Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder2.hal-mli.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Smartphone Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:00:16 +0000 (GMT) Organization: timil.com Lines: 48 Message-ID: <524e7272ectim@invalid.org.uk> References: <524653714ecvjazz@waitrose.com> <4ef563c8$0$2522$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <5246b4c858cvjazz@waitrose.com> <524a53e240tim@invalid.org.uk> <4f069dbb$0$2511$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <524e51b84dtim@invalid.org.uk> <524e5dff0asee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <524e689d92tim@invalid.org.uk> <524e6ce872see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.acorn.misc:3260 In article <524e6ce872see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>, Russell Hafter News wrote: [snip] > Ah, that is what it is for! I have more or less stopped > taking photos, do not have any mp3 files (apart from any > ring tones in that format) and as for videos - having had to > go to a large digital TV years ago (we were the first in the > country to drop analogue TV) the thought of trying to watch > video on anything as small as my old TV (17" I think) is > painful. Even my current 23" (I think) monitor seems tiny > when forced to use it for BBC I-Player catch ups. The resolution of my phone is HD Ready, 720p. Because I hold it in my hand it can be apparently smaller, the same, or bigger than any screen I sit in front of in a normal way to watch TV. As a general rule, people tend to sit closer to smaller screens. This moving backwards means that the relative size of any screen we adjust to 'comfortable' by moving. Where would you choose to sit in a cinema, relative to the screen? Just sit at the front at the cinema or too close to a 55" domestic telly and see how uncomfortable may you get, and feel the desire to move further away! or sit at the back... . My phone easily has a resolution to match several screens in this house and betters some, so I only need to hold the phone close to me for exactly the same apparently-sized picture. (I can hear it then too: my main issue - the tinny speaker!) I require reading glasses, though, because of its proximity. Slightly stronger glasses, and it can be really big!!!!! The iPlayer is superb. Shame it needs WiFi though. > So any pocket device is just not going to work for me. Your arms are the length they are for a reason. You don't watch TV on a smartphone by propping it up on the desk in front of you: it's a one-person experience. You hold it as if you are reading a book. Or a Kindle. Maybe closer. Just don't go cross-eyed by holding it too close. ;-) T -- Tim Hill of timil.com . . . * supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone * has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ * accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@ ... "Thy eternal summer shall not fade" Sonnet 18