Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >> even widescreen VGA, like the PSP?). >> >> Stroller. >> > > it will be better - of course. what' i'm baffled about is why all of a sudden > here a lot of "excellent vision gifted" people turn up, whereas in real life i > never see them... :) > >
Ok, time to clear up an obvious and totally incorrect assumption, higher resolution does not mean small fonts that are hard to read. It means that you have clearer, sharper fonts at the dpi you find comfortable reading at. In other words a VGA screen is just better, better for people with good eyesight and _much_ better for people with poor eyesight. I'd always go for a higher resolution every time. Now some of you people out there may run windows on your desktop and only being able to reasonably change dpi between two settings (maybe this is different in Vista) means that a high resolution often does mean small fonts on the screen, some can't go to 120 dpi because maybe the apps they use don't support (yes that used to be quite common). On Linux this is not a problem as dpi is entirely variable and changing it doesn't break applications. In that case the dpi is a simple personal preference and on higher res screens everything is sharper and easier to to read, reducing eye strain and so on. For a small device where we will be trying to read things that are already small due to physical screen size a high res is a must to make that as comfortable as possible. VGA will produce a much better user experience than QVGA and be a lot easier on everyone's eyes. To summarise we have 3 orthogonal concerns: 1. Screen dimensions - fixed by manufacturer, relates to device target users 2. Screen resolution - fixed by manufacturer, higher is better for all tasks that require screen reading, for movies it really doesn't matter so much 3. DPI - user specified to reach a compromise between readability and effective use of screen real estate. Any, that's my take on things, I vote VGA ;-) Jamie _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community