Drool Central: LG's VGA SPR LCD

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-10938-VGA+SPR%28Sub+Pixel+Rendering%29+LCD+by+LG.html' target='_blank'>http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/new...+LCD+by+LG.html</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20060109-LGVGASPRLCD.jpg" /><br /><br />This is LG's low-power VGA SPR (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-pixel_smoothing">sub-pixel rendering</a>) 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. :pimp:

[pocketpcadmirer]

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 :D

Anyway, jokes apart..nice innovation :mrgreen:

Sunny

[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!

[pocketpcadmirer]

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!

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

[jgrnt1]

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.

[signothefish]

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:

[snayar]

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:

[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.

Dave

[signothefish]

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[Darius Wey]

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.

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.

[saru83]

really awesome, but for me it would have been perfect if this resolution was actually on a 3" screen :wink:

[Muntasser]

kudos LG - thats hot.

[Phoenix]

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

I hear ya, and I've gone back and forth as to whether or not I'd want VGA on a screen around this size, but looking at it, I have to say, that I'd love VGA after all.

[TheMouseMan]

I might be completely off here - but couldn't this technology be used for giving us even better screens (SVGA or XVGA) keeping the size of today's PDAs?!?

Given is:
The new LG: 480x640 (VGA) @ 2.4" screen size

Using a bit of Pythagoras and simple math gives us potentially:
600x800 (SVGA) @ 3.00" screen size
768x1024 (XVGA) @ 3.84" screen size

Obviously, this would need a LOT more CPU/GPU power - but imagine a PDA with the resolution of a laptop...

Just a thought from a non-tech guy (feel free to flame me for my ignorance!).

- TheMouseMan

[Darius Wey]

I might be completely off here - but couldn't this technology be used for giving us even better screens (SVGA or XVGA) keeping the size of today's PDAs?!?

It's not as simple as punching in a few figures as you've described, but yes, bigger screens with higher resolution can be developed.

Obviously, this would need a LOT more CPU/GPU power - but imagine a PDA with the resolution of a laptop...

Just a thought from a non-tech guy (feel free to flame me for my ignorance!).

It would be nice. After all, if the DualCor cPC has 800 x 480, why can't others? ;)

The only two things preventing such a move would be (1) price/performance ratio, (2) application compatibility.

[davea0511]

If you guys are interested in seeing what today's technology can do - this is nothing. XGA projectors have been around for years and they use a chip that creates an XGA image the size of a quarter.

So the big thing about this is not that it can be done - it's been doable for a long time. What's surprising is that they did it. The only reason I can think of is that VGA is alot easier to use to view webpages natively (without a layer of code that fudges the resolution), or because it is a stepping stone, as someone said, to making XGA PDA's that are 3.5" or 4".

Another use could be wide-field stereo HMDs, although 2.4" is a little large for that.