well today I got to hold and check out a work buddy's HTC HD2 - aka same 4.3" TFT as the EVO 4G... we actually walked outside to go to lunch so perfect change to verify the reality of the HD2/EVO's TFT vs my Nexus' AMOLED... of course I had my brightness cranked to 100% to be outside, but it was readable... i'm not sure what brightness setting the HD2 was at (wasn't familiar enough to know which settings to quickly check... but I assume 100% since he just got it... usually brightness is set to max out of the box, and if he had autobrightness on, it would have been maxed out due to how sunny it was out)....
Well LOW AND BEHOLD... the readibility of the HD2's TFT was *no better or worse* that the Nexus' AMOLED... not saying the AMOLED is great outside, but it would seem the HD2 TFT isn't as great as the iphone's TFT or blackberry 9700's (these are 2 phones I've had that had amazing readibility in direct bright sunlight - best I had seen so far anyways...)
so having seen first hand an HD2 outside in bright sunlight... i can now rest easier about the Nexus' AMOLED... ie. even switching to an HD2 or an EVO 4G - it wouldn't be any better....
PS - inside the office, I can honestly say that while the sheer size of the HD2 screen was downright amazing, the colours and vividness of the screen just wasn't there... it was very much like the pics a few posts above... didn't look bad, just didn't jump out as much as the Nexus screen... seeing is believing...