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Originally Posted by rcentros
I see a lot of people shading their phones with one hand, turning in place and squinting at their screens in bright sunlight. I know my phone is nearly unreadable in bright sunlight. So, yeah, glare is an issue with standard LCD screens. I don't know about expensive, modern ones.
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Ok, I just rounded up 2 mid-priced devices, a Samsung Tab A tablet and a mid priced Sony Xperia phone, both several years old and took them out into the early afternoon sun. Both have LCD displays.
On the tablet was loaded Android PocketBook and for a web page test I used BBC News.
Samsung: With PocketBook set to a slightly off-white background, black text and brightness increased (using PocketBook's control of self only which is not automatic) I had no problem whatsoever reading at the normal font size that I use. With the web page check I had no problem reading that either after increasing the brightness (auto brightness was not on).
Sony: I did not put PocketBook on it as didn't bother checking after seeing the result of the web page test. I had no problem comfortably reading the web page and the Sony's automatic brightness control turned up the brightness correctly for the sunlit condition.
In both cases if the sun was to my side or to my front I had to take no care at all, was easily readable and no glare. With the sun behind me I just had to adjust so that the plane of the screen was not at a low incidence to the sun (which is nothing to do with LCD but applies to any reflective surface), such low incidence angles presented a very unnatural reading position so were irrelevant.
Regarding the brightness of the sun, just in case you imagine that I performed this in winter at 60 degrees latitude and am not declaring that; it is late summer here and we share with Australia sunlight strong enough to make us the skin cancer capitals of the world.
You might like to advise what tablets and phones you are experiencing trouble with.