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Shulman
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Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:47 am |
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I am new to the world of cellphones and to this forum. I notice that the LED display on my Motorola phone is unviewable outdoors. How do cell phone users use them in out of doors? I've tried to increase the brightness, but it doesn't help. I also try to block direct sun by making shade, but the screen is still unviewable. I'm sure that this has been addressed before but I can't locate the information. Can you help? Thanks.
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mikekay10
Posts: 2959
Service Provider:
Vodafone |
Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:30 am |
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Every colour screened mobile I have ever owned has had this problem. Its just the technology used - I am led to believe phones with OLED screens may be better when/if they appear
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Shulman
Posts: 18 |
Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:48 am |
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Thanks. I meant to say that I see folks using the LCD screens out in bright sunlight. What's their secret? You'd think the phone companies would find a way to address the problem of a washed-out screen outdoors. Would a sunshade help?
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gerio
Posts: 406
Phone Model:
Motorola Q9 Global (iPhone-free zone)
Service Provider:
AT&T & Cellular South |
Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:54 am |
If they say that they aren't at least struggling to read their screen outdoors, then they are lying. Any kind of shade will help, the more the better. Something else that a lot of folks don't know is to not let the phone sit in direct sunlight for more than a few minutes and preferably not at all. One of my crewguys just chunked an expensive Fluke DVM (digital voltmeter) because it sat in the afternoon sun for 3 or so hours. Now the screen is totally blank and the repair was nearly as much as a new unit.
Geri O
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transgenic452
Posts: 9 |
Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:21 pm |
It's too bad they don't use a display coating technology that I've seen on cockpit avionics displays.
You can have the sun full-on at your back, and shining into the screen, and there is NO reflection of the sunlight, and NO washing out of the display. Anything displayed on the screen is visible just as if you were looking at it in a dark room. You can display a totally black screen and it will look 100% black...not grey, now washed out...a deep black. It was actually kind of eerie.
The only problem was, the display lens had an optical transmissivity of something like 5%, so you had to pump some seriously high intensity backlighting into the image.
That was all over 15 years ago...I would think things have improved a lot since then.
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