On Friday 06 June 2008 19:18:43 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Yes. This should be IMHO the future for GTA03 - use a better chipset > rather than a worse display resolution.
Full ACK. > Some application I have choosen makes regular screen updates: > > Neo 1973 every 0.5 seconds (due to more work for the higher > number of > pixels) > Acer n30 every 0.3 seconds (same CPU but QVGA) > Zaurus C3100 every 0.3 secons (with X/Qt on VGA) > > So, the difference is not that large by different architectures and > display resolutions. > The astonishing thing is that the C3100 is faster than the Neo with > the same display. > I.e. Display resolution by itself can not be the main issue with speed. The PXA27x runs circles around the S3C2410. > This brings me to a point not discussed so far. IMHO it also depends > on whether Finger or Pen > operation is used. With the finger, you have to reduce the display > content anyway - like the iPhone > working with many sheets moving from left to the right etc. But if you > operate by pen, you have a > much better precision so select something and you expect and can > handle a much higher information > density on a single page. So, a better screen reduces the number of > flipping/switching operations. > > Finally, I think since the GTA03 platform should not rule out either > finger or pen operation, it must fulfill the higher requirements. That's what I was thinking as well. Cheers, Mickey. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
