Thread: N900 specs revealed
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2009-06-02 , 21:08
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
From what I understand the optimization can go in various ways, and this includes the rendering and the font
This reminds me of a well known FAQ on baking eggs in a microwave. See, text rendering optimizations only help if you have got a few big pixels and your text looks chunky. If you have got lots of tiny pixels, you do not need to optimize font rendering that much. Unfortunately, if your letters are too small physically, the reader won't be able to see them well, no matter how you render them. And if they are big enough for the reader to see, you are guaranteed to have enough pixels to render text without any tricks.

Do you know why the letters become too small to read? Because inherent to fixed width font is that it is optimized for fixed width first and then for readability.
Never did I say anything about fixed fonts. All I have been saying is that physically small letters are difficult to read. I have no idea what makes you try to work around this fact again and again. There are no workarounds, other than using a magnifying glass. Really. Trust me on this.

Now, if youth are able to use a 3.5" correct and without problem while elder are not we might have a special market for those elder. The Nokia N900 O-Series (for Old people). I doubt it will see the light though. So perhaps you need a different manufacturer.
Sorry, but this is plain ********, as many people here will tell you pretty soon, I am afraid.
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