So I've been stoked about this phone ever since it was announced, and finally got a chance to play around with it today in a Verizon store...and I was seriously BLOWN AWAY by how DIM the maximum brightness is!
I was playing with the RAZR MAXX HD before because people were on the DNA, and I was like wow, if this is the Motorola screen, the DNA one will be even better! It's crisp, but the first thing I did was think to myself like "wow, why is it on such a low brightness?" so I found the settings and to my utter shock, it WAS on the maximum brightness!
I knew that it wasn't the brightest phone on the market right now, but honestly the maximum brightness wasn't even like, ACCEPTABLE to me! I keep my current Droid Incredible 2 (so HTC!) on the lowest brightness option from the widget, so about 30%, and it was STILL brighter than the 100% DNA! Like how is this possible? I figured the technology came further than that than my current phone's 30% is brighter just by a little than the full potential of the DNA! The DNA only had 11% battery life, so I'm not sure if it was something with that, but I repeatedly made sure it was 100% and it was, it just didn't make sense! Completely lower than the RAZR MAXX HD, and iPhone 5 by a LOT!
Was there something wrong with it or is that just how it is? Is it because it's so high of a resolution that it would just take way too much power to make every single pixel THAT bright?
Honestly major selling point for me there, the whites were basically like, gray!
I was playing with the RAZR MAXX HD before because people were on the DNA, and I was like wow, if this is the Motorola screen, the DNA one will be even better! It's crisp, but the first thing I did was think to myself like "wow, why is it on such a low brightness?" so I found the settings and to my utter shock, it WAS on the maximum brightness!
I knew that it wasn't the brightest phone on the market right now, but honestly the maximum brightness wasn't even like, ACCEPTABLE to me! I keep my current Droid Incredible 2 (so HTC!) on the lowest brightness option from the widget, so about 30%, and it was STILL brighter than the 100% DNA! Like how is this possible? I figured the technology came further than that than my current phone's 30% is brighter just by a little than the full potential of the DNA! The DNA only had 11% battery life, so I'm not sure if it was something with that, but I repeatedly made sure it was 100% and it was, it just didn't make sense! Completely lower than the RAZR MAXX HD, and iPhone 5 by a LOT!
Was there something wrong with it or is that just how it is? Is it because it's so high of a resolution that it would just take way too much power to make every single pixel THAT bright?
Honestly major selling point for me there, the whites were basically like, gray!