Friday, July 18, 2003
Not So Mellow Yellow: The iPAQ 1940 Screen
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 02:19 PM
There's been quite a bit of discussion lately about the screen on the iPAQ 1940/1945. The iPAQ 1910 had the most drop-dead gorgeous screen that I've ever seen on a Pocket PC, so like everyone else, I assumed that they'd keep the awesome screen on the new 1940/1945 series. It would appear that they did not. :| In the photo below, I've shown a close-up of the 1910 on the left, and the 1940 on the right.
The following photos were taken using a Canon G2, maximum quality, minimum image compression. The camera was mounted on a tripod, no flash was used, and for most of the images the lights were off. There was some ambient light coming from my LCD monitors not too far away. The photos were taken from a few different angles and elevations, so this should give a fair representation of what the 1940 screen really looks like from most angles.
The photos are all original, and they have not been re-touched or modified beyond changing the file name, so they're somewhat large in file size. The EXIF information should still be intact. Here are the photos: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5, Photo 6, Photo 7, Photo 8, Photo 9, Photo 10, Photo 11. The Pocket PCs used in these images are the iPAQ 1910, 1940, 22215, and 5550.
The root of the problem seems to be the inability of the 1940 to display whites. On the default home screen theme, where everything is blue and green, it's difficult to see the yellowish hue. But on anything with a white background (like Pocket Word, system settings, and many others) the yellow obvious and glaring. Hopefully this gives you curious folks enough raw data to analyze. ;-)
The following photos were taken using a Canon G2, maximum quality, minimum image compression. The camera was mounted on a tripod, no flash was used, and for most of the images the lights were off. There was some ambient light coming from my LCD monitors not too far away. The photos were taken from a few different angles and elevations, so this should give a fair representation of what the 1940 screen really looks like from most angles.
The photos are all original, and they have not been re-touched or modified beyond changing the file name, so they're somewhat large in file size. The EXIF information should still be intact. Here are the photos: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5, Photo 6, Photo 7, Photo 8, Photo 9, Photo 10, Photo 11. The Pocket PCs used in these images are the iPAQ 1910, 1940, 22215, and 5550.
The root of the problem seems to be the inability of the 1940 to display whites. On the default home screen theme, where everything is blue and green, it's difficult to see the yellowish hue. But on anything with a white background (like Pocket Word, system settings, and many others) the yellow obvious and glaring. Hopefully this gives you curious folks enough raw data to analyze. ;-)
