What theme do you use, light or dark?

[colinkiama]

Side question: When using the white theme, does the phone remind you of ios 7?

 

[Alin Iulian]

yes

 

[wpgeek820]

Used dark for 7-8 months. Got bored. Went to light theme. Used it for a week. Switched back to dark. Two reasons.

1. Too much strain on the eyes especially during night time.
2. Battery. I found that the battery life decreased by around 8-10% for me by using the light theme.

 

[jlzimmerman]

I do both, and high contrast for both light and dark.

 

[TechFreak1]

always dark, easier on the battery and eyes (especially when reading articles with the light off)

 

[dusann]

Dark theme!

 

[moledj]

Light theme here. For me dark feels... Old????? Maybe light remember me more to pc???? Dont know ;-)

 

[MDak280]

I use the light theme even though I have a Lumia 925 with an AMOLED screen. It looks so much better to me!

 

[AngrySprintUser]

I prefer dark, but light for my emails. I didn't think about the battery being saved so that's an added plus.

 

[maclancer]

I prefer dark as well, easy for the eyes and does not bother you at night.

 

[PxuLL]

Dark, saves battery.

 

[MrA2Z]

Light + steel on black 920. Now after bg options in 8.1, it looks great.

 

[undulose]

Before, I'm using dark+red for my glossy 1520. I became curious if light background really drains a considerable amount of juice but I observed that it doesn't. I also turned my other apps into light theme as well.

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[xandros9]

Before, I'm using dark+red for my glossy 1520. I became curious if light background really drains a considerable amount of juice but I observed that it doesn't. I also turned my other apps into light theme as well.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

on phones with LCD displays (lower end Lumias, the 920, 1520), white or black doesn't affect power usage.
It does on phones with the AMOLED screen tech onboard like the 930, 820, 925...

 

[undulose]

on phones with LCD displays (lower end Lumias, the 920, 1520), white or black doesn't affect power usage.
It does on phones with the AMOLED screen tech onboard like the 930, 820, 925...

But if that's the case, why does Nokia still include that notice on their LCD phones? I understand its disadvantage on AMOLED phones.

 

[xandros9]

But if that's the case, why does Nokia still include that notice on their LCD phones? I understand its disadvantage on AMOLED phones.

they do?I wasn't aware of that. my 920 never gave me an alert like that

 

[multo]

Perhaps just a generic heads up for users. Instead of having specific ones for those that use LCD and amoled, just one was used by them

 

[trev81uk]

I use Light with Green, reminds me of Xbox 360 colours!
When I first got my WP I had Dark with Cyan, but I couldn't go back now it makes it look smaller!

 

[Muessig]

Personally I use the dark theme. Always have. Really like it

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Dark. With dark you have the appearance of screen from edge to edge and top to bottom on my 925 or any (I suspect) AMOLED.