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Re:The Neo900 project is still alive and steadily progressing by hengheng on Saturday March 15, 2014 @09:51AM (#7404630)
In my experience, the critical threshold for a display to become useable for a general purpose has been one megapixel.

Office displays progressed from 1024x768 to 1280x1024, and in most cases did not need to go further to 1600x1200. My laptop is useable at 1366x768, whereas lower resolutions aren't. And my phone is about right at 1280x720, whereas I could neither type nor browse the web on 800x480.

I'm sad to say it, but I'll be waiting for the second generation.

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Re:The Neo900 project is still alive and steadily progressing by esbranson on Sunday March 16, 2014 @08:12PM (#7412074)
A "second generation"? The Neo900 is essentially the 4th or 5th generation of the N770 (c. 1995?). Not much has, or likely will be, changed since then, dimensionally.

Its not a phone that's best for web browsing. Its a phone that is capable of doing everything else using what's known as a "terminal emulator", something likely unavailable on your phone you're going to buy instead. At least not a stock one supporting a Bourne Shell (c. 1970s?) using Debian-based Linux standard utilities (c. 1990s?).

Because if you care more about a (slightly less small) small screen than everything else the Neo900 offers, you're going to be waiting a long time.

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Re:The Neo900 project is still alive and steadily progressing by protomyth on Saturday March 15, 2014 @11:17AM (#7404831)
and here I was happy and amazed when I got a 640 x 480 display
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Re:The Neo900 project is still alive and steadily progressing by vanderZwan on Saturday March 15, 2014 @11:53AM (#7404949)
Well, going from 320x240 to 640x320 is a huge leap. After that you start to hit diminishing returns, I guess.
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