01-09-2006, 01:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Drool Central: LG's VGA SPR LCD
This is LG's low-power VGA SPR (sub-pixel rendering) LCD for PDAs. It has a screen size of 2.4" supporting a 480 x 640 resolution, though when defined by lines, it has a "potential" visual resolution of 1440 x 960. It has been created for the sole purpose of making hungry consumers, like us, weep with joy.  imp:
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01-09-2006, 01:18 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 805
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Very nice "potential" :lol: ..Let me imagine that I am browsing on pocket IE and want to select something with my stylus on the screen having such great "potential" :wink: resolution !! And I'd be trying "my fingers to the bone" in 'tapping' the right link 
Anyway, jokes apart..nice innovation :mrgreen:
Sunny
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01-09-2006, 02:59 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 952
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I'll never get used to these itty-bitty screens. If this keeps up I'm going to switch to a itty-bitty laptop. Bigger is better!
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01-09-2006, 03:20 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by Don't Panic!
I'll never get used to these itty-bitty screens. If this keeps up I'm going to switch to a itty-bitty laptop. Bigger is better!
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I can't agree more !! Today i compared 5555 n my mini. after five mins my eyes started hurting on mini but ipaq's screen was a big asset
Sunny
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01-09-2006, 04:22 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 267
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If it's used to make things sharper, as opposed to cramming more on the screen, I'm all for it. I still wouldn't want a screen quite this small, but sharper text and graphics would be welcome. I have an iPAQ 4700 and couldn't imagine ever going back to a QVGA screen. Unlike many, I like the "QVGA info on a VGA screen" approach that MS took with the OS. I've tried true VGA on the 4700 and didn't like it. Put it next to a QVGA device running the same software, though, with the same screens being displayed, and the VGA screen looks like a high resolution print.
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01-09-2006, 04:23 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 165
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A screen like this would be useful for any graphical purposes where you need to see a lot of detail. For all other purposes, buttons could be created at high-DPI to make them appear as big as the QVGA ones. Granted, this display will need a serious graphics processor, and at least 50% bigger size, preferably 60%. This has great potential in handheld PCs as well. I'm really excited about this. :drool:
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01-09-2006, 06:54 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 92
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WoW! 8O
I really would like to see this screen on an Atom Pocket PC Phone!!!
Thankfully I have 20/20 eyesight... still. :lol:
Nice innovation!!! :mrgreen:
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01-09-2006, 08:44 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Does it come with a magnifying glass? I just can't comprehend VGA on a screen that small. Everything would be so small it would be almost unusable, I think.
Dave
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01-09-2006, 11:06 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 165
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Ladies and germs, the Phone Monocle.
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01-10-2006, 05:13 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by Paragon
Does it come with a magnifying glass? I just can't comprehend VGA on a screen that small. Everything would be so small it would be almost unusable, I think.
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I imagine at high DPI (i.e. the current Windows Mobile model for VGA), a 2.4" VGA would be just as usable as a 2.4" QVGA, if not, sharper.
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