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MIP display visibility outdoors in different light conditions?

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over 3 years ago

I’ve never used a MIP display before I’m looking for experience when using the watch when hiking through  forests and when used indoors/gym. Did you find that you needed to constantly flip the backlight on and off when outdoors going between shade and open areas? This is one of my biggest reservations about the watch and whether the display is going to be readable or frustrating by constantly having to switch on and off the back light. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Backlight is turning on on every touch or key pressed. Which is not good f9r battery. Would be better to turn backlight only when there is no (sun)light.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    The mip display is very well readable outdoors. Sometimes when you ride from bright sunlight into shade your eyes need time to adjust. Those few seconds make the display hard to read, especially combined with dark sunglasses.

    During summer I set the backlight to 80% to compensate for that issue. Theoretically it reduces battery run time, practically hard to notice.

    Conclusion: mip display has good readability outdoors

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I never use backlight in bright conditions, even inside I turn the watch towards the room illumination like I would have done with a normal watch  30 years ago. My backlight setting is 5% wich I find is enough to read everything if no external light source is available. I switch it on manually if needed. Also never noticed any trouble with sunglasses, if I wear sunglasses its usually bright enough to read the display just fine.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I use the backlight wrist gesture on feature, as it works very well.

    Outdoors with sunglasses on and the sun in front of you can make it hard to see the screen without the backlight, but with the backlight at about 50% is enough, depending on the darkness of your sunglasses.

    Indoors, the backlight even at the lowest 10% is enough.

    I had the Epix2 for a few weeks as well, its AMOLED screen is self bright so could be read in any conditions, but it consumed the battery too much when the screen was on during an activity. Swapped it for the 7X which I found to be at least twice as long with the battery even with the backlight set to 50%, the default is normally 20%.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    The problem is not MIP display but the glass. You have the sapphire version? I switched from 6X Pro Solar Titanium Power Glass (Gorilla Glass) to Fenix 7 Solar Sapphire.The visibility of Power Glass is fantastic under every lights. The sapphire creates reflections. It is very frustrating. The Fenix 7 does not exists in a top versione with Gorilla Glass.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I almost never use backlight with MIP displays. During daytime, they're already visible. In the evening they're still visible with room lights. At night I manually press light when I need.

    However, Fenix 7X lights up the backlight with touches. So I keep the backlight setting in %5 so that it won't consume a lot of power.