On Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 9:31:35 PM UTC-6, wrote:
Hello, Does anyone have experience running XC Soar or Tophat Soaring on the newer Samsung Devices?
The note 10 and S10 are reported to have brightness levels over 1000 nits.. I’m guessing the previous 8 and 9 generations may also be pretty close for a lot less$
Cannot find much information out there on running tophat and XCSoar on newer hardware, which appears to have progressed quite a bit recently in display technology.
Also wondering if there are any issues running Tophat or XC on the newer android platforms? Since these open source programs are updated at a slow pace.
Thanks! Jason

I've been running XCSoar with TopHat on a Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2016 vintage) Model # SM-T280, and the brightness level with this older unit has been fine. Even in full daylight, I have not had an issue, although I put it under a home-made shade device to keep it cool. I can only imagine the performance on the newer units would be better, but you don't need to spend the $ to get very acceptable performance. I bought my unit for $100, when it was on sale as last year's model.