Peter R said:
Just because the OLED is emissive it is not transmissive. It may perfectly well reflect light far better than the GP2x LCD.
I don't think you understand.
For a LCD display to be visible, light has to pass through the liquid crystal layer and hit your eye. There are three methods for doing this, and they are generally called reflective, transmissive, and transflective (or transflexive).
In a reflective display, ambient light (or light from a frontlight) passes through the liquid crystal layer from the front, bounces off a reflective layer and back through the liquid crystal layer, and travels out to your eye.
In a transmissive panel, light travels from the backlight through the LC layer, and on to you.
A transflective panel adds a semi-reflective layer between the backlight and the LC layer. Under low ambient light conditions, the display works like a normal transmissive panel. Under high ambient light conditions (daylight), the ambient light reflects off of the semi-reflective layer and bounces back through to your eye.
An OLED display is entirely different. Each subpixel is emitting its own light, hence the term
emissive. There is nothing to reflect ambient light. The reason that OLED displays often work better than transmissive LCD panels in daylight conditions is because they are bright enough that the ambient light is not able to wash them out. Direct sunlight is usually enough to wash out even the best of them, though. Reflective LCD panels look even better in direct sunlight, and transflective panels don't look great, but they are always readable, no matter how bright the ambient light.
Try and talk down to me again and the elitist Sam Fisher shall have to return to force you to know just how much I know against your will
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However, I choose not to argue as being correct got me banned once more (Though a very noisy certain french member did help aggrivate my situation that time).
