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Originally posted by Weasel View PostExactly right. Most people don't have 20/20 vision, heck they even need glasses to see properly. I'm personally sick of the resolution obsession from a "loud minority" (probably hipster youngsters) who overdramatize its importance. Get a grip. Lower resolution also means longer battery time since less stuff to compute.
I agree though that a high resolution isn't all that worth it. I'm not sure about the 720x1440 of the Librem 5 at the 5.7" screen size ('cause that's a lower resolution on a big screen and while I remember that resolution, I never had such a big phone, so can't say anything about it!), but anything higher than 1920x1080 doesn't really make a difference anyway, so it might just be fine. But please stop with the battery life argument, 'cause that's already been beaten to dead with the BB KEY2 and its high resolution.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View PostMy new BlackBerry KEY2 has crazy long battery life, despite the high resolution. Other reviewers also reported that the battery life is crazy long. So high resolution doesn't have to mean short battery life if optimized well.
If you can add better and more efficient igpu and whatnot for a higher resolution to match the consumption of a lower one, then you can also do that on the lower resolution itself.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
My new BlackBerry KEY2 has crazy long battery life, despite the high resolution. Other reviewers also reported that the battery life is crazy long. So high resolution doesn't have to mean short battery life if optimized well.
It's only 440 ppi, compared to 550-600 ppi in similarly priced phones, and since the device has such a small screen due to the keyboard below it, the absolute pixels to drive are only about 40%-50% of the competitors.
So very simplified, the GPU has to do only half the work to drive it.
Despite the small screen, the device is quite huge, which allows them to fit a very large battery, 3500 mAh compared to for example the latest Samsung with just 3000 mAh.
So there are a lot of factors that cause it to have a long battery runtime: the large battery, combined with a by today's standards medium resolution, combined with a comparatively tiny 4,5" IPS screen that needs a much smaller backlight than competitors.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
My new BlackBerry KEY2 hardly ever heats up and has crazy long battery life, despite the high resolution. Other reviewers also reported that the battery life is crazy long. So high resolution doesn't have to mean short battery life if optimized well.
BlackBerry just like everyone else does not have these limitations.
While if I was the designer I would literally boast about making a THICC phone (like 1-1.5 cm maybe) with a ridiculously large (and thus long-lasting) battery, they might not, so they cut on what they can cut.
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Seems like I finally get to be right about where this project is going in a pessimistic way after wrongly predicting that their funding will fail, but I obviously don't feel good about it.
It's pretty clear that they won't have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) by the start of the next year and will obviously have to work off a non-mainline kernel and a whole bunch of blobs well into next year. Being as pragmatic as I am, my way of going about this would be to try to go about is to have the "Everything that can be open source - Is open source" to be the end goal that is worked towards one patch at a time, not a fundamental part of the MVP.
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Originally posted by shmerl View Post720×1440 and 5.7″
That's very upsetting. I was considering buying it, but such huge screen with such low resolution sounds like a bad idea.
If it wasn't for my job changing cell carriers, I'd still be using that 4 year old phone, because I just can't find one made anymore that prioritized usability over pointless specs. I'll definitely be picking one of these up if it has solid battery life. (Especially now that I no longer play android proprietary games.)
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Okay, so a 5.7" 720p display, I wonder how much it costs, if it costs any more than $300 I will be disappointed.
LTE bands it has are bands 2,4,5,17, so it only lacks bands 12, 13, 25, 26, 30, 41, 66, and 71, or literally the majority of all of the deployed spectrum in the United States.
I can get an unlocked LG Stylo 4, for $300 right now. It has a 1080p display, 3GB of RAM, 8-core 1.8GHz Snapdragon 450 CPU, 32GB of internal storage, and it actually has a selection of LTE bands that is fitting for 2018(or any year beyond 2015 for that matter).
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Originally posted by mzs.112000 View PostOkay, so a 5.7" 720p display, I wonder how much it costs, if it costs any more than $300 I will be disappointed.
LTE bands it has are bands 2,4,5,17, so it only lacks bands 12, 13, 25, 26, 30, 41, 66, and 71, or literally the majority of all of the deployed spectrum in the United States.
I can get an unlocked LG Stylo 4, for $300 right now. It has a 1080p display, 3GB of RAM, 8-core 1.8GHz Snapdragon 450 CPU, 32GB of internal storage, and it actually has a selection of LTE bands that is fitting for 2018(or any year beyond 2015 for that matter).
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