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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. Re:That's ok... by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lets hope it has H.A.M. ;-)

  2. Re:Better linkage.. by stevens · · Score: 0, Redundant
    It's a shame that Slashdot linked to an article about the Jornada's problem that didn't mention HP's awesome response: Offering a full refund to anyone who bought one. ...

    From the linked HP article: "AlexanderOgilvy also confirmed that H-P would refund the full purchase price of any dissatisfied Jornada 540 series Pocket PC buyer."

  3. How strange.... by psychofox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Compaq did the exact same thing with the iPAQ when it first came out. They swore blue in the tooth (no pun intended) that it was a 16bit screen.