Thread: n900 coming at end of Q3 2008
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2008-10-09 , 17:41
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Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
Yes, changing resolutions is rather tricky. Take iPhone with 320x480 for instance. Changing the resolution for the next HW would then basically break the current 3rd party applications (or at least make them look bad) - especially since they still don't have resolution independence and are drawing their stuff using bitmaps.
Whereas with OS2008, 3rd-party apps would be fine, and Nokia stuff (and Skype) would be broken... from my experience with rotation, anyway.

(There is the obvious, if not great, option for the iPhone to jump to about 640x960, and use pixel-doubling for legacy support; we can't reasonably do that, because 1600x960 screens in <5" diagonal are not available or very useful.)
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