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Android smartwatches have a flicker problem. The OnePlus Watch 3 fixed it
The Galaxy Watch Ultra and Pixel Watch 3 should emulate OnePlus by letting us choose between colorful PWM flickering or eye-saving DC dimming.
During my colleague Nick Sutrich's OnePlus Watch 3 hands-on, he appreciated how the 1.5-inch AMOLED leaped from 600 to 2,200 nits of brightness and hit a smoother 1–60Hz LTPO refresh rate. Nick told me that the Apple Watch Ultra 2 was the first well-known smartwatch that the PWM-sensitive community noticed had switched to DC Dimming, and you can see the evidence in the photo below. We can only speculate on why fitness watches use more eye-friendly dimming than the bigger smartwatch brands; companies typically stay radio silent when asked about this topic.
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