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Old July 25th 12, 09:24 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default New Nexus 7 with xc soar.

On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:59:23 AM UTC-7, Vaughn wrote:
On 7/25/2012 12:34 PM, glider12321 wrote:
>Will the screen hold up in sunlight?
In sunlight, mine has about the same visibility as my Ipad. (faint
praise indeed) I haven't explored changing screen settings. In
general, I'm delighted with my Nexus7, but something with a
sunlight-readable screen might do better as a glider computer.

Vaughn


Vaughn, you already have one? Wow. That answers my question whether Asus would deliver as they had troubles with the Transmformer Prime. The display brightness is ~400nits which is supposed to be decent for sunlight(same as my phone). Its not quite as bright as other more expensive Asus tablets which have a special mode that kicks it up to 600 or so, but should be a bit better than the iPAD. Perhaps a matte screen cover will help with reflections?

The following website does a display comparison between different tablets vs iPAD.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6036/a...f700t-review/2