Display brightness has become one of the biggest battlegrounds in the modern Android smartphone space, and it’s only ramped up in the last few months.
Companies are talking up ever higher peak brightness numbers to wow us, but there’s just one problem though. This figure is effectively meaningless, and here’s why.
A tit-for-tat battle
Peak brightness refers to brightness in a very small area of the screen, primarily when playing content such as HDR videos. It does not apply to everyday usage otherwise. There aren’t even any Android games that take advantage of HDR (and therefore peak brightness), either. This hasn’t stopped smartphone makers from bragging about this figure.
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