Today I went to the shops and measured the flicker ratio of a few Android phones with the Radex Lupin.
That was an interesting experience (in the true, non-overused sense of that word): I found two OLED phones that had surprisingly positive results.
Nokia X30: It had a flicker ratio of about 3% at highest brightness, and maintained that for a good amount of the display brightness range; even at 25%, it was still hovering under 5% (I don't remember the exact numbers anymore) ... it did go towards 10% or so as the brightness was really low, however, at that brightness, the screen wasn't legible anymore.
Moto Edge 30 Neo (and most of the others in that range), Moto G82: Similar to the Nokia, just slightly higher overall, across the brightness range.
But both of these had a better ratio to the iPhones across the brightness range.
The Moto phones even have a "prevent flickering" setting in the Display settings; that didn't change the flicker ratio according to my measurements, but it did change the black bars going across the screen (visible via slow mo camera) from very fast to very slow.
The other thing about the above phones that I noticed, is that they have moderate max brightness; the Nokia X30 goes to about 700 nits; I think this may be important, as I noticed with all of the above phones, that going below ~30% display brightness would make the screen too dark; so I'm thinking that these phones' max brightness setting isn't as intense and bright as the Samsungs and iPhones, and as a consequence, their auto brightness adjuster may not go much below 50%, even in darker environments (excluding a pitch black room).
They also had the new S23 range on display in store, so I gave those a measure, of course. These all started at ~50% flicker ratio at full brightness, and went up towards ~100%.
I'm having a look at Android phones, as I'm tempted to move across, as they have and likely will have good mid range LED options, as well as potentially viable OLED options. The reason I'm tempted to moving across is simply that there is uncertainty as to if/when Apple will continue LED phones, or improve their OLED screens, or move to a different screen technology that may be better for PWM sensitive people.
Essentially, I'm wondering why I should invest in their ecosystem, when there is a likely risk that I may be left without an iPhone option.
It probably doesn't help that I've seen a nice amount of really stupid bugs popping up on my 11 with iOS 16, and it makes reconsider spending a premium for that (i.e. I expect more bugs and issues with Android mid rangers, given they're cheaper).
