Tale about the display...
In spite of the current page title, our tale won’t be only about the display, but about the mentality of Asus too. This is because news that have been treated as rumor earlier, are now confirmed: P750 has a 2.6” VGA resolution display, which is used by the OS only in QVGA mode. This is done by pixel quadrupling, so it uses the 640 x 480 pixel large display and creates 320 x 240 pieces of squares made up of 2 x 2 pixels, the colors of the pixels being the same. The resulting picture quality is catastrophic, it is much worse than a native QVGA PDA. Diagonal lines/edges are very jagged; someone with more experience spots the error immediately.
We might have lots of questions regarding the display. The first – and probably the most important – is, that why did the manufacturer put a VGA display in the device if they don’t intend to use it? It’s sure that they didn’t have a surplus, as no earlier Asus device a display with such physical parameters. The only imaginable reason is that they have originally intended them to have VGA resolution, but they changed their minds during the development process. Unfortunately it seems that the decision is final, as a representative of Asus Hungary has told us, that the company will surely not release a VGA resolution ROM for P750, and that’s it. I have received two answers for the question: why? Engineers think that this would make the device unstable and standby time would become evanescent.
Display of HTC Pharos on left, Asus P750 on right. Although the latter is physically smaller, the lines are at least as jagged as on the competitor.
To tell the truth, I have never heard anything like that; I am really amazed at how can company leaders make their workers tell things like this. First, what do they mean by “the machine becomes unstable”? Non-optimized software is unstable, so it’s clear that they should only write a good piece of software and that’s all. The second statement has a drop of truth in it, but it’s way too exaggerated: yes, using VGA resolution does increase power consumption, but not because of the display, but of the CPU. A display panel doesn’t consume less because it draws 640 x 480 pixels using pixel-quadrupling, as they are lit in the same way, it simply doesn’t matter what color they are. The CPU, however, would surely be more heavily used, as it would have to count four times as many pixels, but please: this is no reason for standby time to decrease to its half/third, as Asus says. It’s just mumbo-jumbo.
Fortunately owners are helped out by a couple of Russian software developers, who have made an unofficial ROM update, which utilizes the potential of the display. Installing this of course results in immediate loss of the warranty, so Asus doesn’t recommend anyone to do so, we don’t encourage anyone either, but those interested get additional information by clicking here. I would personally have installed the firmware, but we didn’t have the chance.
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