3,000! 4,000! 4,500! All those nits of peak brightness aren’t really impressive

3,000! 4,000! 4,500! All those nits of peak brightness aren’t really impressive

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority
Opinion post by
Hadlee Simons

Display brightness has become one of the biggest battlegrounds in the modern Android smartphone space, and it’s only ramped up in the last few months.

Companies are talking up ever higher peak brightness numbers to wow us, but there’s just one problem though. This figure is effectively meaningless, and here’s why.