On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Tinman wrote:
>> iPhone is huge compared to devices which have twice or four times the
>> screen resolution. Apple must have gotten a cheap deal on some old
>> technology LCDs
> Bzzzt. Wrong. You really do your argument a disservice when you make these
> kinds of ridiculous assertions.
> Most phones have half the iPhone's pixel count--and this includes
> recently-introduced "iPhone killers."

You keep on harping on phones, when I am talking about mobile devices.
iPhone, by claiming to be an Internet access device instead of just a
phone, must be compared by the standards of mobile devices.

Nokia N800 has a screen which is only slighty larger than the iPhone, yet
has twice (640x480) the number of pixels as iPhone (320x480). Sony UX
series has a screen which is only slightly larger than that, but is a
whopping 1024x600 pixels.

The difference is density. iPhone has HUGE pixels, and looks like a
newspaper photo. Apple bought some leftover LCDs from that Japanese phone
makers used 3 years ago (I know all about 320x480 phones, they were common
in Japan in late 2004).

While you iPhone fanboys are oohing and aahing over your old technology
LCDs, people with real mobile devices are using real screens. So are
phone users in Japan.

-- Mark --

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