Thread: n900 coming at end of Q3 2008
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Hoping/assuming that the future device will not be bigger than an N8x0 - how would a higher resolution help?
Device constraints != screen constraints; it's been suggested an N810-size platform could handle a 5" screen, and an N800-size definitely could.
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
You cant make fonts and gui elements any smaller. in reality you'd have the same space to work with, as long as the screen itself doesn't get bigger.
You can make them even crisper than they are, you can make fonts smaller (although you can right now, too; resolution's not limiting on this at present) and in fact you can make gui elements smaller, at the cost of having to use the stylus; this is useful for ported apps.

And there are too many things designed around pixel spacings (notably on the web) that would be usable fit to the N8x0 display's size, but demand more pixels.

I think on a 5" screen, going as far as 1280x800 is the threshold of usefulness; anything over that probably won't help. But we're still way short of that.
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