Some years ago there was this „paperlike kindle“ that was advertised with: „you can read it in bright daylight!“ and then we never heard about this invention again.
Edit: thanks for your input. I think I understand now.
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Am I out of my mind? My phone is quite usable in sunlight, and new phones are like over 2x the nits.
I haven’t tried one of the new 2000+ nit phones in person, but I have no issues using my 2+ year old phone on the sunniest of days, even if the screen appears a bit dimmer then.
It isn’t 2010 with phones with 400nit screens.
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Edit: Since this is a top level comment and has also become popular, I will also address the E-Ink screen portion of the OP. E-Ink screens have not gone anywhere, new Kindles have been made, there’s even an E-Ink phone, and a couple E-Ink monitors now.
The weakness of E-Ink is it’s response time and fidelity, it works by using an electrical signal to change the crystal structure within the screen, and it doesn’t require power to continue displaying the same image, only to refresh the image to something else this makes them very power efficient. This process is also slow and not well suited to moving images, so it does not work very well for anything that requires motion like scrolling phone screens, video media, or games.
Classically they are also only able to do Black and White and possibly shades of Grey, recently some new E-Ink displays have been able to do colors, as well as faster refresh rates, but the colors are still a very far cry from what LCD or LED panels can produce, while the refresh rates are still to low to be realistically usable quality for everything you would do on a phone or computer.
Which is why they have largely stayed relegated to “reading only” devices like Ebooks.
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