Does anybody know what the default background image resolution will be for the Xoom?
I had gotten the impression from the demo videos that Honeycomb didnt do the whole "pan slightly left and right when moving through the homescreens" thing, but AndroidPolice just posted a few backgrounds that were ripped out of the SDK and their resolution is 1920x1280... which Im having a hard time making sense of. Most notably, the fact that the height is off so much.
I think it's going to be 1280x800, same as the screen resolution.
Maybe the wallpapers in the SDK are covering the xtra large resolution.
And maybe the wallpapers in the final Xoom will be at 1280x800.
let me try...
when you turn the xoom into portrait mode, the height effectively becomes 1280px. So any wallpaper would have to have a height of 1280px to fit the screen.
I read that tegra 2 devices support full hdmi out...meaning if you have an hd tv hooked up to your device running at 1920x1080, the wallpaper would need a width of 1920px to fit the tv....
creating wallpapers at 1920x1280 covers all situations...
sounds good in theory...anyone have a different perspective?
Ahhh, someone else asking a similar question. Although I've posted this elsewhere, and since I'm not the thread starter, I'll post this here...
I’m about to purchase a Xoom, and simply stated, the Xoom has 5 ‘desktops’ that you can ‘pan across.’
I’ve seen a few videos of the Xoom on YouTube, where the ‘wallpaper’ shifts slightly when you pan right or left to another ‘desktop.’
I plan on using this device for a unique purpose, and when I pan right or left, I want the entire background to change.
For the sake of this post, let’s assume I want each desktop wallpaper to be a different color…red, blue, green, yellow, and orange. Further, when I pan, I don’t want to see anything but THAT one color.
So again, the distinction here is…
1) A slight shift in the ‘wallpaper’
Versus
2) a whole new image (color or otherwise) on each of the 5 ‘desktops.’
I'm looking for number 2. Is this possible?
I think the second comment was the good one, it's when the Xoom is put into portrait mode, I should have thought about that.
About the "a whole new image on each of the 5 desktops", I think we'll have to wait for a developer to make a tablet Home replacement with this option.
513 said:
I think the second comment was the good one, it's when the Xoom is put into portrait mode, I should have thought about that.
About the "a whole new image on each of the 5 desktops", I think we'll have to wait for a developer to make a tablet Home replacement with this option.
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Bummer, that seemed like a simple enough request. lol.
sadiqa122 said:
let me try...
when you turn the xoom into portrait mode, the height effectively becomes 1280px. So any wallpaper would have to have a height of 1280px to fit the screen.
I read that tegra 2 devices support full hdmi out...meaning if you have an hd tv hooked up to your device running at 1920x1080, the wallpaper would need a width of 1920px to fit the tv....
creating wallpapers at 1920x1280 covers all situations...
sounds good in theory...anyone have a different perspective?
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That makes a lot of sense. The idea of handling portrait also completely escaped me. Thanks
The only thing that still sounds fishy would be the re-scaling the UI resolution to fit the TV, rather than simply scaling to fit. I would think that would (seemingly) open the door to all sorts of shifting and alignment issues that they would have had to handle.
Hmm... well, so much for the idea of using the posted default backgrounds to identify "the" size. Downloaded a few and I'm seeing 2 at 1920x1408 and at least one at 1920x1280
Hmmm...Well if 1920 is the default height for portrait mode, and 1280 (or greater) is the width. Maybe the variation in width causes a "broader" slide when swiping left to right (so more of the image is exposed)?? So you could concievably create a wallpaper that's 1920 x 4000?
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1. how do I turn off mobile web settings? I hate the mobile view.
2. what's the screen size so I can make a picture fit the whole screen as a background image.
3. Was I smart to pay $533 for this today, with the Xoom and a Tab 2 in the works?
- personally, would install dolphin browser, under the options it lets you turn off mobile view.
