On 03/01/2011 04:12 PM, a@aboq.org wrote:
All experts and all lay folk. In the history of humankind, there's never been a screen on a mobile device displaying 640 x 960 pixels on a 3.5-inch screen, and that quality shows -- dramatically!
The history of humankind: Fire, the wheel and the iPhone screen. Don't you realize how silly you sound? Obviously the consumer disagrees with your `experts´ and your `lay folk´ because they are buying Androids more than twice as fast as iPhones now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Operating_systems BTW the same effect can be observed in photographic gear where Nikon with lower resolution sensors is beating the hell out of former market leader Canon with typically much higher resolution sensors. http://nikonrumors.com/2010/07/08/nikon-1.aspx N.B. Resolution does not equate to image quality, except if you are Steve Jobs.
I don't read books while holding *any* device, no matter how light-weight, over my head. You're certainly depicting some weird scenarios there. :-D
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