Where can I find a cell phone review website that regularly covers being able to read the screen outdoors?
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Many phone manufacturers are coming out with what is called a "Light Sensing Screen" which automatically adjusts the screen lighting levels for indoor and outdoor viewing. The Newer RIM (Blackberry) Devices are equipped with this option.
Also, try the N73 music edition. It has an automatic sensor that can detect the amount of light and adjust the brightness accordingly.
And lastly, there's this:
Spotted on Yanko Design -
"Where normally tinted UV blocking lenses would cut the glare of the sun, these “Reed Screen Sunglasses” by Sang Jang Lee use the ancient eastern practice of reed screens to block the sun’s blinding glare."
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the error was on my part not the database or system error. Thanks
Glad that's straightened out. Unfortunately, that website doesn't cover anything at all regarding outdoor screen viewability, they cover very few phones, and the ones covered aren't the ones I'm interested in. Thanks for trying though.
What I'm looking for is a website that perhaps someone already considers their "go-to" site that reliably does reviews of a large variety of phones, and as part of their testing process takes the phone outside to see how it fairs.
Either a database problem, or user error, but this is SO not the answer to my posted question :-p
Whatever happened, it's fixed now, and the answer is appropriate. But the site won't let me delete my comment :( Fix it JCal!
Great response. Having a light-sensing screen is my next-best option, but unfortunately those just increase the backlight to compete with the sun if it's a touch-screen phone, or probably turn the brightness down if it's a non-touchscreen phone. What I'd really like is for the phone's readability outdoors to be great on its own, at about half-brightness.
I guess I'm just asking for a website that doesn't exist, and I'll have to do some manual investigating about the outdoor readability of each phone I'm interested in as they come up