Survey about the Touchscreen

Leonti Bielski prishelec at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 01:15:11 CET 2008


Big resolution means better image quality.
We can run qvga apps on our vga screen, don't we? But how can we run
vga apps on qvga screen?
VGA screen is a step forward, QVGA is a step backward. For me it's clear.

Leonti

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Thorben Krueger
<thkruege at googlemail.com> wrote:
> sorry for being imprecise. I was referring to the amazing resolution
> considering the size of the display. The freerunner got 300 dpi IIRC.
> For comparison, the iphone only seems to have 160.
>
> I usually demo the crispness (if you will) of my neo's screen using
> top on the terminal at the smallest readable fontsize to great effect
> :)
>
> 2008/11/21 Anton Persson <don.juanton at gmail.com>:
>> You mean, the only thing that truly blows them away is the resolution
>> of the screen... Which you can have with any type of modern LCD panel,
>> can you not?
>>
>>      /Anton
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Thorben Krueger <thkruege at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> +1 indeed, the screen is about the only thing that truly blows
>>> people's minds away atm...
>>>
>>> 2008/11/21 Ken Young <rtm at cfa.harvard.edu>:
>>> > Denis Galvao wrote:
>>> >>>On 21/11/2008, at 13:20, Ken Young wrote:
>>> >>>> Really, we don't need a hi res screen on a day by day gadget
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I could not possibly disagree more strongly.
>>> >>
>>> >>So, give me a reason where you will need that.
>>> >
>>> > As long as we have at least a VGA resolution screen, it is
>>> > relatively easy for us to port linux desktop applications to
>>> > the Openmoko phones.   Once we drop down to HVGA, or (heaven
>>> > forbid!) QVGA, there will need to be extensive UI redesign
>>> > to get most apps. from the desktop world to run on an OM phone,
>>> > especially when a soft keyboard is needed.   So reducing the
>>> > resolution will greatly reduce the code base we can leverage.
>>> > In addition, I don't think you can ever had too many pixels on
>>> > a machine you intend to run a web browser on.   Right now,
>>> > when I show someone my Freerunner, the only thing that impresses
>>> > them is the display.   It would be a shame if OM dropped the
>>> > one part of its hardware that is actually superior to what
>>> > is found on other smartphones.
>>> >
>>> > Ken Young
>>> >
>>> >
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