Tuesday, November 18, 2003
The e805's VGA Screen And Compatibility With Windows Mobile 2003
Posted by Janak Parekh in "HARDWARE" @ 12:30 PM
There's been considerable discussion about the e805's 480x640 screen, and for good reason: the ability to either view more information or the same information at a higher quality is appealing. It was therefore a bit disappointing, but not surprising, to hear that Toshiba restricted the 480x640 mode to just the ClearVue applications: presumably, they wanted to avoid support issues and wanted only official-high-resolution-supporting programs to appear when you switch resolutions.
However, the Pocket PC community has developed a solution, called ResFix, that lets you use most any application on WM2003 in 640x480. :D You can read more about that on this Brighthand thread.
James, over at BostonPocketPC, took the e805 out for a detailed spin, and also gave ResFix a close look. His experiences, plus some great screenshots, are available in this article -- he tested the hires mode with many applications, and found most of them worked:
"Most applications I've tried so far work fine in VGA with very few exceptions. A few of the applications that do run at this higher resolution do so by only using a quarter of the screen which makes for some very tiny, humorous screens. But even displaying such small screens they are still useable and legible. The display is just so nice. And the entire device is very fast due to it's fast CPU (PXA263) and the fact that Toshiba put 2 MB of video memory dedicated to the ATI graphics controller it uses."
I wish I didn't see this; now I want one! :drool: (Some full-sized screenshots, unlike the ones in the article, are available here).
However, the Pocket PC community has developed a solution, called ResFix, that lets you use most any application on WM2003 in 640x480. :D You can read more about that on this Brighthand thread.
James, over at BostonPocketPC, took the e805 out for a detailed spin, and also gave ResFix a close look. His experiences, plus some great screenshots, are available in this article -- he tested the hires mode with many applications, and found most of them worked:
"Most applications I've tried so far work fine in VGA with very few exceptions. A few of the applications that do run at this higher resolution do so by only using a quarter of the screen which makes for some very tiny, humorous screens. But even displaying such small screens they are still useable and legible. The display is just so nice. And the entire device is very fast due to it's fast CPU (PXA263) and the fact that Toshiba put 2 MB of video memory dedicated to the ATI graphics controller it uses."
I wish I didn't see this; now I want one! :drool: (Some full-sized screenshots, unlike the ones in the article, are available here).