- screen res = 1024x600
- that questions a bit ambiguous... for no contract, with a contract? imo, when the Xoom or Tab 2 came out, would you then wait for the next gen to come out? (just my thought... )
1) Definitely install Dolphin HD. It has all the settings for 'user-agent'. Turns the Galaxy Tab into what it should be.. totally awesome! (Cannot believe Samsung have not yet fixed their default browser.. NAUGHTY SAMSUNG! )
2) The Screen res is 1024x600 but if you have the background moving when you swipe across, which I think looks a lot nicer, you'll want a bigger image. Just Go Large!
3) When it comes to teck, there is ALWAYS a new product round the corner. Get on the train and hang on.. The Galaxy Tab 1 really is a very competent little machine once you get all the tweaking and foibles out of the way. $533, sounds like a bargain to me, and I have to say I'm a little under-whelmed about the Xoom's average screen res.. It's only marginally bigger than the Tab's (1280x800).. and I prefer the 7inch form factor. Plus the Xoom weighs a lot more than the dinky little Tab.
In general - Love My Tab!
Thanks, guys...I installed Miren and I love it. I was able to set the user agent to one that I like. It's also tabbed browsing....Sweet! I also added the launcher I have on my EVO and love it (ADW ex). I am thinking I may return this and get the Tab 2...then be happy with that. I don't think I am willing to foot the bill for a Xoom. Also, I read it's slightly bigger than the iPad.
What I like about this 7" screen is this. I have been placing it in my inside coat pocket. When I leave the house, I tether it to my EVO. When I get places...I pull it out and use it. With the iPad or Xoom, I wouldn't be able to do that...simply cause you need a case or something to hold that big boy. I think the tab is where I wanna be.
Real quick...I change my wallpaper to 1024X600 and it still only gives me the small orange box to select a section of the image. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the whole image to display.
Yep.
I use ADW too and by the looks of things it will only let you choose square areas.
Go Larger than you need and Crop! Nice big fat image.. The aspect ratio is correct so no worries.
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Go Larger than you need and Crop! Nice big fat image.. The aspect ratio is correct so no worries.
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Am I doing the crop on the Tab or crop the image in Photoshop and add to Tab? Forgive my questions, but I have tried sizing and cropping and I just can't figure it out.
Can you attach one of your images that fit so I can see the aspect ratio of it?
I've noticed Xscope is the fastest; however it has its issue. Pinch to zoom any flash screen will behave undesired result.
I had the same problem with the DroidX. I purchased dodol Wallpaper Maker from the market. It will resize any wallpaper and use the whole image when scrolling. I was frustrated by the stock software not being able to apply a wallpaper properly, but am glad I found dodol. Its actually a pretty good app and has worked great on my tab.
The orange box for selecting the wallpaper size is retarded. It never fits the whole picture, especially if the aspect ratio isn't square (and our fracking screens aren't fracking square!!) and is glitchy. I've never even tried on the tab as dodol transferred right over.
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Real quick...I change my wallpaper to 1024X600 and it still only gives me the small orange box to select a section of the image. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the whole image to display.
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Mandelbrot.Benoit said:
The orange box for selecting the wallpaper size is retarded.
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Yes, It is...It drives me nucking futz! I am going to buy that app you just mentioned to see how it works. Thanks for the info!
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Thanks, guys...I installed Miren and I love it. I was able to set the user agent to one that I like. It's also tabbed browsing....Sweet! I also added the launcher I have on my EVO and love it (ADW ex). I am thinking I may return this and get the Tab 2...then be happy with that. I don't think I am willing to foot the bill for a Xoom. Also, I read it's slightly bigger than the iPad.
