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flybor · 12-11-2015, 04:05 PM

I am in California and was also unpleasantly surprised when I saw the dark shadows at the bottom of PPW3, just bought from Amazon. I am in a poorly lit environment most of the time and need some light and the shadows are visible and start bothering me from level 8 and above. They are very distracting for me for the last few lines of text.

I got another unit from Amazon. This one has a much yellower background, so the shadows are slightly less visible because there is less contrast between darker and lighter areas, but otherwise they are the same. Another problem is that the leftmost shadow is not a diffuse blob but has a distinct cone shape on the left side, a line at 45 degrees. Quite distracting.

Then I tried Voyage from Best Buy. It seems to have 6 or so LEDs at the bottom and the shadows from them are much smaller and very, very faint. I don't notice them, even at max light. Beautiful bottom of the screen. However, the top coloring is very uneven, with a pink area over the home button, followed by a big diagonal greenish blob… None of the two PPW3's have this unevenness...

12-11-2015, 04:05 PM	#15
flybor Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2015 Device: None	I am in California and was also unpleasantly surprised when I saw the dark shadows at the bottom of PPW3, just bought from Amazon. I am in a poorly lit environment most of the time and need some light and the shadows are visible and start bothering me from level 8 and above. They are very distracting for me for the last few lines of text. I got another unit from Amazon. This one has a much yellower background, so the shadows are slightly less visible because there is less contrast between darker and lighter areas, but otherwise they are the same. Another problem is that the leftmost shadow is not a diffuse blob but has a distinct cone shape on the left side, a line at 45 degrees. Quite distracting. Then I tried Voyage from Best Buy. It seems to have 6 or so LEDs at the bottom and the shadows from them are much smaller and very, very faint. I don't notice them, even at max light. Beautiful bottom of the screen. However, the top coloring is very uneven, with a pink area over the home button, followed by a big diagonal greenish blob… None of the two PPW3's have this unevenness...