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As fewer phones use LCD, companies have a responsibility to uphold

Xiaomi's Redmi is the latest company to drop LCD entirely on flagship phones.

The strong dip that occurs at the end of the frame appears to be the equivalent of a CRT “vertical retrace” period when the raster resets to the top of the display.” (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)Part of the problem is that AMOLED and OLED technology has been pushed as a superior tech without properly explaining the potential negative health effects associated with it. Companies like Google, Samsung, and Apple are the worst offenders of using harsh display tech among smartphone manufacturers and continue to use low PWM rates that do not abide by research showing how harmful they can be to humans.

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