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Re:Dark vs. Light Theme Battery Stats on SAMOLED by artmageddon on Friday January 11, 2013 @08:48AM (#5042612)
I remember these findings being refuted, and I thought it was because it took the same amount of power for an LCD screen to show a black pixel instead of a white pixel.

I will say, given these findings from OP, I hope these types of displays become more common.

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Re:Dark vs. Light Theme Battery Stats on SAMOLED by keenerd on Friday January 11, 2013 @09:23AM (#5042756)
It takes more energy for an LCD to show a black pixel. It is not much compared to the backlight, though. On one of my laptops solid black uses 0.5 watts more than solid white.
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