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Peter@Maemo Marketing	2009-05-25 , 18:25
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Originally Posted by fms

Alas, this explanation does not address two very common uses for the current N8x0 tablets:

1. Reading books (with FBReader)
2. Watching movies

Both activities are already done in full screen mode most of the time. Making screen physically smaller severely limits them. By the way, most people browse the web in full screen mode too, so making screen smaller will either make them squint or increase fonts and scroll.

Fair statement. The industrial design needs to be such that it supports the main use cases. If reading books would be the main use case, I don't think 4 inch is the ideal resolution either. What display size makes sense for watching movies is still undecided. Obviously, there are many Nseries multimedia computers out there with video play functionality that would dream only of a screen size between 3 and 4 inch. Most of them selling rather nicely such as the great N95 which I still call my own. My TV is a 32 inch flat screen. Fine for me. What we have confirmed is that we will support WVGA resolution. What display size a device will have depends on the product concept (and no, we have not announced any product with Maemo 5).

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