Official information from Siglent. 1.11.2017
Siglent (Siglent Technologies Europe GmbH) do not stock SDS1102X model anymore.
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General storylines:
And this is NOT alone about just Siglent. There is many.
What I have never understood, not yesterday, not today and not tomorrow.
Change from 8" display to 7" displays. Even more bad now after SDS1000X-E series have also 4 channel models.
I understand it with price. But also can ask, why go to tight price competition with cheapest bottoms. Look for what ever equipment, from dmm to TV sets and bicycles. Who believe cheapest win and get best total profit.
Example I with my own eyes have very severe problems with 7" TFT in oscilloscope with very tiny text information on screen, looks like no one have designed it - only just drop out from slapdash hands something. After these boys and girls who design these things come to over 40, 50, 60... eyes adaptation to different distances change and also eyes accuracy other ways may decay. Example here in Finland is lot of professionals and really lot of (proportionally to population) hobbyists who are over 50 years and I can easy find over 80 years electronics hobbyists who still are buying new modern equipments. This is because here we have been deep inside electronics very long time. But these new things are designed for youths with good well adaptive eyes etc. This is wrong road. All we know that around of world we have more and more older peoples who also do lot of things and activities after 60 and 70 years. They have hobbies, they are even working. But things are designed for more and more younger peoples. This is paradoxal phenomena. Who manufacturer understand this today he can win later. This is fact in many area of goods and things. Also money is there. China is bit different with these technical things because electronics development there is so so young. Ten years ago in China I ask where I can find electronics hobbyists. Peoples did not even understand what I askl. Today is different but there my mutual opinion is, hobbyists average age is far lower than here in western countries. This is what we also can see in chinese design.
Lets hope next economy price model is minimum 8" display or better if 10" and with full separate controls and good designed and professionally finished UI. Starting from fonts and ending how encoders work and how keyboard feel and work and what are ergonomic positions of controls. This part of design need most high level knowledge and hard-core experience and knowledge about human psycho-physical "features and specifications".