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

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 22, 2002 @12:24AM 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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Re:Sounds to Me Like a Job for the FTC... by Jucius+Maximus · 2002-08-22 00:55 · Score: 5, Interesting

"I do believe reading a quote from Tim where he said that the FTC will not tolerate companies not living up to their promises and misrepresenting their products. I'll be very curious to learn if we get any FTC action on this."
Perhaps it is about time to file a complaint with the FTC and see what they think of Palm and this misleading advertising.