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Stratosphere Release

kyler13 said:
It's not that trivial. Pentile doesn't have the clarity of the previous gen resolution because it's not being driven at that resolution. It still has to approximate a standard pixel configuration to a non-standard configuration. I agree the pitfalls are less apparent with higher resolution pentile, but only where the object's actual size doesn't change (ie. OS text and icons kept in scale to display size). Finer detail will still appear deficient due to the pentile matrix. And, again, macroscopic issues are resolution independent and can only be solved by changing the pentile arrangement (though new artifiacts could crop up at the expense of eliminating others). Banding, for example, won't be cured by cranking up the resolution. You'll simply get finer banding.
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In the table below, the current 960x540 Pentiles have 10% fewer subpixels than 800x480 RGB, but 1280x720 Pentiles will have 18.5% more subpixels than 960x540 RGB. So while you're right that there will still be slight banding/patchy areas and jaggy fine lines, I strongly suspect that the quality differences will be small enough that even most fussy users will prefer it (particularly RGBW) overall due to power savings.

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1280x720 RGB: 922K pixels, 2.76M subpixels (922K R + 922K G + 922K B)
1280x720 Pentile/RGBG: 922K pixels, 1.84M subpixels (461K R + 922K G + 461K B)
1280x720 Pentile/RGBW: 922K pixels, 1.84M subpixels (461K R + 461K G + 461K B + 461K W)

960x540 RGB: 518K pixels, 1.56M subpixels (518K R + 518K G + 518K B)
960x540 Pentile/RGBG: 518K pixels, 1.04M subpixels (259K R + 518K G + 259K B)
960x540 Pentile/RGBW: 518K pixels, 1.04M subpixels (259K R + 259K G + 259K B + 259K W)

800x480 RGB: 384K pixels, 1.15M subpixels (384K R + 384K G + 384K B)
800x480 Pentile/RGBG: 384K pixels, 768K subpixels (192K R + 384K G + 192K B)
800x480 Pentile/RGBW: 384K pixels, 768K subpixels (192K R + 192K G + 192K B + 192K W)
 
Okay folks, all you guys who are waiting for an LTE slider have roughly a month to go:

Radio Shack Leak Outs New Release Date for HTC Vigor (Incredible HD) and Samsung Stratosphere

Radio Shack, at least, is planning an October 20th launch of Stratosphere!

You may - MAY - want to at least LOOK at the HTC Vigor, which is about to hit on October 6th. It'll be the biggest, baddest and bestest (albeit no QWERTY slideout) phone on the market... at least until Galaxy Nexus (or whatever it's gonna be called) drops November 3rd.
 
I don't give a flying **** about a Galaxy S2 or a dual-core processor. As long as the phone has a physical QWERTY keyboard and Verizon LTE. After that, anything else it can offer is a bonus to me. Front-facing camera is a nice touch.

And by the way, that leak says it'll be released October 6, not the 20th. October 20 is the supposed release date for the Vigor. Different phone is different, and QWERTY or GTFO.
 
You're right, P. I was completely dyslexic in reading that! I rarely make mistakes :rolleyes: but when I do I own up to it.

And so it is: Strat on 10/6! All you QWERTY guys rejoice!
 
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