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Originally Posted by WillAdams
There are daylight viewable LCD options --- Fujitsu has offered them on their Stylistic line and a lot of GPS units use such as well --- Apple using such a display would be an interesting value-add.
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I know there are existing daylight viewable LCDs... they fall into two major categories: Reflective and Transflective. Reflective LCDs have the best contrast outdoors (which still isn't
as good as eInk), though since they rely on side/frontlighting in low light there is the issue of illuminating them evenly (particularly as the screen size increases) and they don't produce the level of color depth as a backlit display in my experience. Transflective LCDs, which have a special layer that allows light from behind to pass through but reflects light coming from in the front of the display, are usually more expensive and not nearly as good outdoors as purely reflective displays.