Pixel Display Flickers Giving You Headaches? Google Hints At Key Change for Pixel 10

The upcoming Pixel 10 handset might arrive to user's eyes with an upgraded display with less flicker than the existing models in the lineup. The suggestion comes from Android Central's Nicholas Sutrich, who's been spearheading efforts to raise awareness of this issue for a while now.

Here's an oversimplified explanation: OLED displays don't really have a global brightness setting—they just turn off and on many times per second to give the illusion of lower brightness. The rate at which this happens is called the PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) rate.

Although it isn't immediately apparent when just glancing at an OLED display for a few seconds, a low flicker rate can interfere with vision after prolonged use, or just a few seconds if, like Sutrich, you're one of the unlucky people particularly sensitive to this, then even a short while looking at one ...