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2.2 inch LCD Display featuring VGA Resolution

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-cel-phone-is-still-black-and-white dept.

i4u writes "Casio announces a LCD display with the world's highest resolution. The 2.2 inch LCD display features VGA resolution. The Casio innovation has 368ppi (pixels per inch). The power consumption and size is the same as with current QVGA (320x240) displays. Meaning current mobile phone models could directly be upgraded with a VGA display. So we could very soon see Mobile phones with VGA resolution on 2.2 inch displays. Samsung had the World's highest resolution with 300ppi in early August. Casio took now the lead. More details in Casio Press-Release (Japanese)."

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  1. This just sounds a bit excessive by PepsiProgrammer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just got one of the new zaurus Sl-6000 pda's that does 640x480 on a quite large (for a pda) screen and the pixels are already small enough to be indistinguisable from eachother. Putting that res in a screen that small seems pretty pointless.

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    1. Re:This just sounds a bit excessive by GlassHeart · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Putting that res in a screen that small seems pretty pointless.

      You have something against sharper text and graphics? We're talking about a 300 ppi display, which matches the resolution of first-generation laser printers. Text will be readable at as little as 6 points (nearly 25 pixels!), and a web page just might be displayed decently.

      What's the downside?

    2. Re:This just sounds a bit excessive by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 4, Insightful

      One last time you innumerate morons: resolution improved quality and does not affect size. Try printing the same page at 300, 600, and 1200dpi. Does it come out 4 times smaller on the 1200? Does it look better?

    3. Re:This just sounds a bit excessive by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I just grabbed a copy of the New York Times and there's plenty of 6pt type on it (photographers' credits and other places). At high resolution 6pt is readable.

  2. Scalable UI by TimmyDee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can see this being beneficial for pictures, video, and the like, but not UI elements. Phone OSes are going to need to build in scalable UIs and offer tools for their developers to do the same or we won't be able to use the things.

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  3. Application? by jargoone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Okay, the high pixel density is neat and all, but can anyone name an application that would need a small screen with such high resolution.

    If they "slightly" expanded it, though, you'd have a ~22 inch LCD with 6400x4800. Finally, a use for those high-end video cards with tons of memory!

    1. Re:Application? by plastik55 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      GPS + Mapping. You can never get too much detail on a map.

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  4. VGA resolution and unreadable by kbahey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    VGA resolution and unreadable to anyone above 40.

    Is it just me getting old, or are young people designing things for their age group only without considering those who are older?

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    1. Re:VGA resolution and unreadable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yes, it's you getting old. Remember how your grandpa was always complaining about something ? Now it's your turn.

    2. Re:VGA resolution and unreadable by MBCook · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Why? If you keep the font size the same, sure.

      But you just crank that up. So instead of tiny little fonts that look nice, you get normal sized (or large sized) fonts that look FANTASTIC. As size goes up (and you use appropriate graphics, or vector graphics) everything looks smooth and nice. You can't see the aliasing on curves and such.

      I mean, you don't think people who run 1600x1200 on 17" monitors use standard fonts do you? You'd never be able to see anything. My laptop has about 100 DPI (as opposed to a more normal 72 or so), so it has "larger" fonts than a normal computer. But the text on it looks VERY good. Even teeny-tiny text is ledgeable because there are enough pixles to render it well (even if you have to squit to read it ;).

      Having a higher resolution is good. It means cleaner fonts and better looking icons and such which should improve usability. If used right, this is great.

      But if you just try to put Windows 95 or something like that on default settings on that screen, usability would be a joke.

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  5. Mirrorshades by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Insightful

    VGA stereo sunglasses!

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  6. people who hate 368 ppi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First, a story: i went to the store with a woman who hates high-res displays and was telling me that no one likes them. suddenly, she pulled off the road, complaining that the setting sun was in her eyes. i didn't say anything, but her windshield was so filthy that you could hardly see out of it anyway. the low-angle sun just made it slightly more opaque.

    Next, my opinion: many of the posts in this thread seem to come from people like that---they apparently can't see shit, so they can't imagine why anyone else would. i would love to have a 2.2in vga display, not so much to run programs written for a desktop screen (doh) but more to make things look less blocky.

    Finally, my prescription: try an experiment. hold a book up next to your computer screen, a book whose typefaces don't seem too small to you. Notice that when you compare them side by side, the book is likely to have smaller type than the computer screen. Since the characters are more sharply drawn (higher resolution) you can actually see them better even if they are smaller.

  7. Re:At what point is DPI irrelevant by El · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when does the average human eye stop distinguishing them as seperate points? It is not the size, it's the angle of view. 1 DPI is just fine if you are 100 yards away! My general rule of thumb is that point of diminishing returns far a display is around 4000x4000 pixels; at that point you cannot simultaneously see the whole screen and still make out individual pixels. Anything more than that only helps if you are only focusing on a small section of the screen. Needless to say, I'm still waiting for this to become economically feasible, but I think digital cameras and displays will eventually max out at 16 Megapixels for ordinary use.

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  8. Oops! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Highest resolution? I don't think so. My coworker has an old Sun monitor which does 1024x768.

    Maybe you were referring to highest dot density, as in highest dpi?

  9. So...what your saying is it's a VGA display? by Necromancyr · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ...LCD display features VGA resolution...directly be upgraded with a VGA display....soon see Mobile phones with VGA resolution on 2.2 inch displays...

    So, what your trying to say is it's a VGA display?