Thread: Screen Colours / Color Depth: 16 million or 65K?
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maxximuscool is offline maxximuscool
2010-03-26 , 00:29
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Originally Posted by zwer View Post
That's normal, one uses 24-bit palette, the other 16-bit so you'll of course have visible blocks with a lesser number of colors. But you'll have the same view on all hand-held devices featuring LCD screens out there.

However, try to snap a photo with a high-quality camera if you want to actually see the real quality of the screen. Or lower color depth to 16-bit on your desktop machine and then try to compare the screens. Or compare the N900's screen with some other cell-phone/MID device with an LCD screen and you'll see how good actually is the N900's screen.

Grabbing a snapshot DOES NOT show the screen quality, but a framebuffer that is yet to be sent to the screen via the graphics card.
Mind to do that then? I don't have camera lying around. This is why this post say 16bits!! and 65K colours! If the OS can boosting to 24bits or 32bits even better, then those blocks will be less. Linux can do that too, not just windows, changing graphic depth is all depending on the graphic driver. But why on earth didn't NOKIA by default set it to 24bits or 32bits? May be because Nokia doesn't have the right driver?


Beside, sharpness is not better quality screen, quality screen doesn't always depending on the sharpness of the picture, it also depending on rendering colours and depth of the screen as well.

You can have a sharp screen with crappy rendering and it won't be any quality to it. Take a look at a black and white!! Will you say black and white screen a good quality screen? The screen can be good but there is the colour is not real then it is not a quality screen.
Last edited by maxximuscool; 2010-03-26 at 00:32.