My Kindle Colorsoft arrived final week, and the very first thing I observed through the setup course of was a bizarre yellow strip of sunshine alongside the underside of the display.
I normally don’t take note of opinions or different individuals’s feedback when a brand new machine will get launched as a result of I don’t need to be influenced by outdoors opinions, however I made a decision to have a look at the opinions on Amazon for the Colorsoft to see if it was a typical drawback, and it turns on the market are a bunch of unfavourable opinions, with numerous complaints about the identical yellow bar of sunshine that I’m seeing.
Apparently it’s a fairly large deal on reddit too, with every kind of rumors floating round, lots of that are seemingly the foundation of customer support reps not understanding what they’re speaking about, however I didn’t need to enterprise down that rabbit gap.
The underside line is there seems to be a broadly unfold concern with uneven frontlighting on the Kindle Colorsoft. It’s bizarre as a result of the Kindle Paperwhite has the very same design, with the identical entrance layer and presumably the identical frontlight setup, and my Paperwhite doesn’t have the yellow bar in any respect (it’s extra like the complete display is like that, however at the very least it’s uniform).
I uploaded a video on YouTube exhibiting the yellow band, nevertheless it’s the form of factor that doesn’t present up very properly in footage and movies, and the digital camera doesn’t focus properly in decrease lighting, nevertheless it’s nonetheless fairly apparent, particularly in panorama mode.
The yellow bar is most seen when utilizing the cool lighting at mid to excessive settings. When you begin including some heat lighting the yellow strip turns into extra refined, and with quite a lot of heat lighting it just about disappears.
It’s so apparent on my unit that it virtually appears intentional. I’ve seen quite a lot of frontlights with apparent gradients over time, however none with such an remoted, even strip of yellow. It’s bizarre.
After doing a little studying on the Colorsoft, I’m not as bothered by the yellow band as I assumed I might be initially as a result of I at all times choose to maintain the frontlight degree low, however as somebody who hates uneven frontlights, I can see why persons are irritated by it, particularly on a tool that prices $279.
Does your Kindle Colorsoft have this similar yellow band alongside the underside of the display?
Kindle Colorsoft Frontlight Challenge
