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	solarion	2009-10-19 , 14:55
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Originally Posted by attila77

This part is irrelevant - you can render any document size on any display, it is 'only' the question of readability. On a 3.5" display you are talking about sub-millimeter sized letters, and if that's acceptable, I'd like to ask for a second opinion from your ophthalmologist Seriously, try it out on a N900 if you can, for example in terminal, you can use *really* small fonts but it's not pleasant at all, especially for prolonged use (like books and publications). And it's not the point of not having enough pixels, stuff simply gets so small you literally have to look at it like a baby, having the device 10cm from your eyes.

Also, this depends on what the meaning of "is" is. Or, more accurately, what "rendering" means. Yes, you can technically render the entire works of Dickens into 1 pixel, but I'd not really call this "rendering".

Second, upon what do you base your "sub-millimeter sized letters" claim? On my n810, a full column of text (rotate right, and fit to page width) gives a letter size of approximately 3mm high and 2mm wide (eyeball guesstimation; I don't have a ruler handy). n810 has a 4.1" screen, and n900 has a 3.5" screen. .6" is approximately a 15% reduction in diagonal length. At 3x2mm, this is becomes 2.55x1.7mm. I think this would still be legible.

Anyhow, it's clear we have a disagreement here. I go with whatever. It's not like I'm a nokia designer or anything. Nokia has my feedback if they want it. If you want to keep telling me that I don't want what I want, then please keep talking and kudosing yourselves.

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Last edited by solarion; 2009-10-19 at 14:56. Reason: The letters are 3x2mm, not the column :)

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