QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
hns at computer.org
Sat Jun 7 12:08:05 CEST 2008
>>> 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.
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.
Nikolaus
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