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Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet

posted by janrinok on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the wild-dreams? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @05:26PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @05:26PM (#678010)

    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

    As best I'm aware, nobody has yet come out with LEDs that produce enough light to overwhelm the sun's light. If OP wants something that can be read in daylight, s/he has eliminated all of today's tablets from consideration.

    What we really need is progress on the e-ink front. (I use the term generically, not as a brand name.) We need colour and we need faster refreshing. Colour has been "right around the corner" every year since at least 2012, based on some recent Googling, so I'm not holding my breath there.

    Personally, I would love to see a large display (12"-13") flexible (fold-in-half-able) lightweight (non-glass) full-colour e-ink reader with adjustable front-light. The common 9.7" tablets are a little too small and 7"/8" tablets much too small for comfortable full-page document reading (*cough* comics *cough*) and the tablets are too big and heavy to comfortably slip in a pocket or purse to carry around. The current e-reader 6" standard display, slightly smaller than a paperback page, is too small. The weight is nice and the size for transportability is nice. The e-ink is much more comfortable on the eyes than LED screens, but it's only greyscale.

    If someone comes out with a full-colour, fast-refreshing e-ink-like reader that's offers a display comparable in size to A4/letter size paper that can be folded (rolled?) down to the size of a Kindle or oversized pen, they'd have a license to print money.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @06:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @06:28PM (#678039)

    I have a device that is supposedly ~220 nits and is barely visible in the sun. This should be 6x brighter so perhaps that is good enough:
    https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/08/28/displaymate-analyzes-note8s-display-1200-nits-brightness-great-color/ [androidpolice.com]

    However for some reason they went for the glossy display...