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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David E. Taylor who wrote (4360)	3/21/2001 9:22:21 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 6784

Anybody seen any reviews yet? Borrowed from a post on the SNDK thread...I hope this is overly pessimistic because this is PALM's second crack at color...also because I want one but am not shelling out the bucks if the screen isn't significantly better than the one on the IIIc. Under the lights at FOSE (here in Washington, D.C.) the m505 color screen is a bit dark and colors were tough to distinguish. Also, having used an IPAQ for several months, I could immediately detect poor backlighting (or sidelighting or whatever) and the obvious presence of boxy pixels on the screen. After testing the m505, I picked up a Palm Vx and boy was the display superior in low light! Pinpoint sharp, easy to read, a bit green, but, hey, easy on the eyes altogether. Apparently one of the salesfolk had hijacked the m500, so I could not compare its screen with the Vx.

To: David E. Taylor who wrote (4360)	3/21/2001 9:35:53 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

Another screen review...note that this one does come from a place with "MS" in the name... msnbc.com Now, I feel it’s my responsibility to discuss the quality of the color screen. If you’re thinking color screen like the one on a PocketPC, Handspring Prism or even the dearly departed Palm IIIc — forget it! It’s more like the color screens on a Color Game Boy...

To: David E. Taylor who wrote (4360)	3/22/2001 10:41:42 AM
From: Daniel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

4086 colors on the iPAQ? You're right of course, should be 4096 colors, and I know better. Typo by me? Nope, copied from Compaq's website without thinking Actually, I just meant to point out the mismatch between 8 bits and 4096. (4096 values cannot be encoded in 8 bits. If it's 4096 values, it's (at least) 12 bits; if it's 8 bits, it's (at most) 256 values.) ... I'll confess I'm not sure why Compaq is using an 8 bit/4096 color screen, when they have the horsepower and OS to drive 16 bit/65,536 colors, unless they opted to use that horsepower to drive the higher 240x320 resolution. Processing horsepower to deliver enough data for that number of colors isn't the only thing needed. You also need sufficient display hardware (electronics and LCD). Maybe they chose cheaper LCD driver circuits (three 4-bit digital-to-analog converters instead of two 5-bit and one 6-bit DACs). Or maybe they're admitting that their LCD can't really produce more than 16 levels of each color (16 x 16 x 16 = 4096). Daniel