I currently own a Mate 10 Pro with an OLED display, which has negatively affected my eyes. I experience consistent eye strain and headaches whenever I use it. I've heard that the Poco X4 GT is currently considered the most eye-friendly smartphone. Is there a better option available?

Unfortunately, there is no single good device. Everyone's preferences and experiences are different. If you scroll through the big smartphone thread you'll see lots of people saying they've finally found a good smartphone, and later posts from people who've bought the same phone and found it doesn't work for them. Your best bet is to try out as many as you can.

@"Seagull"#p30082 I appreciate your thoughtful advice. It's true that people have different preferences, so I'll take your suggestion and try out various options to find the device that suits me best.

iphone 8P with Toshiba screen I heard.

Android Central has posted an article with positive results using the new Moto Edge Plus 2023/Edge 40 Pro: [Best phones for PWM](https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/best-phones-for-pwm-flicker-sensitive "Best phones for PWM/Flicker sensitive people 2023")*/**Flicker sensitive people 2023*** "*Motorola debuted a relatively new flicker-reduction option with the Edge Plus (2023) that ensures the phone's display is on 99.51% of the time during the duty cycle. In practice, this is identical to DC dimming, which means the phone is actually reducing the voltage to the OLED diodes instead of using PWM flickering to fake a dimmer display*. *Above 35%, the Motorola Edge Plus (2023) uses DC dimming to achieve a flicker-free display. As is telling from DC dimming measurements, the brightness dips a little bit each time the display refreshes. In this case, the display is refreshing at around 120Hz. This is normal for all DC-dimmed OLED displays.* *Below 35%, the phone switches to 720Hz PWM dimming to ensure the display still retains a high-quality image and correct color accuracy.* *This is my personal favorite premium phone and I have no comfort issues from using this phone all day long.*" I'm very tempted by this phone even if it means leaving Apple.

> Below 35%, the phone switches to 720Hz PWM dimming to ensure the display still retains a high-quality image and correct color accuracy. And that is where sensitive people need more support from the manufacturer. They don't care about high-quality image and color accuracy at all. What they need is an option to disable the PWM completely, no matter how much the image quality degrades. I don't get why the manufacturer goes kind of a long way to implement his "flicker-reduction" just to stop at the most important part: low brightness conditions.

@"KM"#p30139 Its a technical problem. The light output of LEDs at low voltages is much more varied than at higher voltages. A bunch of identical LEDs at a high voltage may have a similar brightness, but the lower the voltage goes the more different they will be, till you get the point where some be brighter, others will be dimmer, and some may not light up at all. I believe this applies to OLEDs as well, and most likely MicroLEDs if they become commercialized. Accommodating this without PWM will lead to higher costs / low production yields. Presumably it is possible though.

They hard-coded the value to whatever 35% translates to. A few years ago, a developer has proven with a Samsung Galaxy smartphone that this is not a technical limitation and he managed to set it to 0%, effectively enabling pure DC dimming for the full brightness range. Sadly, I don't find the link anymore. But I think many of us remember it. Those arbitrary limits are done to hide panel imperfections, but those with eye strain don't care about that and should have an option to enable the full range down to 0%.

What is the best eye-friendly smartphone

JOSEUISLEY

KM All these implementations have the objective of saving battery, only. We with sensitive eyes are f*ck*

ensete

If it's and Android phone try turning on developer options and disabling HW video rendering That helped a lot for me

pavvell

Xiaomi low budget series work best for me. Right now I have Xiaomi 13, not as good as previous generation, but completely usable device, no eye strain at all.

aphobic

Mahdi Hey, I had the same problem, and found out that a Smart phone with LED or OLED display with an added privacy-screen protector removes all head-pain inducing radiation. Try that out!

Donux

Mahdi I would say blackberry or Nokia 3110. Not kidding, you can still use those. And cell phone operators will not shut down old bands because many of the security and other sensor networks communicate via those old technologies.

JTL

Donux And cell phone operators will not shut down old bands because many of the security and other sensor networks communicate via those old technologies.

That's not the case with all networks in all countries.

carguy0625

I'm moving the majority of my phone usage to a boox palma, yes this requires me to carry an additional device, but it seems to be worth it.

Zen242

I have tried so many phones after the first device to ever cause me eye strain, blurred vision, headaches and nausea was a Samsung Galaxy S21 5G. The best smart phones by far with no Dithering, PWM and no weird contrast or depth issues are the Redmi Note 8 and Note 10s - perfect screen I could look at for 10 hours with no problems.

jordan

Zen242 The redmi note 10 was safe to look at? what about the pro model as well? they appear to both be "Super amoled"?

d_balon

Zen242 do you believe the Redmi Note 15 will not cause any issues as well? The Redmi Note 15 is the newest version of that phone series it seems.

ensete

This is no one smartphone

Try disabling HW Rendering in Developer options, tht has helped me a lot with some phones

christianmom

ensete Thank you so much, you've made my phone useable again after its Android 15 update!

Reinhard62

ensete With "disable HW rendering" you mean "Disable HW Overlays"?

Clokwork

I'm keeping my eye on E-Paper/E-Ink phones. They seem like a step back in terms of image quality, but on paper, it seems like a good choice in general for those suffering from modern displays.

d_balon

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d_balon

Good morning everyone. I saw this on reddit. Look at PhoenyxuzPrimax's comment for phone recommendations.

I also have a quick alternative solution that may help someone: USB-C (or whatever port your phone uses) to HDMI hub. Find any one you like on Amazon. Monitors, TVs, movie screens, etc doesn't hurt me but for some reason, tablets and smart phones causes pain on my head. I just don't understand. Regardless and only if your phone supports it (google it first), just hook up your phone to a hub, connect a wireless mouse if possible, connect it to the television or monitor, and problem solved. Let me know if that works out for you guys.

Link to see if it's even possible for your phone to do this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/g63rci/list_of_android_phones_that_support_hdmi_out_over/

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/PWM_Sensitive/comments/1fjl5kr/ideas_on_a_new_android_phone_that_may_be_better/

Clokwork

d_balon Hey, A lot of us already knew about this one . It's a promising option! I just hope that a well known brand makes one as I am wary of data security issues.

RecentlyDeceased666

Mahdi everyone is different. I've seen some people report sucess with the Xiaomi. Allegedly it's not oled and has dc dimming option in the menu.

I on the other hand cannot find a tv that works for me even if it's pwm flicker free at any brightness. But can look at my S22 ultra and S23 ultra all day long. I can turn down my led roof light down to 15% where it flickers like mad and be fine but if I do that and look at my phone then I get sick

d_balon

Reinhard62 if you get an answer, let us know. I did not see "disable HW rendering" as an option on my phone.

Watermelon

New saviour?

https://m.gsmarena.com/acer_launches_super_zx_and_super_zx_pro-news-67407.php

Watermelon

By the way using moto G35 as second phone in pair with pixel 8. It's torturously slow. But screen seems to be real 8 bit. Bought it because it's unisoc. Hence no miravision or anything like that. Technically. But I saw some half Chinese article that unisoc also uses some kind of dithering. I disabled animations and did that overlay thing. I can see why disabling animations can help. Basically significantly less shades of gray. With overlay literally no idea. Night light doesn't work for me. And never worked. Biggest problem is that it isn't an amoled and hence irritates my eyes with reading. For movies it's totally fine. I guess that for reading it shall be rooted amoled like pixel 8 pro or pixel 3 xl with 4000 pwm. Or e ink. Or reflective LCD perhaps. But I have no idea where I can test those(reflective LCD) in Germany. And I don't feel safe paying a lot of money to some Chinese guys for something I night not like and that isn't easy to return.