Screen size

[adrian cockcroft]

Apple's rendering model for the screen looks to me as if its resolution
independent and antialiased, which means that it appears to have higher
resolution than the raw pixel count. This is harder to do using an X11 based
rendering model, but if we move to OpenGL eventually it would be comparable.
I don't know if there are any other options to render to a large X11 virtual
frame buffer with antialiasing down to a smaller size (possibly with
pan/zoom capability?)

Adrian

On 3/12/07, Tim Shannon <shannon.timothy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It looks to me like the Neo's screen resolution is higher even though it's
> a small screen.
>
> Screen 3.5" 320x480 at 160 ppi, multi-touch 2.8" 480x640 at 285 ppi, maybe
> multi-touch later<http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-December/000576.html>NEO
> specs on the right.
>
> As I understand it, the IPHONE isn't meant to be used with a stylus, but
> the NEO optionally can be.  Personally I'd rather have the higher
> resolution.  If they would potentially switch to this other screen, would
> they be sacrificing the resolution, and if so would it be worth it?
>
>
> On 3/12/07, Steven ** <montgoss+openmokocommunity at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was doing some size comparisons and it raised a question.
> >
> > People at FIC are probably sick and tired of being compared to the
> > iPhone, but it is quite the competition when it comes to hardware.
> > For example, http://www.sizeasy.com/page/comp/971 is a comparison
> > between the iPhone and its screen against the Neo1973 and its screen.
> > As you can see, the percentage of the face occupied by the screen is
> > significantly more on the iPhone...
> >
> > I got the size of the Neo1973's screen from
> > http://www.tpo.biz/ENG/business-eng/Activer-Matrix-VGA.htm  It is
> > there that I noticed another screen: the TD035STEE1.  As you can see
> > here, http://www.sizeasy.com/page/comp/972 it is the exact same size
> > as the iPhone's screen.  Is that screen compatible with the rest of
> > the Neo1973 hardware?  What would have to be changed to support that
> > bigger screen?  Could it be a after-market mod?
> >
> > I'm not a hardware guy and most of the acronyms on that TPO site mean
> > nothing to me, so type slowly.
> > -Steven
> >
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