Thread: N900 specs revealed
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2009-06-02 , 12:21
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Originally Posted by volt View Post
The 5800 just isn't. 640x360 means much fewer pixels, much fewer characters when you're reading. And it's hardly a standard resolution either. If it compares to 800x480 in your eyes, you're trying to hard.
At the same smallish screen size, it does compare to 800x480 in my eyes. I do not really care if letters in the book I am reading consist of more pixels, as long as they are smooth and readable.

Also, you're mistaken about the HTC display sizes, the Diamond2 is a smaller phone. Display_Diagonal: 3.2"
Oh That is even worse than I thought.

Read up on this phone and you might find that the display is popular. HTC stats are very popular. The OS isn't. Yes, the phones are bug ridden. But not because of the display!
5800 display is also "very popular", but nobody buys the display alone. If you look at these devices as a whole though, 5800 is a pretty nice, usable, cheap phone with a slim high-def screen. The screen is on the smallish side but it isn't too small for a phone. Now, any HTC device gets horrible once you go behind their custom visual sugar. This alone is the single biggest reason against buying an HTC phone. And guess what? You have just said that it has the same screen size (diagonally), just more pixels. So I am not even sure why anyone would buy that HTC phone.

The big thing in the phone world is that 800x480 is a new cool thing on high end touch phones. It went from none except PDAs to a whole bunch of them. Symbian trails behind. Nokia would not want Symbian to trail behind.
Sorry but I fail to see why 800x480 is such a big thing on a 3.2" screen. You do not see all these pixels anyway.

"Megapixel race". Pff. iPhone started a trend of big screens with low resolution. Now we get big screens with very good resolution.
3.2" is not a big screen. It basically renders the benefits of 800x480 resolution useless.
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