Motorola V710
External LCD
considering all the features the 710 has 2 offer...why would moto make the external lcd so bad?
it doesn't make sense 2 me...
it doesn't make sense 2 me...
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TheMisunderestimated1 said:
considering all the features the 710 has 2 offer...why would moto make the external lcd so bad?
it doesn't make sense 2 me...
I don't think that it's "so bad", I just think many of you expected it to be as good as the internal display, which makes zero sense to me. Plus, to make it a lot "better" or as good as the internal display would just drive up the cost.
Mike
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It's because the external LCD is smaller than the internal one and the other thing is Motorola doesn't make LCD's. Samsung and LG and Sharp are among the largest LCD manufacturers in the world. All the 23" HDTV Capable Displays like the Apple Cinema Display and the Sony are LG panels inside. All the 24" HDTV capable displays like the Samsung and the SUN Microsystems are Samsung panels inside. Sharp is still the better quality for LCD's than either Samsung or LG. Not to mention, LG/Samsung both makes other electronics on the market like Digital Cameras, MP3 Players as well as other types of consumer electronics. Motorola doesn't really make anything other than phones and semiconductors and also Cable equipment from their Broadband forme...
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Plus I'd have to think having to high resolution screens would be a huge battery drain.
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oops -- lousy typing skills this early in the morning! 🤣
I meant to say having TWO high resolution screens would be a huge battery drain.
I meant to say having TWO high resolution screens would be a huge battery drain.
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The screen is not 65k, 4k, or whatever you may believe. Hell, it ain't even 256 colors. The first VZW color phone (Z-800) was 256 colors and that looked far better than the external LCD does on the v710. Bottom line is, I'm content with 4 colors on my external display. I don't care for picture caller ID and frankly that would eat your battery up more so than what it already will. IMO.
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To me, all I need or want my external display to do is display text (time, date, caller ID, new voicemail, etc) anything else is a bonus... too much more might be a drag on battery life, or just might be annoying.
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Yep, but neither of them are consider high resolution by any measurement. They are about CGA/EGA spec and not even VGA spec.
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Yep, that too... and a lot of this stuff is marketing. Kind of like the Sprint VM4050, the phone people call a Plasma screen. QVGA is 320x240 which is totally inaccurate. While the screen looks better than other screens as it's 320x240 but even VGA is 640x480. For small screens, you usually require less pixels. That's one reason that even the 43" Plasma screen I have in the living room is 1024x768 and not 1920x1080 as it would require a bigger screen. It's similar to watching DVD's and VHS, you can't see the quality difference until the screen is larger than 19" for a TV so I guess for smaller screens, it doesn't require that many pixels. But what's weird is that all these camera's on the phones are 640x480 which is only VGA speced, ho...
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