Scott Martin wrote:
I'd eventually like to see bluetooth-like connectively with the i1Pro and press devices.
Why should the device have to workaround limitations of a single portable device family ? Most instruments need power anyway, and having non-replacable batteries is not a nice option in a device that will be around for more than 3 years.
Save some money and leave the LCD off the device and make it an iOS/Android app.
How does that save money ? You need to buy a device running iOS/Android to use it (at typically a comparable cost to the instrument itself), making the whole thing more expensive, fragile and complicated to develop and support. (Something like an iPad is a luxury device - it fits in between a phone and a laptop/desktop computer. It may be nice to have, and work well in certain niches, but it doesn't replace either of the other devices.)
How nice would it be to take ambient light and spot measurements with a handheld device without a desktop and see the results graphed out instantly on an iOS device? Fun possibilities that don't justify the development, I'm sure.
That's a rather different user case (field measurement) to printing test charts and profiling printers and displays. Graeme Gill.