What I like about this 7" screen is this. I have been placing it in my inside coat pocket. When I leave the house, I tether it to my EVO. When I get places...I pull it out and use it. With the iPad or Xoom, I wouldn't be able to do that...simply cause you need a case or something to hold that big boy. I think the tab is where I wanna be.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=950696 , a look at the GT2 ... agree with them some of the comments, why WOULD i want to "downgrade" to a 10" when the 7" fits my pockets so much better? i know the tablet market is becoming highly competitive, but as one poster (and apologies, cant find the post now) said - the IPad and the GT are tablets, and thats where the similarities end. they were built and aimed at pretty separate markets...". i agree to a large extent, and just hope that Samsung keeps this in mind (well, that hope's dashed for the GT 2 )
The image size needs to be 1200 by
1024. In addition you need to use the program gTab (search these forums) to install the image at the correct resolution and avoid the yellow box.
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So, the Streak's default LCD density is 160, but how did they arrive at that figure?
Is this setting really true to its "native resolution"? It seems like 160ppi is simulating a higher resolution screen. This is how I arrived at this conclusion:
I have an Evo and the text and icons on the Streak appear smaller than the Evo. Given that both devices have the same resolution (800x480), shouldn't the text and icons appear larger since the Streak's screen is larger?
Is it possible to find the true PPI that would yield a "1:1 pixel display"?
I set the ppi to 240 and the text and icons appear proportionally larger than on the Evo as would be expected.
So, why is the default ppi set to 160?
After digging around it looks like the native ppi is 187:
http://www.brighthand.com/default.a...ell+Streak+Google+Android+OS+ATT+Tablet+Phone
I think 200ppi might be the ideal density for this resolution and size display based on the Evo.
The Evo has a hardware ppi of 217 but its software display ppi is set to 240. So, if we apply the same rule to the Streak, then:
240 / 217 = 1.106 * 187 (hardware ppi of Streak) = 206 (software display ppi)
I noticed after doing this and comparing pixels in the icon graphics, the 200pi makes the pixels look sharper and less blurry (anti-aliased).
The reason its set to 160 is so it can utilize the screen size.
If it was set to 240 (like the evo) then it would like just a blown up version of the evo.
For example. the streak's default at 160 lists 3 or so mor apps in market then the evo. But with a simple edit of the build.prop you can set it to whatever you like. I know someone that has their streak set to 240 just because they have bad eyesight.
I personally like mine at 160 cuz i can view more stuff and really use the 5" screen. But the downside is some developers don't code their apps properly and they don't draw right for the 160dpi
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The reason its set to 160 is so it can utilize the screen size.
If it was set to 240 (like the evo) then it would like just a blown up version of the evo.
For example. the streak's default at 160 lists 3 or so mor apps in market then the evo. But with a simple edit of the build.prop you can set it to whatever you like. I know someone that has their streak set to 240 just because they have bad eyesight.
I personally like mine at 160 cuz i can view more stuff and really use the 5" screen. But the downside is some developers don't code their apps properly and they don't draw right for the 160dpi
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True! And you could do that with any display. This example is kind of a stretch but my Panasonic 720p plasma can display 1080i. I guess it does it thru interpolation and shrinks the image so the whole desktop fits. The result isn't as sharp as a true 1080p display.
By going with 160ppi, are we doing the same thing? I'm curious what resolution it "emulates" by going that low?
As a developer myself, we never had to worry about ppi because pretty everything was as 72ppi! This is an interesting new territory we're moving into with all these different display sizes and resolutions.
But, something I want to understand and figure out a "best practice" or "golden rule" for
Oh, btw, I'm not saying tha HTC's hardware ppi to software ppi ratio is the "golden rule" but they're a billion dollar company, I'm sure they spent some time figuring out why they chose that ratio. In the end it's all very subject at the moment.
Keep in mind that at least with tvs everything's pre-rendered, on a phone it'd be more like a computer game or a desktop, it knows what to strech and what not to.
Android 2.x uses 9.pngs for a lot of strechable dialog boxes so that it should look good at any resolution.
Most apps also come with icons/images in multiple sizes so that it's streching/shrinking one that's already closer to the target size instead of only a single image to all sizes.
