Re: [apple-iphone] Portrait vs Landscape brightness
Forgot to mention, Auto Brightness is turned off through this exercise.
On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Jim Showalter wrote:
> Ken and Bill,
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> Today there was enough daylight outside to try the rotation without sunglasses on. The screen does not dim when I rotate from portrait to landscape ( well, it does get just SLIGHTLY darker, but it doesn't totally go dark). With the sunglasses on, rotating to portrait goes to unviewable, just like it did last night indoors with sunglasses.
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> Sunglasses must be polarized. So, too, must be the iPhone screen.
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> Thanks to both for your information! From now on I'll just take off my sunglasses when I need the iPhone in landscape. Wonder how it works with rose colored glasses :-)
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> On Jan 28, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Jim Showalter wrote:
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>> On Jan 28, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Ken Bandy wrote:
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>>> Jim, you're not wearing polarized sunglasses outside, are you? If so, try
>>> taking them off for a bit and see if that makes any difference.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
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>> That's an interesting thought, Ken. I usually wear sunglasses outdoors, but not sure if they are polarized. I had at first thought that maybe the iPhone screen might be such that the viewing angle might be affected.
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>> I just put on my sunglasses (clip ons over my regular eyeglasses) here indoors in the evening, and I do see the same effect: dimming when rotating to landscape.
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>> Thanks for that clue. I'll have to followup outdoors tomorrow when it is lighter again.
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: apple-iphone@
>>>> [mailto:apple-iphone@
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:44 PM
>>>> To: apple-iphone@
>>>> Subject: [apple-iphone] Portrait vs Landscape brightness
>>>>
>>>> I have noticed that when I rotate my 3GS (happened on my
>>>> original as well) from portrait to landscape outdoors the
>>>> screen gets too dim to be viewable. This does not happen
>>>> indoors. I have tried holding the iPhone in the landscape
>>>> mode while waking it outdoors, but that doesn't help. Still
>>>> too dark to see, but rotating to portrait makes it bright
>>>> enough. Any clues are greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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