On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:22:54 AM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
On 06/09/2014 03:02 PM, wrote:



I like XCSOAR and I like a 7 inch screen - I like color - any

suggestions?



I fly with a Dell Streak 5. My colleague at work has a Google Nexus 7

tablet. I have taken both out into the sun and done a comparison of the

displays, with and without my sunglasses on. The sunlight visibility of

the Nexus 7 is as least as good, if not better than the Streak 5.



I checked this both with the sun directly behind the PDA's (shadow of

the PDA on my face), and with the sun over my shoulder onto the screens

(shadow of my head just next to the PDA's, and a range of positions in

between. I put google maps on the screen during the test as I did not

want to install XCsoar on my colleague's new toy. I do this whenever I

get a chance to test a new device in the sun.



The 7" device is a bit big for my cockpit and I am on the lookout for a

4" to 5" equivalent. I know black and white e-readers will win this test

any day, but they don't have 3G to support Skylines live tracking.



Have fun



Ian

A Galaxy Note 3 is fairly readable in daylight. at full brightness it is about 600 nits. Plus it has a barometric sensor for the software vario. and the speaker does not face away from you like many devices.