Great, thank you very much for the tip. My main gripes when flying have been: - not seeing the map on the display (or anything actually) - not having reliable wind indication in mountains (I don't have air speed sensor)
To solve these problems without spending thousands is a challenge. Googling for "Dell Streak direct sunlight" brings up some great demonstrations, so hopefully it's gonna be really good. Any plans get serial input into the device? Or any other way to transfer air speed or even magnetic heading? Tibor On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 16:55, Max Kellermann <m...@duempel.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to buy a Dell Streak 5" for XCSoar, replacing my old > iPaq hx4700. It runs with Android, not Windows CE. We will release a > "stable" version of XCSoar for Android in March or April 2011, and > this switch to Android in my own glider will give me some more > motivation to make our Android version more mature. XCSoar is > available for free on the Android Market. > > The Streak arrived today, and I've installed XCSoar on it. As > expected, it is faster than my old HTC Magic. The CPU is a modern 1 > GHz Snapdragon ARM chip, with good OpenGL support. > > http://max.kellermann.name/gallery/fliegen/streak/PICT0367_1024x768.html > > The Streak is bigger than PDAs, but not a lot. 5 inch is just the > right size for the cockpit. Mobile phones are too small, and tablets > are too large. > > The display is a transflective TFT, which looks pretty bright. The > weather is overcast today in Germany, no direct sunlight to test with. > At normal daylight, it looks much brighter than a hx4700 and a Dell > Axim x51v. It is comparable to the Altair display, but one needs to > consider that the Altair has an antireflective display, while the > Streak seems like a mirror - applying an anti-glare layer will reduce > its brightness slightly. > > http://max.kellermann.name/gallery/fliegen/streak/PICT0376_1024x768.html > > The Streak has a high-resolution display (800x480, same as the LX Mini > Map and iPaq 31x). The Altair has 320x240, and the other PDAs on the > photo have 640x480. An Oudie is limited to 480x272. I would not go > below 640x480, and 800x480 feels comfortable. > > The display is capable of multi-touch. XCSoar doesn't have > multi-touch yet, but we will eventually implement that. > > More pictures: http://max.kellermann.name/gallery/fliegen/streak/ > > Max > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Xcsoar-user mailing list > Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
