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Is there anything wrong with the ubiquitous ILI9488 3.5 in displays? I see some on aliexpress with resistive touch screen for below 6 dollars not including ship

Is there anything wrong with the ubiquitous ILI9488 3.5 in displays? I see some on aliexpress with resistive touch screen for below 6 dollars not including shipping. These are not integrated on a board but has 40 pin standard FPC connector, with some passives on the ribbon. (I personally prefer this over waveshare's pcbs) EDIT: 320 by 480 btw

dmitrygr 4y ago
Nothing wrong with them, but that is too many pixels for my purpose. PalmOS 5.2 needs a minimum of 64KB of storage RAM, 128K of dynamic RAM, 32K for the kernel, AND a framebuffer to run, and RP2040 has too little RAM to handle a 320x480 display.
- Narishma 4y ago
  You could use it with a 320x240 framebuffer and just scale 2x vertically when rendering.
  - dmitrygr 4y ago
    It is possible. But this screen works better and people who want to play with my project can get it easily. Even those who cannot solder.