On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:08:05 +0200 "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> >>> How is the iPhone doing it? It has Half-VGA resolution and "feels" > >> very smooth. > > > > it has a hardware-accelerated 3d chipset with full opengl drivers. > > and a very > > good chipset at that. that is why. as for half-vga. that's still > > HALF the > > pixels the freerunner/neo1973 have. *IF* we shipped the same screen > > - we'd have > > > better performance. i find it interesting how so many peole rave > > about how > > great the iphone screen is - but its tech specs are not so hot. it's > > dpi is > > I would also like to have a better screen on the iPhone! If you open a > web page > you have always to zoom in the first step. > > > pretty bad compared to the standard these days. but that sure as > > hell has not > > > It would still be approx. 30% better than a QVGA 2'8... > > > stopped it selling. :) this is why i ask - actual products and > > reality seem to > > show that dpi is not a major factor. at least as best i can tell. > > I have now thought a lot about why they have chossen 320x480. > > Most probably, they have spent a lot of money and useability research > to find the > **best compromise** between number of pixels, dpi, speed, readibility, > information > density and cost. > > Conclusion: > > * QVGA is worse (!) than the best compromise (as benchmarked by the > iPhone) > * VGA is better to use - which has its price. also screens available at the time of development, would have factored in, cost, but remember - they posess a massive amount more compute grunt to drive their screen. we posess much less, so for the cpu power we have qvga is the equivalent of 320x480 on the iphone - if we follow the above logic. > So how should one decide between two contradicting requirements? > > In the view of openness and unknown future applications, I would pay > the price > to go beyond the best compromise. Even if it needs a more expensive > processor > to get the speed. this is the thing - for now, processor isnt changing. so - it's resolution, or speed that has to give (or features graphically). -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
