Hallo all,

I´m really looking forward to buy an n900 and cant wait to get one.

I would like to know what kind of resolution is outputted from the n900. Is there only PAL and NTSC resolution possible? Or does it also the native 800*400 Pixel?

Will there be a possibility to change the output with a software hack later (higher as PAL or NTSC)?

So, i also would like to know from the users who already own one, how works the screensize for you? I am really not quite sure if the small 3,5" screen pleases my needs. I liked the 4,3" screen alot and think for a "mobile computer" the 3,5" screen is a big step back! Is it usable without a magnifying glass ?

For few experiences I would be very grateful

thanks tox

I don't have one yet, but I'm quite sure that with the composite output you can't support any resolutions other than PAL and NTSC.

Well it's TV out (PAL & NTSC).

I'll show you a nice vid of it in action: Here

I'm not sure about the rest...

I wouldn't think the screen is that small, it's the right size.

it letterboxes the 800x480 on my 4:3 CRT (NTSC works quite well, i'm having toruble with PAL though)

for me the screen size is pretty nice like the whole phone

It letterboxes the 800x480 (5:3) screen into a 480 line or 576 line (4:3) output. This means the resolution on the display is about 640x384, or 768x460, interlaced in both cases. (Of course, speaking of horizontal resolution WRT composite signals is not very clear -- I'm assuming square "pixels", but it's really continuous and bandwidth-limited to rather less actual resolution.) That's pretty much what you want on a 4:3-only screen.


However, it's quite annoying to me that it doesn't have an option to fill an NTSC frame. The 480 lines works out exactly, and AFAIK all 16:9 TVs and some 4:3 TVs have an option to stretch to widescreen (in the case of a 4:3 set, letting the TV apply letterboxing fills the same screen area as now, but preserves vertical resolution) -- the aspect ratio won't be quite on (16:9/5:3 -- about 7% horizontal stretching), but I'd rather deal with the rectangular pixels than take the 7% resolution decrease; it's trivial to set mplayer to stretch 16:9 content to full-screen, thus ultimately getting correct 480i display. AFAIK this should be possible from a hardware perspective, just needs some digging around in the drivers...