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Motorola 'Droid X' to Challenge iPhone 4's Retina Display? [Updated]
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Better than the ear-deafening "hum" of A LOT of vuvuzela's
LOL please tell me you heard the vuvuzela song.
Not really. 1024x768 is 720p with non-square pixels, and visually indistinguishable in almost all cases from 1366x768 with square pixels. Display manufacturers have been doing this for close to a decade without being called on it, because there's nothing to call.
720p requires 720 lines of resolution in a widescreen physical format.
720x480 would be 480i/p.
Because television monitors are traditionally rated in lines of resolution.
Yes, but a portrait orientation isn't 720p, since the requirements are 720 vertical lines in a 16:9 format.
toooooold ya.
Sad thing is I know the folks who submitted it and approved it...
Must not of had their daily allotment of caffeine today!
Well, considering that what you're talking about doesn't yet exist, we don't have much choice to use cables, do we?
And even 960x720 is higher than the new iPhone and would be extremely impressive. But there's no way anyone would consider 720x480 to be 720p. It's possible it's a lower resolution, but in that case likely that they'll say the 720p is talking about the hdmi output.
...which still doesn't confirm anything. Could be a mistake/mislead on the droid website, could be that the prototype is different than the final version.
What part of "apparently" don't you understand? WE STILL DON'T KNOW.
Except that for watching video, you turn it sideways. There's no way they're going to call 720x480 or something 720p, if it's a lower resolution they'll clarify that 720p is talking about video out.
Wait. Are you talking about Android or iOS ? It's hard to tell.
There are millions of iPhones and iPod touches runniing older OS versions... and either unable to update to the latest version or use all its features.
There are also millions of iOS devices with fragmented hardware specs. Most have GPS, some not. Some have a compass, some not. Three different screen resolutions now, too.
All-but officially taken back now:
http://phones.verizonwireless.com/droid/x/
No longer says 720p screen.
in a pigs mouth before the BBQ, but it's still a pig
no name calling - btw i was typing from my iphone - so my mistake for not checking my sentence structure on such a small screen
BTW - you are mistaken - Engadget is the furthest thing from an anti apple site. And you stating such really makes your rant hardly legitimate.
YOU ARE THE FANBOY - and a troll at that.
I know a 550 mb divx compressed video 720p looks pretty good on my 50" Panny Plasma
SO no i would still love video out on my iphone.
Tell you what - when the iphone 4GS has video out i'm going to stuff your fanboy reply down your throat and hope you choke on it.
You will - in fact all of you will love video out on your iphone.
This i command.
Motorola have great products....
... Well if you do not read between the lines..
From ENGADGET:
Update: We just confirmed that the Droid X prototype we saw had an 854 x 480 display, so we'll have to see if Motorola and Verizon have a serious surprise for us come Wednesday -- we know at least one Engadget editor who's crossing his fingers.
Update 2: Sure enough, Verizon has changed the ad to read "Captures 720p" instead of "720p screen," so that would basically confirm the 854 x 480 display. A nerd can dream, though! See the revised site after the break.
While I cannot judge on the Android system and such, my experience with the Iphone has been great (and with rare dropped calls from ATT.) I am an Apple fan because of the experience i am enjoying on everything they do... From hardware to software to customer support and experience in the stores... For me, when I buy Apple, I have the security that things have been well thought of... And this has no price...
The App store is great, the apps are a plenty to choose from, Itunes has whatever I need, I will not seek something different unless something monumental happens to Apple Quality of products...
I look at the Android fans as people who have not been able to get what they needed from Microsoft (i bet that if MS has a viable solution for a phone OS they would be on Windows phone, always trying to find a way to 'Tweak' the system, a way to put add-ons to modify the system behavior...) Maybe I am wrong, maybe i am right...
A phone is a phone: no need for it to have a 10 Mega pixels camera, OS level tweaks... Make calls, receive emails, text, play games, have apps to manage my bills, my contacts... I am convinced that pretty soon, Droid Ads will say "... Can make the coffee too!"
'nuff said!
... Well if you do not read between the lines..
From ENGADGET:
Update: We just confirmed that the Droid X prototype we saw had an 854 x 480 display, so we'll have to see if Motorola and Verizon have a serious surprise for us come Wednesday -- we know at least one Engadget editor who's crossing his fingers.
Update 2: Sure enough, Verizon has changed the ad to read "Captures 720p" instead of "720p screen," so that would basically confirm the 854 x 480 display. A nerd can dream, though! See the revised site after the break.
While I cannot judge on the Android system and such, my experience with the Iphone has been great (and with rare dropped calls from ATT.) I am an Apple fan because of the experience i am enjoying on everything they do... From hardware to software to customer support and experience in the stores... For me, when I buy Apple, I have the security that things have been well thought of... And this has no price...
