You mean, the only thing that truly blows them away is the resolution<br>of the screen... Which you can have with any type of modern LCD panel,<br>can you not?<br><br> /Anton<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Thorben Krueger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thkruege@googlemail.com">thkruege@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">+1 indeed, the screen is about the only thing that truly blows<br>
people's minds away atm...<br>
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2008/11/21 Ken Young <<a href="mailto:rtm@cfa.harvard.edu">rtm@cfa.harvard.edu</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Denis Galvao wrote:<br>
>>>On 21/11/2008, at 13:20, Ken Young wrote:<br>
>>>> Really, we don't need a hi res screen on a day by day gadget<br>
>>><br>
>>> I could not possibly disagree more strongly.<br>
>><br>
>>So, give me a reason where you will need that.<br>
><br>
> As long as we have at least a VGA resolution screen, it is<br>
> relatively easy for us to port linux desktop applications to<br>
> the Openmoko phones. Once we drop down to HVGA, or (heaven<br>
> forbid!) QVGA, there will need to be extensive UI redesign<br>
> to get most apps. from the desktop world to run on an OM phone,<br>
> especially when a soft keyboard is needed. So reducing the<br>
> resolution will greatly reduce the code base we can leverage.<br>
> In addition, I don't think you can ever had too many pixels on<br>
> a machine you intend to run a web browser on. Right now,<br>
> when I show someone my Freerunner, the only thing that impresses<br>
> them is the display. It would be a shame if OM dropped the<br>
> one part of its hardware that is actually superior to what<br>
> is found on other smartphones.<br>
><br>
> Ken Young<br>
><br>
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