Comments on: Samsung Smartphone to Have Poor Color Screen?
Like the just-announced HandEra 330, the SPH-I300 has a virtual graffiti area. However, the only application that can currently take advantage of the device's 160x240 resolution is its built-in phone dialer.
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CTIA
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RE: Samsung Screen
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Plenipotentiary
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Samsung Smartphone Screen
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Yes, it has a poor screen, link to picture included
Here's a picture:
http://www.snarl-up.com/samsung.jpg
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Martin Gunnarsson
RE: Thanks for the picture
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RE: Yes, it has a poor screen, link to picture included
:-)
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Martin Gunnarsson
Proliferation of screen resolutions
Palm/Handspring 160X160
SONY 320X320
Handera 320X240
Samsung 240X160
What next?
Shouldn't Palm control this so that the poor 3rd Party Developers at least know what to expect?
RE: Proliferation of screen resolutions
RE: Proliferation of screen resolutions
Even with four standards, most applications will be designed for the existing 160x160 screen. If you're using Palm OS forms for your application, these get treated like virtual coordinates, and scale well to the square portion of any screen.
Sony's 320x320 works very well, with the ability to better render features or to just double-scale everything.
Samsung's 160x240 is also fine -- it acts like 160x160 unless programs specify otherwise due to its soft graffiti area.
The Handera device is the most bothersome. While I applaud their innovation in getting a 240x320 screen to run existing Palm programs, this puts programs which are fixed at 160x160 in a bind due to rounding errors inherent in scaling each dimension by 1.5. From reading Handera's developer documentation, it looks like they've thought this out a bit, but I'm still curious to see how well it will work. I don't think this is going to be a gamer's Palm OS device.
RE: Proliferation of screen resolutions
HandEra is pretty obvious about their intent for addressing the corporate market-- a market where Palm has made much noise, but never addressed the hardware requirements which have had choices leaning to PocketPCs.
HandEra makes many advantages heretofore of the PocketPC totally moot. I think this is good for the Palm OS as a whole.
I'm Willing to Wait & See
RE: I'm Willing to Wait & See
Right direction
In addition SD/MMC would make the Samsung very appealing. This is probably probably a bit much to expect. However, if they don't do enough the first time, they may not get enough sales to encourage them to continue future development in the direction of a PalmPhone.
Hopefully they will be successful enough to upgrade to an even more feature packed PalmPhone.
Early version of the screen
SPH-I300
-integrated palm pda w/ phone
-size
-color screen
-speaker phone
-one touch vibrate
-ability to talk w/ sepakerphone while usinf palm
cons
-sounds like early color screens are bad
-needs to be tri-mode (or dual mode at minimum)
-accessories need to be available from day one (cases, batteries, etc. kyocera missed the mark with accessory items)
RE: SPH-I300
http://www.nwfusion.com/research/phones.html#samsungsph
It appears to be dual band.
---knowitall
RE: SPH-I300
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