Is it temporal dithering? FRC? Or something else entirely.

Recently, I’ve been trying to buy a new budget friendly phone. I’m a housebound person, so unfortunately I can’t go to a store/shop to try out a phone. So far, I’ve purchased some budget friendly Motorola phones, both which came with android 15, and IPS display. I always go for LCD since my pulse width modulation tolerance is extremely low, and any AMOLED phone that uses PWM makes me feel like I’m going to throw up.

My point and my question is: could this be due to simply a software issue? It seems that my old android budget phones (before android 15) were absolutely fine on my eyes, however anything after android 15 seems to give me severe eye pain (ocular headaches). I also tried a few rugged phones from Amazon. Again both using android 15. Same problem.

I borrowed a rugged phone that my sister owns, which has android 13 installed and I have absolutely zero problems. I’m just wondering, could it really be just the software? I have tried to enable RGB mode in the developer settings, but on these budget smartphones it seems that this option is hidden or nonexistent.

Any thoughts? It seems to be getting increasingly harder to find a screen that doesn’t cause me physical harm.