On 5/14/05, David A. Desrosiers <hacker@gnu-designs.com> wrote:
Monitors are 75-100dpi, typically.. even printed documents are much higher dpi (300dpi at the low-end). What we read on paper is significantly-higher dpi than the monitor you read that text on.
If that is the criteria, then most Palms are definately subpar; they average around 160x160 and 2"x2".. around 80 dpi. Also, the small resolution means very few characters per line. The higher-end Palms and WinCE devices have higher resolution, but rarely have larger screens. Ebook readers tend to have much larger screens. Some people have trouble with refresh rates.. anything over ~72 is good for me, but 60 hz (on a CRT) gives me a headache very quickly. Most LCDs (when not displaying grayscale) exhibit very little flicker. The eInk devices do not require refreshing the display constantly, but they are slow when updating the display. R C