SPRINT Motorola PHOTON 4G vs Samsung Within vs HTC Mazaa - Page 4

**cornelious2** · #31 (**permalink**) 09-15-2011, 02:51 PM

Yea I find while the specs aren't as good factoring in the sunlight viewing of the pentile and the reception far out weigh. A benchmark only realized e-peen score.

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**gTen** · #32 (**permalink**) 09-15-2011, 03:54 PM

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Yea I find while the specs aren't as good factoring in the sunlight viewing of the pentile and the reception far out weigh. A benchmark only realized e-peen score.

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you mean the pentile on the photon? Though I don't think pentile has any real effect as far as readability in sunlight really :/

**cornelious2** · #33 (**permalink**) 09-15-2011, 09:14 PM

It's amazingly better to read in sunlight then samoled or retna or slcd

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**gTen** · #34 (**permalink**) 09-16-2011, 01:07 AM

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It's amazingly better to read in sunlight then samoled or retna or slcd

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To note, the sg2 is samoled+ which is better then regular samoled..

That said the best display for outside on a cellphone atm is the NOVA display..is that what the motorola photon uses?

The NOVA display has a 700nit brightness which is pretty crazy..considering even the best laptops have 300nit displays..and 1 or 2 laptops have a 400nit display.

Super amoled has around 305nit (according to LG)...not sure about super amoeld plus..and iphone is at 500nit(according to LG)

**cornelious2** · #35 (**permalink**) 09-16-2011, 10:16 AM

Not sure but side by side photon is readable in direct sunlight when you can't even see the screen on the iPhone.

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**darren.wlsn1** · #36 (**permalink**) 09-16-2011, 10:33 AM

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Not sure but side by side photon is readable in direct sunlight when you can't even see the screen on the iPhone.

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im in sunlight now and photon actually looks little better than touch 4g but neither look really any good. lol

**gTen** · #37 (**permalink**) 09-16-2011, 12:40 PM

I'll tell you this..if you want decent sunlight view-ability..the display has to be matte and 400nit+...all the cellphone displays are reflective..hence making it harder to see..that said on my epic I know for one if background is black and text is white I can see that pretty good due to the high contrast

**cornelious2** · #38 (**permalink**) 09-18-2011, 12:21 PM

do you guys have the brightness down? I can easily read black text on white background with this. its not perfect but I had do do the hand shadow with my epic to even hope to read it before. now its easily readable.

**gTen** · #39 (**permalink**) 09-18-2011, 01:19 PM

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do you guys have the brightness down? I can easily read black text on white background with this. its not perfect but I had do do the hand shadow with my epic to even hope to read it before. now its easily readable.

I keep my phones at automatic brightness adjust..in sunlight its at max...

mulhiny · #40 (**permalink**) 09-24-2011, 08:34 AM

I just recently upgraded to the Photon. It was a toss up for me between the Photon and the Galaxy S 2..I chose the Photon for practical reasons, more than raw power. It has gorilla glass (S2 does also). I'm a machinist and the tougher the phone the better. The Photon has the longest talk time rating. I go to school 2 nights a week so I often pull 17 hour days away from the charger. Finally, the Photon has a higher screen resolution. It's 100 pixels shy of the iPhone Retina display and it shows. It's very nice. Anyway, I guess my point is to look at all features of a phone and pick what really is going to suit you, not simply what is the newest or has the fastest processor spec.