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Originally Posted by damager
This final screen just looks unusable to me. Maybe its my 40 year old eyes, but what is the point of making things this small?
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Well, the screen is larger on the PDA itself, and is quite readable (I scaled it down). It's not for "casual" glances, but it's surprisingly usable.
Update: I added full versions so you get a better idea of what they really look like.
Kati comes close to the point. By starting out with small font sizes, you can scale up as you want. In SE's mode, you benefit
less from the high resolution except for the fact that everything is much crisper. Mind you, that's an amazing benefit, but there
are those of us that want to quadruple the amount of information we have on the screen. Additionally, "old" programs don't benefit in SE mode, as they simply pixel-double. eReader is the perfect example: it's nearly useless in SE, as it's not SE-aware. In "real" VGA, you just pick a larger font in eReader, and you're set.
In any case, this remains a
choice, something that a lot of First Edition e805 users have been clamoring for since the release of the SE update.
Anyway... I think it's probably worth writing up a detailed article on what exactly SE does and doesn't do, seeing as how there are now two VGA screens on the market. A few additional screenshots would be helpful. I'll see about releasing something like that towards the end of this week.
--janak