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| Thread ID: 126487 | 2012-08-31 01:56:00 | Laptop screens in the sun etc. | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1298061 | 2012-08-31 01:56:00 | Hi, I have a laptop that is some years old. Just typing now in the backyard in the shade. I am just wondering with the new stuff out there which I am not in tuned with, how do they fair when used outside with some sun. My Symbian C6-01 Nokia which has a capacitative screens seems a lot better. Have laptops/pads etc .. been similar? Thanks. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1298062 | 2012-08-31 02:27:00 | how do they fair when used outside with some sun. In terms of what? Readability? anti-glare? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1298063 | 2012-08-31 02:46:00 | Mostly, the screen looks very dark even in some shade area. I have upped the brightness to the max. Also maybe that I see dust marks on the screen and reflection of myself. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1298064 | 2012-08-31 03:16:00 | That is the problem you will find with all internally-lit screens. For viewing outside or in other brightly lit areas, screens which rely on ambient light (Like E-Ink\E-Paper) work much better. Unfortunately E-Ink displays are not very good for anything besides eBook viewing (no video\scrolling or otherwise moving images) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1298065 | 2012-09-01 03:13:00 | Displays such as AMOLED (not sure what their non-phone variant is called, is it OLED?) have less of an issue in sunlight because of they way they work. Unlike a traditional LCD where several diffusion layers are present along with a reflective sheet to spread light, AMOLED screens produce the light in each pixel cell. The benefit here is that in bright light doesn't reflect off of the diffusion layers and wash out the image. It's not perfect by any means but it IS better. Other benefits from OLED include better vibrancy/colour, no light leakage from cells resulting in better contrast and improved battery life to mention a few. Hopefully research will produce some new displays over the next 10 years. The last 10 have been pretty good (from CRT to LCD) and improvements in LCD technology have been great. |
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