2008/6/9 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > an 80x24 terminal is possible to make it readable @ qvga - if we allow > scrolling. (and possible in landscape with an ultra-tiny 4-pixel wide font - > possible (3 pixels for text, 1 for space). not very nice though.
That is unusable. I'm sorry, I will not force myself to use that. I will buy something else. Using the terminal on a remote machine with a 4 pixels font is possibile like it is possible to eat cockroaches for lunch everyday. There are some 'can get by' that I will not force myself to get by with. > at some point someone will have to make a call on resolutions. maybe we make a > much smaller phone with a smaller screen and thus you will need to have fewer > pixels anyway? who knows. but if there are uses that cannot be somehow crammed > into qvga, i would like to know. > > right now freerunner is vga - and nothing will change. > gta03 is also vga - it is theoretically possible to change without much > impact, > but chances of a change are very slim, unless qvga is a "that's fine for > everyone" ANd product management want to push it. right now they don't push > one > way or another. > as for future phones - who knows. but knowing what you guys do, want to do, > and > need is important. so we need to think of more virtual framebuffer technology? > (eg advertise a higher res but scale down with a compositor?). is high-res an > absolute must for functionality for your uses, or just a "nice to have" to > show > off with? High res in very important for me. If I were to buy a phone without a high-res screen, it may as well not even have a screen. My home phone does not have a screen and as a phone I have no problem with it. However, it is good for nothing other than making phone calls. That is fine because in the house I have other devices that perform the functions that I need. My portable device, on the other hand, must be capable of more, much more, and everything that is not audio (ie, voice calls or music) requires the use of the screen. Do not skim on that most important of interface devices. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