It's like the dpi setting in windows, it just zooms everything in/out, it's independent of the resolution. (though windows isnt as good at non-default dpi's, some icons do in fact look worse at non-default dpis since virtually all installs are at it's default dpi)
I find the Dialer crashes often with dpi=200.
Would like to run it 200+ otherwise?
you can change the density to whatever you want. dell liked 160 mdpi for a tablety feel and to utilize the large screen while most manufacturers use the hdpi of 240 to keep the ui elements the same between devices. i found that the interface has to be changed alot to suit this and choosing something in between is a bad idea as you get overlapping ui elements such as buttons and text fields, and things like blurry notification icons.
i would love to go to an hdpi only..not mdpi
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i would love to go to an hdpi only..not mdpi
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all you have to do is modify your /system/build.prop then.
http://www.streaksmart.com/2010/10/how-to-change-lcd-density-on-rooted-dell-streak.html
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I find the Dialer crashes often with dpi=200.
Would like to run it 200+ otherwise?
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I'm only using this to replace my iPod touch so I don't use the dialer but everything else runs fine.
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I find the Dialer crashes often with dpi=200.
Would like to run it 200+ otherwise?
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I don't understand. Why would lcd density affect program functionality?
What is this? Windows?
I found a free file explorer that opens the file but won't save my edits. I assume I have to change the file to r/w, but I'm not sure how. Any thoughts?
I Used root explorer, change to r/w , edit .
Yes it does crash at times as the Dialer does not scale at all when you change density.
Anyone in Canada looking for a streak let me know.
Here is a good read from the android developer site about dpi's and different screen sizes etc.
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
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Here is a good read from the android developer site about dpi's and different screen sizes etc.
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html
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That is an excellent article!!!
Like the title says. Adobe is coming out with Photoshop for tabs. It won't be the same as the desktop version, but at least we'll be able to create graphics, edit photos, etc. on tabs now, import, export psd files for use on desktop version and pricing has it at only $9.99!
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-touch/features.html
This was actually an interesting news to me, there is no good picture editor available for tablets at the moment. They're all more-or-less "apply this and this filter, PERHAPS modify some parameter a little" - type apps, with no layer capabilities or anything.
As I am thinking of buying a somewhat more expensive digital camera soon this will be a great companion to take along on journeys.
Current mood: mildly excited.
Sounds interesting to tinker with, but I can not imagine doing any serious photo editing on the tablet. On the other hand, if it will open large .tiff files that would be great. QUICKPIC developers tell me android sdk does not provide a stock tiff decoder.
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This was actually an interesting news to me, there is no good picture editor available for tablets at the moment. They're all more-or-less "apply this and this filter, PERHAPS modify some parameter a little" - type apps, with no layer capabilities or anything.
As I am thinking of buying a somewhat more expensive digital camera soon this will be a great companion to take along on journeys.
Current mood: mildly excited.
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+1
I hate having to start up my laptop and/or desktop to do simple graphics creation. Hopefully this program will alleviate some of that need.
this could be best piece of software yet
Can't wait!
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As a professional photographer, this has me very excited! I already bring my tab with me on shoots to get a better look at my pictures right as I take them, so being able to make quick edits in PS would be great! I already use an editor, but nothing too exciting. I'm happy to see this!
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As a professional photographer, this has me very excited! I already bring my tab with me on shoots to get a better look at my pictures right as I take them, so being able to make quick edits in PS would be great! I already use an editor, but nothing too exciting. I'm happy to see this!
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A tablet is a lot lighter-weight option to bring along than e.g. a full laptop, and as A500 has a proper USB-port it's a great companion for a photographer, allowing the person to just plug camera in and download the pictures there.
Also, I haven't seen a single picture/photo manipulation application that is not only designed specifically for tablets, but that also can open and save .PSD, has fully-working histograms, layers and color-balance editing tools. Ie. Photoshop Touch doesn't really have competition at all here and I'm fairly certain this thing will quickly garner quite a large fanbase.
