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Palm Ships With 12-bit Screen, Says 16-Bit On Box

Posted by timothy on from the short-memories dept.

Launch was among the many readers to point out that "Palm recently announced that they made a mistake in their product description of the m130... it doesn't have the 16-bit screen they advertised. Rather then admit the mistake, Palm is using every ounce of their spinning power to mislead its less tech-savy customers into believing that the palm m130 can display 58,621 'color combinations' rather then the 'more than 65,000 colors' it had previously stated; only a 11% difference. This tricky language is meant to shade the fact that a 12-bit screen can only display 4,096 colors... that's a 93% difference." Have they not learned from the mistakes of history? On the other hand, the screen resolution is 160x160 pixels.

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  1. That's ok... by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are plenty of geeks out there who would love to own a PDA with 4096 colors! That's the number of colors the Amiga could display. Think of the nostalgia value!

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    1. Re:That's ok... by Black+Perl · · Score: 5, Funny

      why can't Americans distinguish between THAN and THEN?

      Your sooo write. I guess its because their to busy misspelling they're other homophones.

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  2. Palm giving a refund? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, so Palm should just refund the 4 bits to everyone who bought the m130. Hell, it's only 50 cents, what's the big deal? :)

  3. that is just plain wrong by AssFace · · Score: 5, Funny

    before I was darn positive I could be playing the new Doom 3 on it and bask in the sheer beauty. Now I have so few colors that I'm not even sure it is still truly color.
    I wonder if my e-mails and phone numbers will even work with the fewer colors?
    probably not.

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