U1000 Screen Outdoor Horrible!

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Many Times I work outdoor taking surveys and I can tell you that U1000's screen in outdoor condition especially with a lot of sun(Like in tropical countries), is very very bad! I hardly can see anything on the screen. U1000 screen is not like the normal Transflective PDA screen that other PDAs use.
It's just a warning for those who do a lot of their work in the outdoor condition. U1000 won't be the best companion.

Nothing can be as hot and sunny as in India,,mine is just fine..need to adjust the brightness when Out Doors

Originally Posted by hdubli

Nothing can be as hot and sunny as in India,,mine is just fine..need to adjust the brightness when Out Doors

well the problem is, if you work outdoor A LOT and you adjust the brightness quite high, you would drain a lot of battery and you hardly make it for 6 hours outdoor job. Where in Universal, I can turn off my backlight completely therefore, I can get plenty of juice out of Universal.

This morning I'm going to work in by car sunny day. It took 1 hour to get to my work place. I set the brightness to number 2. By the time I got to the work place the battery was already down to 90%. I have no idea whether it's 91-99% though.