VGA rocks
I have had five QVGA devices, and especially when I moved to converged (so the screen size shrank so the dpi increased) I have never minded it--they look great. Compared to my Apple Newton that was 4bit greyscale they really look great. Then I saw a VGA Dell ppc and it was impressive. PI in month view with mini text is ok on QVGA but rocks in VGA. Then last year I decided it was time to move beyond a WM5 200 omap device. I got one of the first X800's and the screen was awesome! I had to return it as I couldn't make calls. I'm fine with this as I don't think 64 ram is enough (how long will it be before we demand 196 or 256 instead of 128?), no SDHC, and the processor/gpu really needs to support VGA.
I think VGA is just the future of all these devices. I look at my brother's Nokia N800 and N810 and the displays are fabulous. If gpu/cpu's can do better and batteries can handle it (like the 9502's big 1660mah?) then we'll all have these displays. HTC can't hold us back forever!
You can tell I'm watching the 9502. Its spec initially stated 18bit color but has been reduced to 16bit. That's either for processing efficiency, cost reduction, or both. I wonder how much of an impact this will have. The X800 did show banding and other graphic artifacts (even on their bootloader image--you'd think they'd spend a minute in photoshop to optimize it for 16bit color). Any comments on 16 vs 18bit?
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