GTA03: New case? Bigger screen!

Tomi N/A hefest at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 12:20:15 CEST 2008


2008/6/10 Robert Taylor <robtaylor at tinsputnik.com>:
> Ortwin Regel wrote:
>> There has been all this fruitless talk about resolution. Well, what is
>> really limiting the Neo's screen right now is not resolution
>> (obviously), not speed (at least not on the GTA01, no idea how messed
>> up the 02 situation is. I'd guess it's faster most of the time.) but
>> size! If the GTA03 get's a new case design, please consider making the
>> screen twice as big! Then we are finally at a size were
>> two-thumb-typing starts to make sense and even people with bad eye
>> sight can benefit from the high resolution (although I'm not convinced
>> that second point is a positive one... <_<). The device wouldn't even
>> have to be bigger for this because so much space was wasted in the
>> original Neo design. The only handheld I have owned where the screen
>> could be called big enough was the Tapwave Zodiac (RIP). If you shave
>> off the gaming controls and make it a little thicker, you get a very
>> decent phone.
>> Also, I suggest concentrating more on the horizontal usage. For
>> example, bring the stereo speakers back but add one below and one
>> above the display so that they are left and right in landscape. You
>> can get a pretty good stereo effect at that distance.
>>
>> Ortwin
>>
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> I second this post.

I third it.




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