The App store is great, the apps are a plenty to choose from, Itunes has whatever I need, I will not seek something different unless something monumental happens to Apple Quality of products...
I look at the Android fans as people who have not been able to get what they needed from Microsoft (i bet that if MS has a viable solution for a phone OS they would be on Windows phone, always trying to find a way to 'Tweak' the system, a way to put add-ons to modify the system behavior...) Maybe I am wrong, maybe i am right...
A phone is a phone: no need for it to have a 10 Mega pixels camera, OS level tweaks... Make calls, receive emails, text, play games, have apps to manage my bills, my contacts... I am convinced that pretty soon, Droid Ads will say "... Can make the coffee too!"
'nuff said!
Which raises the question of how someone managed to get "capture" and "screen" mixed up and get the copy approved for publication because I'm sure this would never have been done on purpose
I think you've been at the wrong forum. They were called on it quite a bit, techie HT people were shunning early 42" plasmas because of this. That was before the tech was advanced enough to make plasma cells small enough to fit HD rez in 42". Now we even have true 1920x1080 in 42".
Interestingly, this did change with the advent of HDTV. If you go back to SD years, you see marketing of "700 lines" in high-end TVs, which was actually a reference to counting horizontally, getting close to the true 720x480 of NTSC/SDTV. It fooled people all the time, we must have some in-born assumption that it means vertical counting, because most people seem to assume it does.
re: droid
You know, all the resolution BS aside, (no way in hell its really 720p), I think these guys are really grasping at straws here to out do the iPhone. Between the Evo @ 4.3" and the Droid @ 4.4"...... OMFG those things are massive! I consider the iPhone to be right at the limit sizewise as to what can be comfortably carried in my pocket, and also not look like I'm really happy to see someone. I can't imagine what it would be like to ram the Evo or Droid X into my pocket. Aside from being uncomfortable, ppl are going to look like dorks.
You know, all the resolution BS aside, (no way in hell its really 720p), I think these guys are really grasping at straws here to out do the iPhone. Between the Evo @ 4.3" and the Droid @ 4.4"...... OMFG those things are massive! I consider the iPhone to be right at the limit sizewise as to what can be comfortably carried in my pocket, and also not look like I'm really happy to see someone. I can't imagine what it would be like to ram the Evo or Droid X into my pocket. Aside from being uncomfortable, ppl are going to look like dorks.
There you go, turns out it was just a mistake. The notion that they would actually release a lower resolution but call it 720p was pretty ridiculous.
Like I said, that specific format fudges it. But in this case, some were insisting they would call 720x480 720p, which they would absolutely get hammered for. Turns out it was just a mistake on the part of the web developer.
My point exactly.
Don't wanna tell you guys that I told you so, but........
You said that they would try and get away with calling a lower resolution 720p. Considering they changed their site, sure doesn't look like it - it was just a mistake.
no name calling - btw i was typing from my iphone - so my mistake for not checking my sentence structure on such a small screen
BTW - you are mistaken - Engadget is the furthest thing from an anti apple site. And you stating such really makes your rant hardly legitimate.
YOU ARE THE FANBOY - and a troll at that.
I know a 550 mb divx compressed video 720p looks pretty good on my 50" Panny Plasma
SO no i would still love video out on my iphone.
Tell you what - when the iphone 4GS has video out i'm going to stuff your fanboy reply down your throat and hope you choke on it.
You will - in fact all of you will love video out on your iphone.
This i command.
you lose dude, LOL.
I have good hope in Facetime in the new iphone. A slightly bigger screen and 720p on a phone don't attract me a lot. I think a fluent OS and great capability is much more important. It will be interesting to see how good Droid can be. But HDMI output...???? Better off.
will you d*cks please stop beatching about the wifi-only facetime??? it will obviously come to cellular networks when they manage the throughput so it doesn't bog the whole pipeline down -- if you had 10 million iphones facetiming and the whole att network slowed to a crawl you'd be nonstop beatching about that too.
i'm so glad apple takes its time in delivering features, like multitasking, cut/paste, etc etc, tethering, all the things you boys kvetch about morning to night... because when they do deliver products they work, and work well, not just a bunch of specs that have no real world traction. apple takes great pride in fully testing and developing features before throwing it out the door... unlike many other companies we could name. so, i for one am happy to wait for things because i know when i get it, it will work.
Great to see competition. Great hardware specs. But I have to agree with the many who have pointed out that... this thing is butt ugly. The add itself is hideous too. I get the look they're trying to achieve, but it could have been done way better.
Didn't you get the memo? People here are never satisfied. Apple could make an iPhone that prints $20 bills and people would complain that it doesn't print them fast enough.
Plus most of the people who want Nexus One can't get their mom to buy them one, as reflected in the low sales of Nexus One.
LOL Good one.
Why won't it produce pennies? It's completely useless without it! =p