On Monday, January 20, 2020 at 12:55:09 AM UTC-5, 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

People's eyes differ. What I've seen of the Dell Streak did not look usable in sunshine to me. I use Tophat on a Nook Simple Touch with its large monochrome e-ink reflective screen. That's despite the hassles of getting a GPS data source (and external power) attached to it, although now that I have it set up with a direct cable to the FLARM it has advantages over a standalone phone. I sometimes use a Samsung J3 or J7 for Gliderlink and IGCdroid and as a backup copy of Tophat, but wouldn't want to squint at it for long.