Thursday, October 21, 2004
VGA Resolution on a 2.4" Screen: Magnifying Glass Sold Separately
Posted by Pat Logsdon in "HARDWARE" @ 04:05 PM
"Samsung Electronics has developed a new graphics chip that will allow half VGA screens to produce VGA resolution. The novelty is specially aimed at future mobiles with VGA screens that will be less than 2.4 inches. It generates color using an entirely new driving method called sub-pixel unit driving methodology. Contrary to existing color display methods that express color pixel by pixel, this new method creates color at the sub-pixel level representing more than two data lines from the same pixel. By composing a new pixel with the sub-pixel on the adjacent scanning line, 480x640 (VGA) resolution can be attained from a 240x640 (half VGA) panel. The device can display up to 260K colors for TFT panels in mobile phones. Samsung Electronics plans to begin using the technology on high-end mobile phone models in the second quarter of 2005."
While this is currently for 2.4" phones, I don't think it would be much of a leap to use the same principle for PDA screens. What do you think? Would you take a smaller screen with high resolution in exchange for a smaller device or more room for extra goodies (built-in gps, hard drives, etc.)?
