Survey about the Touchscreen

Anton Persson don.juanton at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 08:59:57 CET 2008


I agree, VGA is a step forward.

But I don't think _anyone_ on this list would say that lower resolution is
better.

I wonder, why are people bringing up the resolution as a discussion topic
when everyone agrees on it?

    Best regards
       Anton

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Leonti Bielski <prishelec at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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