dazz - 2005-07-11 6:49 PM
Who knows, maybe MS has something in their agreement that procludes OEMs from making a true VGA device. <shrug>
Well I can imagine the logic behind it. Standardizing the GUI helps keep all the apps compatible. If you make a "true VGA" device, and your users try to run all these QVGA apps on it, the response could be "this software looks unfinished". They'll get mad at the software makers, who in turn get mad at Microsoft for allowing this to happen.
With the current VGA setup
(and for that matter, the original Toshiba e800 setup
), all the QVGA apps look just like they do on a QVGA device. But of course, all this may be changing. The landscape option has already made a lot of things incompatible, but at least this is just an optional feature; you can always tell your users to switch back to portrait. But now here comes the iPaq 65xx, which is 240x240. I really don't know what's gonna happen to that...
There are definitely ways around the problem
(I can imagine a few
). But as I said before, it'd be tricky and risky, and so far no manufacturers can/would do it.