Early reviews seem certainly positive: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/hands-on-adobe-photoshop-touch-review-1031971 http://apcmag.com/photoshop-touch-finally-full-power-apps-for-tablets.htm
Personally I think I will also be getting the Ideas Touch for some vector-drawing.
WereCatf said:
A tablet is a lot lighter-weight option to bring along than e.g. a full laptop, and as A500 has a proper USB-port it's a great companion for a photographer, allowing the person to just plug camera in and download the pictures there.
Also, I haven't seen a single picture/photo manipulation application that is not only designed specifically for tablets, but that also can open and save .PSD, has fully-working histograms, layers and color-balance editing tools. Ie. Photoshop Touch doesn't really have competition at all here and I'm fairly certain this thing will quickly garner quite a large fanbase.
Early reviews seem certainly positive: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/hands-on-adobe-photoshop-touch-review-1031971 http://apcmag.com/photoshop-touch-finally-full-power-apps-for-tablets.htm
Personally I think I will also be getting the Ideas Touch for some vector-drawing.
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Good find on that article. Great read!
Wow android gets it before ipad2
IOS has to wait till early 2012
http://www.excitebuzz.com/android-tablets-have-adobe-photoshop-touch/920.html
bytemehard said:
Wow android gets it before ipad2
IOS has to wait till early 2012
http://www.excitebuzz.com/android-tablets-have-adobe-photoshop-touch/920.html
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Yes, it's funny to see that. IMHO it's because Apple took so long to adopt flash in IOS that Adobe is sticking it back to them lol
Makes sense to me anyway.
Adobe Touch Apps Suite
Just gets better.....
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/10/adobe-touch-apps-suite-and-adobe-creative-cloud/
Wow, finally a decent graphics program for tablets. Definately a must have.
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Just gets better.....
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/10/adobe-touch-apps-suite-and-adobe-creative-cloud/
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Great find! That's the sh!t!
As cool as that app would be, we would need better screen on tablets. A500 just too dull to do any sharp graphics manipulation. I tried it few time, on the tablet the color looked dull, even when i made color so sharp. Used the HDMI and hooked it up to my 55 inch screen, and it was so sharp that i had to to dull the color down.
Even if you just hook up your tablet to good TV via HDMI, you can see how better the tablet background looks compare to on Tablet screen.
I did more reading about this (previous links + Google search) and now I'm really dying to try it!! They should release a time limited free beta. C'mon Abobe! Please?
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As cool as that app would be, we would need better screen on tablets. A500 just too dull to do any sharp graphics manipulation. I tried it few time, on the tablet the color looked dull, even when i made color so sharp. Used the HDMI and hooked it up to my 55 inch screen, and it was so sharp that i had to to dull the color down.
Even if you just hook up your tablet to good TV via HDMI, you can see how better the tablet background looks compare to on Tablet screen.
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The tablet only has a 262k color screen which is obviously quite a lot less than regular displays. It is still a good approximation and atleast to my eye it is close enough; it gets the job done for a quick edit. You create a basic mock-up of what you need/want on the tablet on-the-go, then you either upload it to your creative cloud so someone you're working with can finish the thing or you yourself finish it later on when you get home.
Now, I do agree that A500's screen isn't the best one around. If you are serious about starting to do photo and picture manipulation with Photoshop Touch on-the-go, then you should get a tablet with Super Amoled+ screen for much, much better color representation and sharpness.
A500 Photo Viewing
shin lucifer said:
As cool as that app would be, we would need better screen on tablets. A500 just too dull to do any sharp graphics manipulation. I tried it few time, on the tablet the color looked dull, even when i made color so sharp. Used the HDMI and hooked it up to my 55 inch screen, and it was so sharp that i had to to dull the color down.
Even if you just hook up your tablet to good TV via HDMI, you can see how better the tablet background looks compare to on Tablet screen.
