sunlight readable iphone

jfitch wrote on 9/18/2017 10:17 AM:

I'm looking forward to buying an iPhone X when they come out.

How about the iPhone 8? Is it any brighter than a 6 or 7?

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf

Has Samsung, Apple, Dell, Kobo or Vertica ever exhibited at Aero or the SSA convention? It seems a lot of effort goes into avoiding the support of manufacturers of glider instruments.
Jim

JS wrote on 9/18/2017 9:02 PM:
Has Samsung, Apple, Dell, Kobo or Vertica ever exhibited at Aero or the SSA convention? It seems a lot of effort goes into avoiding the support of manufacturers of glider instruments.

For many years, Cambridge, Winpilot, and others used consumer PDAs to run their
flight software. So, using consumer devices began with soaring instrument
companies. Note that The iPhone is the hardware used by Air Avionics - a major
soaring instrument provider - for their iGlide soaring flight software.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf

On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 9:02:58 PM UTC-7, JS wrote:
Has Samsung, Apple, Dell, Kobo or Vertica ever exhibited at Aero or the SSA convention? It seems a lot of effort goes into avoiding the support of manufacturers of glider instruments.
Jim

Good point Jim. Except if you happen not to care for the Oudie, ClearNav, LX or other pay for and in many cases very expensive devices...these are pretty much the other choice (and in some cases the better choice :-).

On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 8:32:19 PM UTC-7, Eric Greenwell wrote:
jfitch wrote on 9/18/2017 10:17 AM:

I'm looking forward to buying an iPhone X when they come out.

How about the iPhone 8? Is it any brighter than a 6 or 7?

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf

The iPhone 8 has the same LCD display of the 7, so it will be the same brightness. The hope for the iPhone X is that it uses a Samsung OLED display, capable of much higher brightness. It remains to be seen what Apple will do, but it is a competitive market and Samsung phones with the OLED display are brighter in sunlight.

On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 9:31:43 PM UTC-7, jfitch wrote:
The specs for the iPhone X have been publicly available for a while now. Yes it will have an OLED screen, so it does not "remain to be seen what apple will do", they have already done it and publicly announced it.

The iPhone 8 has the same LCD display of the 7, so it will be the same brightness. The hope for the iPhone X is that it uses a Samsung OLED display, capable of much higher brightness. It remains to be seen what Apple will do, but it is a competitive market and Samsung phones with the OLED display are brighter in sunlight.

On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 6:54:47 AM UTC-7, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 9:31:43 PM UTC-7, jfitch wrote:
The specs for the iPhone X have been publicly available for a while now. Yes it will have an OLED screen, so it does not "remain to be seen what apple will do", they have already done it and publicly announced it.

The iPhone 8 has the same LCD display of the 7, so it will be the same brightness. The hope for the iPhone X is that it uses a Samsung OLED display, capable of much higher brightness. It remains to be seen what Apple will do, but it is a competitive market and Samsung phones with the OLED display are brighter in sunlight.

As I explained before, the OLED screens are capable of that brightness, and Samsung drives them to that brightness when left in Auto mode and in bright ambient light. Will Apple do the same? that is what remains to be seen. Neither Samsung or Apple give you much information in the specs as to how they handle this. The best information is on the Display Mate website, as these are actual tests of of the shelf phones.