07-14-2003, 10:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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New PDA Technology on the Way
"A new Fujitsu high pixel screen has been developed, which enables PDAs, or personal digital assistants, to receive high quality broadcasts, digital TV. The device has three times the number of pixels as existing LCD screens, which will improve the average PDA resolution 60-70%. The technology used quickly changes the color of backlights of the three primary colors - that is, red, blue and green - while already existing LCD screens use individual dots, in any one of the primary colours."
800 x 600? Wow. 8O Hopefully with pressure like this from manufacturers, Microsoft will respond by giving us higher resolutions on the Pocket PC. My excitement waned when I read this however:
"Sources say that Fujitsu hopes to commercialize the new LCD in a few years after the defect rate during mass production is reduced to an acceptable level."
It looks like we'll be waiting a bit longer. But maybe that means that 640 x 480 screens are closer than we think... :wink:
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07-14-2003, 11:00 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2002
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why would anyone want anything more than a 320x240 screen?
heck, i think i would do just fine with 8 Mb even....
8O
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07-14-2003, 11:16 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2002
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640x480 would be a 400% increase over 320x240. I really doubt that this 65% increase in pixel density will be important at all, except allow devices to be slightly smaller. I'd recommend thinking of it as a 65% decrease in screen size, not a 65% increase in resolution (because that's really not that much).
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07-14-2003, 11:24 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
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maybe that means that 640 x 480 screens are closer than we think...
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do you know something about this? with the hp2210, resolution is the last thing stopping me from upgrading from my reliable e125
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07-14-2003, 11:26 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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And I thought this technology was right around the corner. Silly me :cry:
When this screen technology is released, Pocket PC's should be up in the 1GHZ range by then.... Will we ever get to the perfect PDA?
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07-14-2003, 11:28 PM
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Executive Editor
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Originally Posted by MooseMaster
640x480 would be a 400% increase over 320x240. I really doubt that this 65% increase in pixel density will be important at all, except allow devices to be slightly smaller. I'd recommend thinking of it as a 65% decrease in screen size, not a 65% increase in resolution (because that's really not that much).
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This has inspired me to finish a post I started a while back - saying that more pixels on the same size screen won't help is a little ignorant of how important the issue of PPI is to screen clarity. Look for my post tomorrow...
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07-14-2003, 11:50 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by Cortex
why would anyone want anything more than a 320x240 screen?
heck, i think i would do just fine with 8 Mb even....
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Yeah who needs anything more than a 320x240 screen and 8 MB's of RAM on a PDA? No one would ever need more than that. Plus who wants to play high res videos on a PDA? This high rez screen idea is just crazy talk or the boose talkin'... :drinking: 
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07-15-2003, 01:20 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
This has inspired me to finish a post I started a while back - saying that more pixels on the same size screen won't help is a little ignorant of how important the issue of PPI is to screen clarity. Look for my post tomorrow...
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Preaching to the converted here 
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07-15-2003, 01:40 AM
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07-15-2003, 01:57 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Every day I want for 480x640 screen on my beloved iPAQ. I use Word and Excel every day and Word all thoughout the day. I like to see several columns in Excel and I outline at several placements (i.e. I.A.1.a.1.a, etc) so 480 width is necessary.
I often keep my iPAQ in landscape mode at 480x240 resolution for input; I change it back to normal 240x320 for reading, etc. I also view Word at 75% during input at this resolution and it is manageable but not pretty. The iPAQ 3600 screen dissociates the colors at this subpixel level and it can give you a headache if you were to read it that way. But for input, I am mostly looking at Fitaly and just keeping track of my position on the screen.
The upshot is that the characters will not be too small at higher resolution but the screen must support that resolution. I have seen digital cameras with 320x320 resolution screens with a size of about three to four centimeters so I think that increasing screen resolution is not so expensive. Frankly, I would pay a lot more for a device that gave me the resolution that need.
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