> sorry for being imprecise. I was referring to the amazing resolution
> considering the size of the display. The freerunner got 300 dpi IIRC.
> For comparison, the iphone only seems to have 160.
>
> I usually demo the crispness (if you will) of my neo's screen using
> top on the terminal at the smallest readable fontsize to great effect
> :)
>
> 2008/11/21 Anton Persson :
>> You mean, the only thing that truly blows them away is the resolution
>> of the screen... Which you can have with any type of modern LCD panel,
>> can you not?
>>
>> /Anton
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Thorben Krueger
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> +1 indeed, the screen is about the only thing that truly blows
>>> people's minds away atm...
>>>
>>> 2008/11/21 Ken Young :
>>> > Denis Galvao wrote:
>>> >>>On 21/11/2008, at 13:20, Ken Young wrote:
>>> >>>> Really, we don't need a hi res screen on a day by day gadget
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I could not possibly disagree more strongly.
>>> >>
>>> >>So, give me a reason where you will need that.
>>> >
>>> > As long as we have at least a VGA resolution screen, it is
>>> > relatively easy for us to port linux desktop applications to
>>> > the Openmoko phones. Once we drop down to HVGA, or (heaven
>>> > forbid!) QVGA, there will need to be extensive UI redesign
>>> > to get most apps. from the desktop world to run on an OM phone,
>>> > especially when a soft keyboard is needed. So reducing the
>>> > resolution will greatly reduce the code base we can leverage.
>>> > In addition, I don't think you can ever had too many pixels on
>>> > a machine you intend to run a web browser on. Right now,
>>> > when I show someone my Freerunner, the only thing that impresses
>>> > them is the display. It would be a shame if OM dropped the
>>> > one part of its hardware that is actually superior to what
>>> > is found on other smartphones.
>>> >
>>> > Ken Young
>>> >
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