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The resolution is only 800x480. What reference page or cheat sheet would fit on that?

hnlmorg 7y ago
You used to be able to stick a lot of text on a 320x200 display when I first got into software development. :) Jokes aside, you'd probably want that 480x800 (portrait rather than landscape). Which would be 80 columns and 100 rows in old 8-bit microcomputer terms. So it wouldn't be the more detailed of a document but it should be detailed enough for a cheat sheet or narrowly focused reference page. You probably wouldn't want much more than that anyway otherwise you risk your reference material to be too verbose for quick sanity checks.
semi-extrinsic 7y ago
Isn't that the same as the OG Kindle? If so, you can fit approx half an A4 / Letter page at adequate readability.
andai 7y ago
If you swipe two phones, you can double the resolution.
pipework 7y ago
Smalltalk's syntax[0], presumably. [0]: https://medium.com/@richardeng/syntax-on-a-post-card-cb6d85fabf88 https://medium.com/@richardeng/syntax-on-a-post-card-cb6d85f...
lukifer 7y ago
I'm always surprised that e-ink readers have such good readability at low resolutions. I think an accidental by-product of how they work is a little "fuzziness" when translating from digital data to analog atoms, so the text looks more like organic newspaper ink than a pixellated screen. Anyway, most e-readers are in the ballpark of 800x600; and I expect if the concept got traction, there's no reason it couldn't be scaled up to 8.5" x 11" at equivalent pixel densities (at the cost of hovering your phone for a few seconds longer or whatever).
- yencabulator 7y ago
  > Anyway, most e-readers are in the ballpark of 800x600 A Kindle Paperwhite is 1072x1448, 300 PPI, 16 levels of grayscale. I personally couldn't tolerate reading on a kindle until they reached 212 PPI. 800x600 may be acceptable for a simple sign, but it's not gonna wow anyone.
catalogia 7y ago
I think you must be spoiled by modern high-dpi displays if you can't see any use for 800x480 displays. When I was in school I used to put cheatsheets on my TI-83+ which had a 96×64 monochrome display!
anigbrowl 7y ago
Lots of useful things would fit on that, and resolution increases with technological refinement.

You used to be able to stick a lot of text on a 320x200 display when I first got into software development. :) Jokes aside, you'd probably want that 480x800 (portrait rather than landscape). Which would be 80 columns and 100 rows in old 8-bit microcomputer terms. So it wouldn't be the more detailed of a document but it should be detailed enough for a cheat sheet or narrowly focused reference page. You probably wouldn't want much more than that anyway otherwise you risk your reference material to be too verbose for quick sanity checks.

semi-extrinsic 7y ago

Isn't that the same as the OG Kindle? If so, you can fit approx half an A4 / Letter page at adequate readability.

andai 7y ago

If you swipe two phones, you can double the resolution.

pipework 7y ago

Smalltalk's syntax[0], presumably. [0]: https://medium.com/@richardeng/syntax-on-a-post-card-cb6d85fabf88 https://medium.com/@richardeng/syntax-on-a-post-card-cb6d85f...

lukifer 7y ago

I'm always surprised that e-ink readers have such good readability at low resolutions. I think an accidental by-product of how they work is a little "fuzziness" when translating from digital data to analog atoms, so the text looks more like organic newspaper ink than a pixellated screen. Anyway, most e-readers are in the ballpark of 800x600; and I expect if the concept got traction, there's no reason it couldn't be scaled up to 8.5" x 11" at equivalent pixel densities (at the cost of hovering your phone for a few seconds longer or whatever).

yencabulator 7y ago
> Anyway, most e-readers are in the ballpark of 800x600 A Kindle Paperwhite is 1072x1448, 300 PPI, 16 levels of grayscale. I personally couldn't tolerate reading on a kindle until they reached 212 PPI. 800x600 may be acceptable for a simple sign, but it's not gonna wow anyone.

catalogia 7y ago

I think you must be spoiled by modern high-dpi displays if you can't see any use for 800x480 displays. When I was in school I used to put cheatsheets on my TI-83+ which had a 96×64 monochrome display!

anigbrowl 7y ago

Lots of useful things would fit on that, and resolution increases with technological refinement.