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2009-10-16
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Originally Posted by ysss
My eyeballs would implode
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2009-10-16
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@solarion: ok, again the key here is the screen size.
even if you can squeeze 1920x1080 onto a 3.5" display and it may have the resolution to show 8 pages on screen at the same time but will it be practical to use it on that size?
even if you can squeeze 1920x1080 onto a 3.5" display and it may have the resolution to show 8 pages on screen at the same time but will it be practical to use it on that size?
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2009-10-16
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3.5" 800x480 is so eye-burning crisp that increased resolution will just significantly raise the cost and nothing else.
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2009-10-16
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I wish I had your eyesight, I'm having serious trouble with the N900 as is - my eyes simply fail me, after 15 mins of reading it takes me 15 more minutes to adapt back to my natural dioptry. The N810 screen when picked up after the N900 looks huge (it's much more pronounced than the difference when going DOWN to the 3.5" size). Also, I kind of miss the buttons as fullscreening as-is on Fremantle is just not that much fun - especially for apps like the RSS reader, I hope this changes until the final release 
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2009-10-16
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Mabye the extra 0.6" makes a difference. It's possible. I'll know whenever I can afford an n900 or successor. I'm just sayin' that at least on the n810, the resolution is *just* a little to low to make reading a full column possible. The text is just a *little* too smudgey. If you add 60% more pixels, it works fine. That's the empirical data with which I have to work.
The workaround is to zoom a little, and then pan up and down, which sucks.
Maybe my perfect device for reading articles will never exist.
The workaround is to zoom a little, and then pan up and down, which sucks.
Maybe my perfect device for reading articles will never exist.
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2009-10-17
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Originally Posted by ragnar
I don't think the performance will decrease, considering the 770 could run 800x480 without significant problems. A device with about 10 times more processing power should be able to handle a 2 times higher resolution.
The more pixels you have, the slower the device becomes. On some levels it is almost directly (inversely) proportional. The device would be already faster if the display resolution would be lower. So yes, it's fun to dream, but you need to be also aware of what the drawback is.
The real questions are whether the difference will be notable, and if that difference will be worth the increase of the cost.
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2009-10-17
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4.3" screen and 1280x720 would be very nice. That's what I want in my next device (after the N900), and yes. 800x480 is nice, but it's not perfect. More is better imo.
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2009-10-17
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Originally Posted by mece
Agreed, but 800x480 is probably the optimal res for OMAP3.
4.3" screen and 1280x720 would be very nice. That's what I want in my next device (after the N900), and yes. 800x480 is nice, but it's not perfect. More is better imo.
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2009-10-17
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There appears to be confusion between resolution and UI size.
No reason why a 1280x720 screen on 3.5inch cant work. You just need to optimize the fonts and rendering. The Linux boys are moving towards SVG for UI elements so that they scale without jaggies for instance.
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No reason why a 1280x720 screen on 3.5inch cant work. You just need to optimize the fonts and rendering. The Linux boys are moving towards SVG for UI elements so that they scale without jaggies for instance.
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2009-10-17
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#20
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The main problem here is that your intended document was not designed to be displayed in small screens in the first place. If it was, then it should support reflow-able text.
To take this issue to the extreme, imagine trying to read a plain 'ol newspaper rendered as a PDF. You can ask for a 2560x2048 3.5" screen (or whatever) to be able to render the whole width of the content but you'll still end up finding the bottleneck elsewhere (your eyes).
To take this issue to the extreme, imagine trying to read a plain 'ol newspaper rendered as a PDF. You can ask for a 2560x2048 3.5" screen (or whatever) to be able to render the whole width of the content but you'll still end up finding the bottleneck elsewhere (your eyes).
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