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@tezza

gday m8

soz but am i the only peep who just found tezzas comment the most unreadable piece of english - i mean i kno im no saint wit my hammering of the keys but the post just doesnt read as eng !!

wat the hell r u on bout tezza !??!

btw if were all such a joke then y u hangin round ?!!?!?

most annoying ever? peeps who slag off esato members but still stick around asking stupid questions making stupid comments and never ever using the search function!!!

shibby
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Posted: 2002-10-29 10:34:00
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Good news.....but I guess it will reach Malaysia after half a century.....
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Posted: 2002-10-29 11:28:00
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U can always have an on-line order This post was posted from a T68i
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Posted: 2002-10-29 11:40:00
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ok let me explain the screen is like an lcd on a pc screen
your pc can display 256 to 24 bit colour

if the p800 has an tft lcd like a pc does it should be able to display (in theory) 24 bit colour
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Posted: 2002-10-29 12:02:00
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i dont think it is that simple, there are other issues to it... i can;t back it up neither can i define it, but i strongly believe you cant do it, the regular monitor is stn matrix and not tft, so then according to you theory t68i could go to the 24 bit depth right? me confused...
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Posted: 2002-10-29 12:50:00
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I am also confused. I would like to know what exactly is the limitation behind our T68's from having only 256 colors? Why cant it support more? I think it makes sense that it could considering that older lap tops from 6 or 7 years ago had this screen tech and had more than 256 colors. Whats the real tech behind all this?
Someone with real tech knowledge please respond. Thanks.
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Posted: 2002-10-29 22:49:00
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Well, I think its not a software limitation, but a hardware's one. All the drawing on the screen it's done by the LCD's controller. The firmware on the MCU, which is the main CPU of the T68i, just sends commands (like draw a line or write a bitmap) to the LCD's controller. The later is responsible for refreshing the screen, and the one on T68i only supports 256 colors. So I think its impossible to get more than 256 colors without replacing hardware... the screen should be able to reproduce them, but the controller won't send the signals which are needed to do so.

At least this is how embedded system used to work...

P.S.: This is just my personal opinion, comments welcome...

[ This Message was edited by: WildNomad on 2002-10-29 22:08 ]
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Posted: 2002-10-29 23:07:00
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You can bet that if an upgrade was easy, the P800 would already be listed with a 65k colour screen (or higher!), let's face it, they've had enough time to give it a fecking holographic screen!

I think you'll find that it's hardware and not software that determines the colour depth. In particular it's the amount of video RAM (very fast memory where the 'bits' that are used to form the picture are stored). The more colours (the higher the colour 'depth') the more of this memory you need. Just the same way your PC graphics card has a fixed maximum number of colours, any other digital device will also have a finite number of colours/resolution. You could theoretically reduce the screen resolution and increase the number of colours, but I can't see this being very viable on a phone (unless it was a mode specifically for games). The actually screen probably doesn't have an upper limit (my analogue LCD panel monitor doesn't).

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Posted: 2002-10-29 23:31:00
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On 2002-10-29 01:30, Dwelling wrote:
OHM, how do you know this??? do you have a link to back up your case??
Sorry if i'm rude, but I just like to know where info. comes from


i think, i read it on esato, but don't remember the exact topic, maybe you need to make a search
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Posted: 2002-10-29 23:37:00
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Does anyone have any experience from taking pics with the P800? Is it easy to handle? I don't understand why the lens is unprotected? Has anyone tried the memory stick? Lots of questions but I am curious and waiting anxiously for the ubermodel.
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Posted: 2002-10-29 23:46:00
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