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Ive seen on XDA some people saying the A500 colors are washed out or too dull....
This baffles me. I am by no means a pro photographer. I do dabble on the side and have for many years in photography. I bought this tablet for the sole purpose of transporting my portfolio with me. I didnt go with Ipad because itunes will "optimize" your high resolution pictures during transfer to the device and that wasnt acceptable. I also use it to show clients previews of a shoot instead of lugging around my laptop. I have been using QuickPic to browse photos because i think it renders jpegs a lot sharper than the stock app or any other app in the market. PerfectViewer is a close second.....
Anyhow, one thing I make sure to do is turn up the screen brightness to 100% or close to it. Photos look sharp and the difference in color compared side by side to my gateway fx are negligible. If I have brightness on auto or a low setting it can look a little dull. Honestly thats the way it is with any monitor.
I do wish the A500 had some sort of color control setting as I find it IS a notch on the COOL side and I would like to tweak it.
Two other amateur photographers I know have now purchased an A500 and are glad they did.
Grab a 32 gig card and fill it with jpegs
Oh yea this thing I just found out will play my 360 VR panoramas .SWF format. Wonder if an Ipad will do that?
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Used the HDMI and hooked it up to my 55 inch screen, and it was so sharp that i had to to dull the color down.
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Btw, I just came to think about this: if you mean "55 inch screen" as in a TV, then I just have to ask: did you adjust TV settings for natural colours without sharpening, colour "enhance" or anything like that? Because if you didn't then that's the problem. All TVs by default have colour settings suitable for movies and live streaming, but not for most precise and natural colour.
If you want proper colour representation then you need a high-quality screen with real sRGB or Adobe RGB profiles included and no "enhancements" turned on.
Looks like its out already!!!
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I have been promising my mom that if/when high-quality-but-inexpensive tablets became available, I would get her one. So the Nexus 7 breaks onto the scene and hopes are high. Right now she has a netbook hooked up to a 19" monitor, and she does Facebook, YouTube, AllRecipes, Pinterest, Google, Skype, etc. on a daily basis. The N7 will free her to do this anywhere in the house that she wants to. Eventually, I would follow her with my own purchase of a 10" tablet e.g. Asus Transformer Infinity (more ports, higher res, etc).
Suddenly it occurred to me that there was a risk to our plans: what if the small screen size and high DPI made the N7 unusable/painful for her older eyes? Is this automatically-compensated by all these sites going into some some of minimal/high-readability 'mobile' mode? Is it easy to bump up the font size? Sure, a 7" *book* is easy for her to read -- but does this mean a 7" tablet will be as well?
Thanks for any insights you can provide!
For older folks, a 10" is generally better.
It's not just legibility, but the touch areas are smaller on a 7", which means people need to be more dextrous to touch the right spot. Older people may not have that dexterity.
A 7" is better than a 10" for its portability. If we're talking older people using a tablet at home, then that advantage is irrelevant, and a 10" is better.
It depends on the person's use. If she holds it in one hand most of the time, a 7" is better. If she uses it on a supported surface (desk, lap), a 10" is better.
A 7" is best for reading, but your listed uses don't include that.
i cannot guarantee that the Nexus 7 has it But on my Galaxy Nexus under Display there is an option to change the text size. Default is normal, large is about 2.5x the size of default.
This is system wide as well and would probably really help.
Yes, the Nexus 7 has a Font Size changer in Settings > Display
Besides scaling up the fonts, the nice thing about tablets is you can always hold them closer to your face pretty easily.
Through a bit of tweaking, I think you could change the LCD Density to make the screen, basically, smaller. So, everything would appear bigger. I used to do it with my Nook Color
All Android devices have accessibility settings for vision impaired people, so the fonts can be blown up pretty big.
settings > accessibility > extra large text
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Through a bit of tweaking, I think you could change the LCD Density to make the screen, basically, smaller. So, everything would appear bigger. I used to do it with my Nook Color
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I suspect this same procedure works, but in reverse; you would increase the DPI to make android think the screen was smaller, then it would render big fonts like with the fone.
