Outdoor under direct sun light?

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Does anyone have a clue how the new screen behaves outdoor, especially under direct sun light. My current HD "sucks" on that matter, espaecially when using GPS navigation during day time .

Thanks

yeah, HD sucks under the sun lol.

indoor comparision..

The HD 2 has a light sensor which will control the backlight based on the light in the environment you in. I have seen it on a Rodium and i must say it works very nice!

Originally Posted by SNL

The HD 2 has a light sensor which will control the backlight based on the light in the environment you in. I have seen it on a Rodium and i must say it works very nice!

If I'm not misstaken, even the Touch Diamond had that...
still doesn't answer the "question"

The Touch HD had this too but still sucks under sunlight. Even if you manually set to maximum brightness it was pretty bad under sunlight.

I thinks this is a hard question to answer till the device is in the market

Normally, it is the glass protection of a capacitive screen which gives good readability under the direct sun, while the resistive needs a plastic cover able to catch up the points of pressure filtering a lot of brightness.

In my experience (Samsung Omnia HD), the capacitive is very readable even under the sunlight, BUT, I'm not sure if the 65K colors Vs. 16M colors could affect the result.

I agree dfulgo. Although I'm not sure but I think this might really be the case.

If you have seen this video in youtube (link below) where they compared 7 different phones, even the Omnia2 AMOLED screen cannot compare to the Iphone's sunlight legibility. I think this is really mainly because of the strong reflection on the glass for the Omnia2, and not just the brightness of the screen. And the Omnia HD with capacitive screen looks better in sunlight than Omnia2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8b5Jb_dB3M

I'm hoping this is the case, so we might have good sunlight legibility for the HD2!

Originally Posted by warnold007

I think this is really mainly because of the strong reflection on the glass for the Omnia2, and not just the brightness of the screen.

I am pretty sure it's because of it being an AMOLED screen. Those always have bad sunlight readability.

I think I read somewhere, that the HD2 was ok outdoors, but I am not really sure. Well, we will know for sure when it's out.