Math Tablet for Smartphone is Available as a Free Public Beta

[Jerry Raia]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://statsnow.net/smartphone/' target='_blank'>http://statsnow.net/smartphone/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Math Tablet for Smartphones is an advanced scientific application designed for scientists and engineers. The software is compatible with Math Tablet for PocketPCs and WindowsXP"</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Jerry-mathtablet.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />Yes Yes YES! This looks great! It doesn't support QVGA yet, so me and my 2125 are out of luck but that will be coming soon. In the mean time this free beta is good until March and then the final product will sell for $14.95 the site says. Did I mention it is RPN? :)

[Sven Johannsen]

It doesn't support QVGA yet, so me and my 2125 are out of luck
How come? Doesn't the smartphone just pixel double for most standard apps just like a VGA PPC? Gotta jump through hoops to even get to real VGA on a PPC, unless the app is specifically written to take advantage of the "high" res. I would have expected something similar on the QVGA SP. (I'll know in a couple of days. Got an SP5 on order)

[Jerry Raia]

Doesn't the smartphone just pixel double for most standard apps just like a VGA PPC?

I wish it worked that well. I've seen some strange displays on my 2125 with apps that weren't redone for QVGA. Others just worked fine.

[hotdram]

Did I mention it is RPN? :)

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~Rob

[Jerry Raia]

:twak:

[Mike Temporale]

How come? Doesn't the smartphone just pixel double for most standard apps just like a VGA PPC?

Nah, unfortunately it doesn't work like that. We didn't double our screen size. We went from 172x220 to 240x320 If you doubled things, it would end up being too large. :-(

Congrats on the SP5. Let us know how you like it. 8)

[Sven Johannsen]

How come? Doesn't the smartphone just pixel double for most standard apps just like a VGA PPC?

Nah, unfortunately it doesn't work like that. We didn't double our screen size. We went from 172x220 to 240x320 If you doubled things, it would end up being too large. :-(

Hmm, well that will be interesting then to see what does work and what doesn't. For those that didn't come from a PPC world, or hadn't played with VGA PPCs, essentialy they show the same info as a regular QVGA PPC, but much more crisply, using twice as many pixels. There are some advantages in that you can do some custom font sizing to get a bit more info or a bit bigger font smoothly, but for the most part the basic display is about the same, info-wise. There are hacks to force "true VGA" but some programs that are not size aware just wind up in the top left qudrant of the screen. Otherwise you get a display that all the elements are 1/4 the size they used to be. Doesn't work well for some of us old folks. Yea, you get twice as many rows and columns on a spreadsheet, but the numbers are too small for me to read, for example.

[Mike Temporale]

There are hacks to force "true VGA" but some programs that are not size aware just wind up in the top left qudrant of the screen.

In my expereince, this is what ends up happening on the QVGA Smartphones. Now, I have tried to avoid installing non-WinMo5 apps. If the developer doesn't list WinMo5, then I won't install it.

[Sven Johannsen]

There are hacks to force "true VGA" but some programs that are not size aware just wind up in the top left qudrant of the screen.

In my expereince, this is what ends up happening on the QVGA Smartphones. Now, I have tried to avoid installing non-WinMo5 apps. If the developer doesn't list WinMo5, then I won't install it.

Bet that's some tiny text. Good to know. Anyone stuck Pocket Streets and/or Mapopolis on a QVGA phone?

[Jerry Raia]

Anyone stuck Pocket Streets and/or Mapopolis on a QVGA phone?

Yep, they both seem to look and work fine. :)

[Sven Johannsen]

Great. With those, Facade and Papyrus I'm pretty much all set. Oh, and Juni themes of course :P