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what brightness setting do you use?
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Auto-Brightness is a patented technology in which a light sensor is used to determine how much light is around you.
This sensor then tells the screen what to adjust it's brightness to, according to the lighting conditions.
Correction: For example, in a dark room, auto-brightness would set the back-light lower, to compensate the dark conditions.
(Thanks Phil)
Hope this explains it a bit better for you.
R-Fly
no, it sets it lower so as it not blind/hurt your eyes
in bright conditions it brightens the screen, making it easier to read
from apple website:
If the auto brightness works than you shouldn't see a change in brightness. If it didn't work, the display would seen very dim out in bright sunlight, and seem to glare at you way too brightly inside a dark room at night. At least that's how it seemed to be with previous palmtops I've used without this feature.
I leave auto-bright on with the slider set at about 30%... enough to make the display readable without wasting a lot of battery life. I paid for an information appliance, not a fashionable flashlight.
I leave auto-bright on with the slider set at about 30%... enough to make the display readable without wasting a lot of battery life. I paid for an information appliance, not a fashionable flashlight.
The times I've put the brightness all the way up, it nearly blinded me. You can light up an entire dark room with the brightness fully up. I don't even want to think what your battery life is like if you are playing a game or browsing the internet (ie screen is continually lit up for 30 or so minutes).
I have my brightness on about 10%. I can read it fine and I don't have to worry about using the display too much kiling the batter.
For all the talk about how Push or location services or 3G kills battery, having your brightness above 50% dwarfs all those in the battery drain department if you use your phone at all.
Mine is around that too: sometimes I have my iPhone on auto-brightness, but it ends up being the same thing: 30-40%
i don't think anyone answered this, but the way to tell if auto-brightness works is by go into your brightness settings and toggle it between off and on, you will see the screen brightness change.
try it in a dark room and if you turn it off it will get a little brighter.
try it in a dark room and if you turn it off it will get a little brighter.
I switch
When I am at work, I tend to raise it as high as possible
When I go out socially, I lower it so if I pull it out, it isn't the brightest thing in the entire bar
When I am at work, I tend to raise it as high as possible
When I go out socially, I lower it so if I pull it out, it isn't the brightest thing in the entire bar
I keep it at 40% with auto brightness on and haven't had to touch it since launch day. Its visible in full sunlight and not too bright in a dark room.