HTC Desire HD screen brightness

[RichardH]

I'm an HTC Hero (T-mobile G2 Touch UK) user, and my wife has just upgraded from the old T-Mobile G1 to an HTC Desire HD. With the backlight turned off on both phones, the Desire's screen is much darker compared to my phone's display. Is this normal? I thought the screens on the more modern phones were supposed to be brighter/better or is this the penance you pay for a bigger and higher res screen? (I assume the Desire HD is still an LCD display rather than AMOLED?)

 

[Mitchturbo]

Yup got it in one, LCD display.
The screen does the job though.

 

[RichardH]

Yup got it in one, LCD display.
The screen does the job though.

I'm assuming that my old, smaller and lower spec Hero/G2 Touch running 2.1 also uses an LCD screen. It just surprised me that with the backlight off, the Desire HD screen was so much darker than my handset.

 

[HTCWozz]

You can turn the backlight off?, fill me in!

And yeah im pretty certain the Hero was a LCD too.

 

[RichardH]

You can turn the backlight off?, fill me in!

And yeah im pretty certain the Hero was a LCD too.

Using the Android 'Power Control' widget on the desktop. The backlight is the fifth and final button on the right - unless you want to call it 'brightness' instead!