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Originally Posted by ColdSun
Oh no, I won't be drawn back into this very opinionated and not proven argument about how eink is better than LCD. It isn't true and those of you wanting more information just browse around this forum and find the hundreds of threads beating this dead horse over and over.
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I hardly find this to be opinionated when, for example, during the summer I can walk outside with some of the best LCDs available, e.g. OLED & IPS screens, set them to max brightness and barely be able to make what is supposedly displayed on the screen. More often than not I wouldn't even know that the device display was active had I not set it BEFORE walking out into a non-shaded area. This is hardly "opinionated", and is frequently mentioned in LCD tablet/reader reviews. Walk out into the sunlight with a mono-LCD or eInk hmmm... I can still read it perfectly, maybe even better than in the shaded area...
Even in a shaded area during the summer I HAD to have the backlight on various devices set to 50% or more to even come close to comfortably being able to read the display. My preference is for conditions where 25% or less backlight is sufficient to maximize batt life, especially on these smaller devices that only have 3-6h runtime to begin with.
50% on something like the iPad isn't much of a problem, nor is it on the gTab whic has a roughly equivalent batt runtime of ~10h, but on something like the NC or worse the Augen GT or WPDN with lesser batt runtimes -> less than useful runtime before requiring a charge when having to use higher backlight settings. (Hope that charger is handy.)