"Even looking at applications and uses that can arguably use a greater resolution, things are not clearcut. Web is a good example. With four times as many pixels, a far higher fraction of a typical web layout can be rendered in one go – it'll look gorgeous but you can't easily read most of the information on it. So you end up using the zoom function – which, in S60 Web only goes to 125%, not enough to make the text size comfortable and ruining the experience. Even on the Nokia E90's huge 800 pixel wide screen, where you'd expect Web to be far superior, I was forever running into sites and layouts whose apparently miniscule text was very frustrating to read."
More E71 ruminations - the argument for QVGA and why Nokia got this one dead right
Published by Steve Litchfield at
With the release of the 2.4"-screened, QVGA E71, some naive bloggers were shouting down Nokia for not putting in a VGA display. Here's why the bloggers got this one wrong - in my humble opinion, of course! Comments welcome. And at what point in the future do you think VGA will become practical and affordable in 'phones'?