Has anyone found a cell phone that they can see in bright sun, ideally with polarized sunglasses on?
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I wish. However I do have a Samsung S23+ that is much brighter than the older phone I used.
Look at the brightness specs and compare to the spec of what you have now.
Chartplotters have good screens that can be seen in bright sunlight, so I know that it is technically possible.
Look at the brightness specs and compare to the spec of what you have now.
Chartplotters have good screens that can be seen in bright sunlight, so I know that it is technically possible.
Most (all?) modern phones use OLED/AMOLED screens which aren't subject to the polarization problems of LCD screens - at least they aren't supposed to be. I get a little polarization "fog" at certain angles, looking at any screen, but not enough to really bother me.
I have the same phone as Rich and find it plenty bright. But, to be fair, I have to take my sunglasses off and put reading glasses on to see my screen anyway. So, I don't do a lot of looking at it with sunglasses. It has a peak brightness of 1750 nits which is pretty respectable. But, in the past couple of years some screens have been getting a lot brighter. The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL, for example, is something like 3300 nits, and there are a few other phones in that range.
But ... manufacturers like to publish "peak brightness" which doesn't really tell you what you want to know. This just tells you the maximum brightness that can be momentarily achieved in a small area on the screen. It doesn't tell you the actual brightness of the screen in a way that tells you how readable it will be. For this, you want to know the "full-screen" brightness, which is rarely published without doing some digging.
Fortunately, a screen with a higher peak brightness will also tend to have a higher full-screen brightness. They are more or less colinear. Just make sure you don't compare the "peak" brightness of one phone with the "full-screen" or "typical" brightness of another.
I have the same phone as Rich and find it plenty bright. But, to be fair, I have to take my sunglasses off and put reading glasses on to see my screen anyway. So, I don't do a lot of looking at it with sunglasses. It has a peak brightness of 1750 nits which is pretty respectable. But, in the past couple of years some screens have been getting a lot brighter. The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL, for example, is something like 3300 nits, and there are a few other phones in that range.
But ... manufacturers like to publish "peak brightness" which doesn't really tell you what you want to know. This just tells you the maximum brightness that can be momentarily achieved in a small area on the screen. It doesn't tell you the actual brightness of the screen in a way that tells you how readable it will be. For this, you want to know the "full-screen" brightness, which is rarely published without doing some digging.
Fortunately, a screen with a higher peak brightness will also tend to have a higher full-screen brightness. They are more or less colinear. Just make sure you don't compare the "peak" brightness of one phone with the "full-screen" or "typical" brightness of another.
My solution to the problem is polarized sunglasses that have built in tinted but not polarized readers. In my case, I wear them over contacts but still need a reader for close up seeing. I chose the 1.5 diopter that lets me see up close at a reasonable distance away. I understand that the diopter numbers for readers are not magnification but the reciprocal of the focus distance in meters. So a diopter of 2.0 focal point is 1/2 meter or about 18 inches. They also work great in my car being able to glance down at the instruments and then straight ahead for distance. Cheap bifocals. Here is the Amazon link.
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SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
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The new Apple phones boast 1000 nits of screen in normal state, 2000 nits outside.
The Samsung Galaxy S24 claims 2600nit brightness on their screen.
Polarized sunglasses will operate better based on the new screen design, over the older LCD screens which go black when observed thru polarized glasses.
The Samsung Galaxy S24 claims 2600nit brightness on their screen.
Polarized sunglasses will operate better based on the new screen design, over the older LCD screens which go black when observed thru polarized glasses.
apparently these devises do work to make phone calls also but does anyone actually use them for that?
Mine didn't come with a dial.apparently these devises do work to make phone calls also but does anyone actually use them for that?
But, seriously:
I used to manage a team of software developers who were all born after about 1995. There was once a sincere discussion in the office about why we say "dial" a phone. One or two people knew the real reason, but I was the only one in the room who had actually used, much less seen a rotary phone. Two people claimed they had never spoken on their own phone (except by video chat). One person claimed to never have never placed an actual phone call.