Honey I've Shrunk VGA Screen Displays

Today, it's not uncommon for high-end Pocket PCs to run 640 x 480 pixel screens. With VGA, these PDAs can show a lot more content on their display than those running the platform's tyical QVGA (320 x 240 pixel) resolutions.

While these displays are small, they're still a rather readable 4 to 5 inches diagonally. What happens when you bring a VGA resolution to a screen decidedly smaller?

If LG Electronics has its way, we'll soon find out.

That's because the Korean manufactuer has developed 2.4-inch VGA display, half the size of types found in the Pocket PCs. The new screen contains an impressive 330 pixels-per-inch.



LG achieved this milestone trough a technique called sub-pixel rendering, which tricks the eye into thinking a single pixel's red, blue, or green sub-pixel as its own full pixel. So while the screen doesn't really contain 640 x 480 pixels, the viewer thinks it does. Most importantly, the amount of information cotained therein is the same as you would find on any other VGA display; be it 5, 17 or 20 inches.

But will most people accept or be comforatable viewing a full Web page, for example, on a tiny 2.4-inch screen? The text, the biggest question mark in our mind, is going to be extremely tiny. Get those reading glasses ready.

Reports say LG would like to ship devices with this new display technology by the end of the second - perhaps the beginning of the third - quarter.

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