On Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 9:55:09 PM UTC-8, Ramy wrote:
You can get a decent refurbished S8+ for around $250. I just did.
The screen brightness is even better than my old Dell Streak and the screen is slightly bigger even though the overall size of the phone is significantly smaller than the Dell Streak.
I can’t imagine a need for any brighter screen, nor a justification to compromise the additional functionality which color provides vs the Kobo. I understand that an option to overlay with skysight is coming, so one more reason to have a color screen. Not to mention the advantage of modern touch screens and gestures vs the Kobo which I believe is pressure sensitive touch screen.
I also ran it at home for 8 hours and it only used half the battery capacity. It was in flight mode and the screen was on all the time. I am not sure if it takes more battery when in flight. Hope to try it in the air soon.

Ramy

I have an S9+ which does seem to work well in sunlight (I think similar screen as the S8+). The problem I experienced was the connectivity to the CAI302 via the K6bt Bluetooth as they don't have the same protocol. I guess running the phone on it's own gps should work just fine but of course not as desirable as having it sync with a flight computer.