I'll hijack this thread a bit since I'm in a similar situation. My mom lays in bed on her iPhone 4 (my hand-me-down) for hours on end and has recently started complaining that it's hurting her wrist to do so. I explained that she's not holding it correctly (ending up using her whole wrist to scroll rather than just flicking finger motions) but she can't adapt. Will a 7" tablet be enough of an upgrade for her to ditch her 10" netbook entirely? Hopefully I can teach her to hold it like you would a book, rather than crush it in her hands like she does with the iPhone.
I would think it would hurt her back and not her wrist, laying on it like that...
Try any 7" tablet with an easy return policy. Barnes and Nobel may have an easy return. If she likes the Nook size, return it and order the Nexus.
Her problems are too specific to her preferences and condition for anyone to advise you; she just has to try a small tablet.
Good luck with it - a good interface to the outside world can make a huge difference to someone stuck in a bed.
B&N has their readers on display right in the store. No need to buy and return.
Can the resolution of the screen be modified like a computer monitor? I'm wondering because we could increase battery life of the device if the GPU doesn't need to push as many pixels. I'm assuming its hard set though.
I'm no expert but I would expect the display controller is preset to only drive the display in its native resolution.
Even if you could change it I doubt it would save power. The same number of pixels would need to be sent to the display. You'd just be changing where the work was done. The display controller would have to use more power to scale the image rather than driving 1:1 to the display.
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Can the resolution of the screen be modified like a computer monitor? I'm wondering because we could increase battery life of the device if the GPU doesn't need to push as many pixels. I'm assuming its hard set though.
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Please, tell me how you can remove pixels of a computer screen.
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Please, tell me how you can remove pixels of a computer screen.
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Please do not comment if you have nothing to add to a thread. Yes an LCD screen can not change the amount of pixels it outputs, its hardware after all, but the amount of pixels being processed by the gpu can potentially be changed and then interpolated to fit the native resolution of the screen. I was just interested in what people think that have more experience then I have with the device.
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Please do not comment if you have nothing to add to a thread. Yes an LCD screen can not change the amount of pixels it outputs, its hardware after all, but the amount of pixels being processed by the gpu can potentially be changed and then interpolated to fit the native resolution of the screen. I was just interested in what people think that have more experience then I have with the device.
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I don't know if it makes a difference but you can always change the screen DPI/density.
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OP I've been wondering the exact same thing, I doubt it's possible though.
what the OP wants to do is akin to buying a Veyron then running it on one cylinder to save fuel.
beerope said:
what the OP wants to do is akin to buying a Veyron then running it on one cylinder to save fuel.
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Once again, thank you for your rude opinion that has contributed nothing. If you don't agree with what I'm asking about that is fine, just skip over the thread.
Would be interesting to see if this was possible
I looked into this quite a bit when trying to get better game performance. Changing DPI settings doesn't change the resolution. I'd really like a 1/2 res option, which would be 1280x800.... perfect for games. I couldn't find any way to do this, and I think it would need to be implemented at the kernel/graphics driver level. There was a post on the N10 gaming thread, where someone had started some sort of Google petition to implement features like this. The link from that thread had far more info than I can provide, but I got the impression that this isn't a trivial modification.
Bioorganic, can you post a link to the thread you mentioned? I plan on looking into tackling it myself if I get time, but if someone has already attempted I don't want to recreate the wheel. Thanks in advance.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765639 - [APP] LCD Density Changer - create HighRes screen effect
bayutop said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765639 - [APP] LCD Density Changer - create HighRes screen effect
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Screen DPI =/= Actual Resolution. In short, changing screen DPI is basically changing the size of text and buttons, but not the general resolution those said things run at.