 1440p looks the same!!!! Oh man.. I hope all this can be fixed by the brilliant amazing people that here. "Most likely yes they can and they will" but I expected more from samsung out of the $700 box. A whole lot more. so now I have to wait a couple months till the kernels and roms are available. Sighs Haha the marketing people must be running samsung. I wanted this to show me the 400nits of hdr goodness.
Display looks amazing...period
Actually I also find that it is too dim, even on max brightness. I upgraded from the Tab S4, which was also too dim, but it is brighter than the Tab S6
XDA_RealLifeReview said:
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6'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!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I rate it 10 out of 10.
I have both the s6 and s4. The s6 is definitely the brighter of the 2. The s6 is so bright no one in my family can look at it with out it hurting their eyes, but I use vivid with cool, and red, green turned all the way down. I'm typing this to u in direct sunlight with snow all over so even brighter and its in night mode and I can see everything fine. It is way brighter than my old s9 and razer phone 2. Also this generation has done was better on white screens, the s4 and s9 both have a very visible green to pink tinted parts of the screen depending how your holding it. This doesn't seem to have any of that, and I've had my hands on 3 samsung s6 tabs.
Is there a workaround to put it into full brightness mode via software. I bought this tablet mainly for showing pics to client and the brightness limitation is a big issue
Simply the best!
abs0lut3z33r0 said:
Is there a workaround to put it into full brightness mode via software. I bought this tablet mainly for showing pics to client and the brightness limitation is a big issue
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You just pull down the quick settings, and slide brightness to the max. Also disable the blue light filter (also from quick settings).
You can also go into settings/display and change the screen mode from natural to vivid - it'll make pictures appear to be brighter by artificially boosting colors. It looks great, but it's not color correct (if that's a concern for you). I'm sure there are photographers and graphic artists out there who have a heart attack at the mere mention of the vivid mode, but to each their own. Personally, I like it.
Some gallery apps (I use Simple Gallery Pro) have the option to automatically turn brightness to 100% when displaying a picture. That should solve your problem nicely.
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Sony Xperia 1 II'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!
Received phone last week, was concerned about screen brightness outdoors after reading internet reviews...not sure if they tweaked it before launch but there is no issues in direct sunlight..
leicablue said:
Received phone last week, was concerned about screen brightness outdoors after reading internet reviews...not sure if they tweaked it before launch but there is no issues in direct sunlight..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
so, you can see the apps, you can write easily in direct sunlight?
thanks
I am usually very fussy when it comes to sunlight legibility and I have had many phones, but this seems more than fine for normal usage outdoors. It's no iPhone but certainly not as bad as some reviewers make it out.
Auntomatic bright on
Enviado desde mi J9110 mediante Tapatalk
It's actually not very bright in direct sunlight. Was out on the back porch with it today, noticed it right away.
Not bright enough by far for me. Compared to other flagship phones I've used, S20, p40 pro, oppo find X pro all better
Not bright enough for me in direct sunlight. Auto brightness is weaker than last year's 1. Hope this can be sorted in software later.
It could use a bit more brightness indeed. Sometimes while taking photos when it's very sunny, it can be a bit hard to see the screen.
Not bright at all coming from the S20+ and P30 Pro. Great screen resolution but utterly abject brightness for some reason.
Rate this thread to express how well you can see the Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC'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!
poco x3 is a such mid-range device with such lovely specs but what i don't like is its outdoor visibility cause i can't read texts or see colors easily and it make my eyes feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately this is a hardware problem and can't be fixed by an update so if you're really serious about maximum brightness poco x3 isn't an adequate phone for this.
Adameur said:
poco x3 is a such mid-range device with such lovely specs but what i don't like is its outdoor visibility cause i can't read texts or see colors easily and it make my eyes feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately this is a hardware problem and can't be fixed by an update so if you're really serious about maximum brightness poco x3 isn't an adequate phone for this.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Any smartphone in this price range has these problems, most are even worse, what I did is putting a matte glass protector on it, now it´s fantastic even in the worst conditions, I don´t even need 100% display bright anymore, the difference is HUGE.
gessler2244 said:
Any smartphone in this price range has these problems, most are even worse, what I did is putting a matte glass protector on it, now it´s fantastic even in the worst conditions, I don´t even need 100% display bright anymore, the difference is HUGE.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That actually sounds like a great idea. Could you please post the link to that matte glass protector? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Thanks.
elchuby said:
That actually sounds like a great idea. Could you please post the link to that matte glass protector? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I bought 3(always some breaks after some time..) of these : https://pt.aliexpress.com/item/1005001720877033.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.fd462e0eQDJBsy
Short answer: No more than 420nits on X3 and X3 pro units I have had experience with.
Long answer: Before X3 NFC I had Oppo A5 2020 with Maximum 480 nits advertised brightness.
Now I have a Poco X3 and my brother has a Poco M3
If I compare my X3 with Poco M3 (400 nits advertised) and Oppo A5 2020 (480nits max advertised) and consider that other phones perform at their advertised brightness.
I perceive that X3's maximum brightness is no more than 420 nits indoors and outdoors both. There's a shift in screen contrast / gamma value which ruins picture quality but no 550-630 nits boost I read about in reviews.
I think Xiaomi uses multiple grades of hardware components for same device.
Review units and the units sold in EU and Wealthy Middle Eastern countries like KSA, UAE etc are made with A Grade components
While those sold in India, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia etc are made with B grade components. Although some A quality units make their way to these countries too but those are rare. (I guess varies by available stock and warranty providers e.g. there are 4+ distributors/ warranty providers) of Xiaomi phones in Pakistan.