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I tried searching and came to the conclusion this does not exist. I would like a tablet with the following features:
- Easy to install (or pre-installed) LineageOS, or some other open source OS that doesnt require any fighting with bloatware or control over updates (please give your opinion on what is best)
- Easy to open up and repair (and mod) the device hardware myself without any special tools (ie, standard electronics screwdrivers, etc)
- Matte screen with dynamic range that allows the screen to be bright enough to use in the sun but dark enough to use while falling asleep.
I don't plan on using it for anything besides basic web browsing and pdf reading, so it should be cheap. However, price is no object if it has those features. There was one other soft criteria but it sounded like an ad so I removed it... See if you can guess.
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An unfortunate state that persists as long
as anyone lacks anything he would like to have.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday May 10 2018, @05:16PM
Oh, forgot to add...as I said in my post, I quite enjoy the S5 (the default software is atrocious, but if you wipe it the hardware is pretty nice). But the brightness isn't going to quite meet your needs I'd expect. You can usually work around a screen that won't dim enough -- there's third-party apps that can dim it further although I don't think those give any power saving as I believe they just dim the image on screen rather than the backlight itself...but it's usable for night reading. The bigger issue is daylight...the S5 is usually readable, but it's a struggle, and if you've got sunglasses on it's pretty unreadable unless you find some shade. Last time I saw a device that actually performed well in daylight, it was a monochrome display where you could see each individual pixel...so if you want a big bright color display you might have issues there, although I'd expect tablets and laptops to do a bit better than phones if only because they have room for bigger lights and bigger batteries...