Nokia Lumia 900 screen with ClearBlack tech takes the smartphone crown in outdoor visibility

9. LordOfTroll (banned) posted on 08 May 2012, 12:16 4 3

I have a paper that doesn't reflect any light, lol motosheep.

30. jnkAL posted on 18 May 2012, 12:33 0 0

Damn you must be amazing then. Able to see a completely non reflective paper.

Really absolutely amazing. How do you do it? Some kind of zen sense? Or maybe you can prophecy what's on the paper?

14. Penny posted on 08 May 2012, 15:18 1 1

Thanks for the interesting information zvadim. Please ignore the TRUE SHEEP that do not want to even hear anybody else talking about tech from companies that they are not interested in.

3. simplyj posted on 08 May 2012, 11:36 4 3

I'm getting tired of AMOLED. At first I loved it, but now I hate it. I really like the screen on the HTC Titan, which I believe is a Super LCD

25. christianqwerty posted on 08 May 2012, 17:24 2 0

The one thing i didn't like about the super amoled screen was the burn in effect. i paid top dollar for my samsung focus when it came out, and i could see things burned in the screen, after a few months!

7. networkdood posted on 08 May 2012, 11:59 1 3

I still use my SGS Cappy - got ICS On it and it runs great. Might be older tech for the screen, but it is still very good.

8. remixfa posted on 08 May 2012, 12:03 2 4

ICS on my Vibrant is the bomb. And thats hurting me. My wife is questioning why i "need" a new phone now, if the latest OS runs butter smooth on my phone.. lol. GRRRR. I might have to accidentally break my phone on SGS3 launch day to justify it... woops.. lol

12. PimpStrong posted on 08 May 2012, 12:40 1 2

Man up man and buy that motherf---er whenever your good and ready lol.

I'm lucky, my wife has evolved like this:
MyTouch 3G
MyTouch 4G
Sensation 4G
and now she wants the Note!!

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24. remixfa posted on 08 May 2012, 16:53 0 0

I doubt my wife will ever go that big. She's been through more phones in the last 2 years than I have since nothing has really beat my SGS1 in tinkerability and power. American S2's have a weaker GPU and the power increase is so minimal that its not worth the money.

She was on a dual core phone for a while but for some reason ended up with a MT4G and is quite happy with it.

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18. Penny posted on 08 May 2012, 15:59 1 0

If they were comparing overall display quality, then you would have a point. In this article, they were specifically looking at outdoor visibility. The ClearBlack filter is more effective at reducing reflectance of external light than even the best of current Super Amoled Plus screens right now that do not have the same filter. Higher pixel density shouldn't have much of an effect on outdoor visibility; the primary factors of outdoor visibility are actually display brightness and low light reflectance.

23. remixfa posted on 08 May 2012, 16:51 0 0

Super amoled + screens are a bit brighter than the older super amoled screens, so that directly affects outdoor visibility. The test needs to be run against current phones to give current viability. This test woulda been great.. in 2010.

29. jackhammeR posted on 11 May 2012, 16:41 0 0

even the S III is not as good as Nokia 900 in terms of reflectivity.
Nokia's CBD technology works really good.

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20. -box- posted on 08 May 2012, 16:35 0 0

The ClearBlack display tech is still pretty good, even compared to other technologies. Nokia had it on some of their non-AMOLED screens as well.

One thing I didn't know (but after reading this article on Gizmodo, found out) that Samsung actually makes (at least some of) the screens for the Lumia 900. So there is a chance their phones would be competitive, but not sure if they're licensed to use Nokia's ClearBlack for their own products

27. jackhammeR posted on 11 May 2012, 16:39 0 0

this "only" cbd makes the difference. Huge. believe me.

15. Mobile-X-Pert posted on 08 May 2012, 15:42 0 0

it says: ´´and can only be matched by the original Galaxy S´´ which means that not even the galaxy S2 comes close to that. In other word the Samsung Galaxy S has a better screen reflectance ratio than the S2.

16. Mobile-X-Pert posted on 08 May 2012, 15:46 2 0

The Samsung Galaxy S has a better screen reflectance ratio than the S2.

17. Penny posted on 08 May 2012, 15:46 1 0

I wish they did, so people wouldn't be able to use this excuse. The ClearBlack filter or whatever Nokia uses is known to provide the best outdoor visibility of currently implemented mobile screen technology. That includes the Super Amoled +. Higher pixel density/resolution makes little difference with outdoor visibility. The biggest factors for outdoor visibility are display brightness and external light reflectance (or lack thereof).