Re: What is the best HIGH RESOLUTION combined PDA/mobile phone?

Mehdi wrote:
> On 6 Sep 2006 03:54:35 -0700, Paddy wrote:
>
> > Hi Ship, have you checked out the Nokia e70? It runs the same software
> > as the e61 and has a smaller but higher resolution screen (352x416
> > pixels).
>
> Beware when comparing resolutions though. The E70, just as the E60, N80 and
> other S60 phones, has a "double resolution" screen. A common misconception
> is to assume that since it's got 4 times more pixels than previous 176x208
> models such as the N70, it's going to have a much larger (4 times larger)
> screen real estate . This is actually wrong. While it has a slighly larger
> screen real estate, most of these extra pixels are not used to display more
> information on the screen but to make fonts and icons appear smoother, less
> edgy. So everything looks beautiful but the screen is still a "small"
> screen no able to display that much more information at a time than
> previous 208x176 models.
>
> On the other side, the E61 has a "normal" resolution screen so even though
> at 320x240 it effectively has a smaller resolution than the E70, it can
> actually show a whole lot more info at a time than the E70 (but text and
> icons appear as they did on the previous models, not as nice and smooth as
> on the double resolution models). These "double resolution" screens have
> now been dropped by Nokia so for future devices it won't be as confusing.
>
> Note that this also applies to the JASJAR/MDA Pro/Whatever. Even though
> it's got a 640x480 screen, it doesn't really display more on the screen
> than a 320x240 PPC device.

Good God - the b*st*rds - I'm glad you told me that!
So does that mean that in practice that NOTHING gives you much more
than
320x240 resolution when it comes to displaying text ??

Nothing that fits into a pocket that is...!

I still think the clam-shell is the obvious way to go, design-wise.
It's such a shame the manufacturers keep getting distracted
with flip lids and gull wings etc.


Ship
Shiperton Henethe