Color Platforms for Top Hat/XCSoar

On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 12:44:45 PM UTC-4, Richard Pfiffner wrote:
On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 9:26:55 AM UTC-7, Ben Hirashima wrote:
On Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 6:52:40 PM UTC-7, Mike C wrote:
I have a Galaxy 5S with an AMOLED screen which is supposed to be great in direct sunlight, but it is not nearly as visible in direct sunlight as my sold Streak was. Are the LCD screens any better? Are the newer AMOLD screens better than the earlier generation AMOLD screens?

Yes, newer AMOLED screens are definitely brighter. They get brighter and brighter every year, and they are certainly brighter than LCD screens.

Screen Brightness has little to do with sunlight readability. A very bright backlight will make a Poor screen sort of readable in the sun.

True Sunlight readable displays have a very high contrast ratio, and two specialized coatings anti-glare and anti-reflective. If a display has these features brightness is not a factor.

Richard
www.craggyaero.com

Uh? Suppose that the light coming from the screen is at level 1000 in the white areas and 1 in the black areas. Good contrast in a dark room. Now add 10,000 units of sunshine. If the screen reflects even only 10% of that, the "black" areas are now 1001 and the white areas 2000 - contrast gone to hell. Brightness matters.

That's why I'm using a device with an e-ink purely-reflective display: in that case, more incident light does not change the contrast at all.