just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Anti-glare is kind of a scam, especially when you’re talking about sunlight. You can either have material that diffuses the light to kit reflect as much, or shift it on a bounce so your eyes don’t notice it as much.
I think most people don’t realize this and will probably give most things a bad rating based on their unrealistic expectations. Depending on your scenario, you may have to just try a bunch of different things.
yeh i’ll guess i’ll try some of them out. Anything above $50 is too much for me though. Also i am aware of the privacy stuff on the new S25.
It is not what i meant in the OP, the S24 Ultra was the 1st one to have that anti reflective coating on. It was difficult to get a screen for that one because Samsung did such a great job, i.e. any screen protectors will just reduce the factory coating.
I wish I knew that before putting a screen protector on mine.
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Samsung S24 Ultra onwards have the anti-reflective “matte” coating (diffused vs shiny) while the S26 Ultra is the first with the dumb “privacy display” feature.
It’s neat tech, but it significantly reduces the resolution when enabled, it has worse viewing angles when disabled (since half the pixels are less visible when viewing side on) and the feature is done better with a cheap screen protector. Pretty cool that you can use it for notifications, but I think that’s the only part-of-screen tinkering you can do with it, it’s that or the whole screen, so you could just set the notifications to hide message contents?