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Originally Posted by radleyp
Several people on this thread have spoken of LCD screens which are quite readable in daylight. Really? Which screens? I have never seen LCD screens which are not completely washed out in sunlight, whether on a phone or a computer. If I want to read my iphone (transflective) screen outdoors, I have to duck into a doorway or turn it to bizarre, even extreme, angles. Please identify this readable-in-sunlight LCD screen.
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In my case, it's a PDA, and it's quite readable outdoors: all I need to do is turn
off the backlight. (The older PDA it replaced wouldn't ley me turn the backlight off, and did have problems outdoors.)
My first PDA was green screen mono, and readable in either environment. It's the color screens that get problematic.
That said, when concerns about reading outdoors are expressed, the first question is "How much do you actually
read outdoors?". While I
can read outdoors, for example, I usually don't. If I'm outdoors I'm in transit, and reading while doing things like crossing busy streets is inadvisable. The vast majority of my reading is indoors in artificial light.
So while the ability to read outdoors is desirable, lack of it isn't a deal breaker, as I seldom actually do it.
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Dennis