Sharp and Vodaphone show off VGA cellies at 3GSM

by Evan Blass posted Feb 14th 2006 at 10:05AM

More 3GSM madness: Sharp and Vodaphone have teamed up to show off several cellphones that sport VGA screens- four times the resolution of the QVGA screens found in most Japanese handsets. It's unclear, however, whether these screens are true VGA or, like the display shown by LG at CES, they achieve VGA resolution through sub-pixel rendering. Not that it really matters- if it walks like a VGA screen and talks like a VGA screen, well, that's good enough for us.

Filed under: Handsets, Sharp, Vodafone

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Joe @ Feb 14th 2006 10:41AM

why can't i still enter the phone giveaway contest? doesn't seem to be taking any more posts.

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Fernando @ Feb 14th 2006 11:28AM

When are those OLED screens coming to Cellphones....I'm tired of them being put as an external one>>>>>

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Jerome @ Feb 14th 2006 11:33AM

Those screens are sweet! Too bad we wont get that an the states anytime soon. Unless I win it from engadget that is.

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SAK @ Feb 14th 2006 11:45AM

Doesn't having a VGA screen on cell phone make the text very small when running most applications? So much data in such a small screen. I presume these screen are much smaller than those found on PocketPC PDA otherwise you have got a very large cell.

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haythem @ Feb 14th 2006 12:46PM

OMG....My Dreams come true

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John @ Feb 14th 2006 2:11PM

If anyone can pull off a VGA screen in a tiny space it's Sharp. Remember, they were the first to make a VGA screen for a PDA. Zaurus C700 anyone? And as for the font size: I imagine that most applications will have some awareness of the current DPI they're being run and thus will scale fonts accordingly.

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Ben G @ Feb 14th 2006 4:00PM

I playing with one of these Sharp VGA screened phones and the screen is real VGA and the fonts look absolutely excellent. Of course, you can get really tiny fonts that you cannot read but the typical fonts they use are "normal sized" and just look extra rounded and smooth - no anti-aliasing required. IMO the screen really comes into itself when viewing maps like the piccy shows and then it's just amazing. Tie it in with GPS and vecotr graphics zoom and it is sur-weet.

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Pogube @ Jul 5th 2006 6:49AM

Wow :))? it's cool

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