HTC bringing VGA displays to sprint: Raphael and Diamond

[blue4shizzle]

so basically its the same phone.. jus one has a keyboard and the other doesnt..

[mswlogo]

2.8" screen Yawn.

[courtlandre]

As was said previously, these devices MAY NOT have vga screens, the picture does not say. It says VGA color depth, not resolution.

From the pictures here: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/h...of-new-phones/
it looks like they are NOT vga.

[Bearxor]

Originally Posted by courtlandre

As was said previously, these devices MAY NOT have vga screens, the picture does not say. It says VGA color depth, not resolution.

From the pictures here: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/h...of-new-phones/
it looks like they are NOT vga.

This wouldn't surprise me either. I don't know why VGA devices have not found their way stateside, I can only assume the carriers feel there isn't a large enough market. Honestly, how many people are going to care about the resolution on their phones?

[armorforsleep]

Originally Posted by courtlandre

As was said previously, these devices MAY NOT have vga screens, the picture does not say. It says VGA color depth, not resolution.

From the pictures here: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/h...of-new-phones/
it looks like they are NOT vga.

That's a good eyeball courtlandre, the "main display pixels" column is "TBD", so it looks like it can go either way.

[armorforsleep]

Originally Posted by courtlandre

As was said previously, these devices MAY NOT have vga screens, the picture does not say. It says VGA color depth, not resolution.

From the pictures here: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/h...of-new-phones/
it looks like they are NOT vga.

That's a good eyeball courtlandre, the "main display pixels" column is "TBD", so it looks like it can go either way.

[bedoig]

Originally Posted by mswlogo

2.8" screen Yawn.

Right! Why make a 2.8" VGA display? I don't know why manufacturers do this. There is little point in having a VGA display, but scaling everything to the level of 240x320 so that it displays at a reasonable size on the screen. Put a 640x480 3.5" screen on the devices already! Then web browsing, e-book reading, etc wouldn't be so painful.

[aughsum]

Originally Posted by bedoig

Right! Why make a 2.8" VGA display? I don't know why manufacturers do this. There is little point in having a VGA display, but scaling everything to the level of 240x320 so that it displays at a reasonable size on the screen. Put a 640x480 3.5" screen on the devices already! Then web browsing, e-book reading, etc wouldn't be so painful.

Ramen. But then noone would buy the raphael 2.

[blue4shizzle]

honestly i dont really see the purpose in coming out with both of these devices if the ONLY difference is one has a keyboard an the other doesnt.. they both look pretty then an since both have wifi and touchflo.. it would seem more ideal to jus go ahead an get the one with the keyboard, jus in case you felt the need to use it.. does anyone know any real differences between the phones.. besides the obvious?

[PropagandaX]

I cant wait till this phone comes out!!!!!!