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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket now calm and this is a video comparison of a VGA screen with a qvga screen of the same size on two different devices on the right we have the X 800 glofish from e 10 it has vga resolution so that is 480 across and 640 down and on the left we have the glofish x 500 which has half that resolution if you do the math the X 800 has four times the amount of pixels then does the x500 now if you don't know what a pixel is pixels or the little dots that make up the picture on the screen so the more pixels you have in the same area the higher the pixel density the clear of the screen the more data you can fit on the screen without scrolling around so we're going to do a bunch of tests here to see if it's just a novelty to have a vga screen or if it actually improves usability and makes the experience better okay the first thing I want to take a look at is how the icons look so I'm going to turn on both devices close that and here we are in the program menu on the X 800 on the on the right and I'm going to go to the what miss that program menu I'm not sure if you can tell over the video but the icons are much sharper and they're actually the same if I scroll up because each and devices have the same kind of folders and file structure so if I move it closer you can kind of get a get a seat a feel for how these icons look and then the x500 they're much more grainy on the x500 than they are on the expo 800 okay let's do the same by going into the settings menu somewhere I'm sure we've all been many many times and here we are now what's interesting is the x500 screen is actually whiter they're both on max brightness right now and you would think that the better quality screen would have a more vivid white but that's not the case here so here we can see the kind of updated icons for windows mobile 6 on the on the right and some of them are similar though between 5.0 and six let's turn that back on so the icons are definitely more clear no doubt about it now let's take a look at pocket and format ate the best Pym replacement in my opinion and in the opinion of many and I'm going to okay okay here we are in the same exact view they look slightly different they're on different days let me get them on the same day so you can have a better feel for what I'm talking about here and here you can kind of get a feel for how a higher resolution screen allows more data to fit on the screen at one time so here on monday i can see all four of my appointments but on the x500 i can only see part of three so having a higher resolution screen lets you see more without having to scroll I'm going to change the view here I'm going to go to day week view it's not very telling let's go to the week view this should be good yeah same same thing applies here you can see more data on the screen on the left on the x500 you can only see about two and a half on Monday and here you can see all three on the left on the X 800 and certainly the text is is much easier to read I think on the X 800 even though it looks smaller it is smaller but it's also a lot more clear ok so now let's take a look how web pages render an Internet Explorer I'm going to bring it up in both and I'm going to go to the favorites menu I'm going to open up msn nothing too fancy whoops got the wrong page there msn here we go and it looks very similar nothing terribly different the text is a little smaller on the right you can see a little more but wait there's an option in pocket Internet Explorer on a vga device you go to view and use high resolution and watch what happens now well a completely different story everything just got super sharp and super crisp look at the difference now so here's the x500 now here's the x 800 the text is really small yes and if you have eyesight problems it will probably be hard to see but for me it looks really really good I want you to notice something I think because of the the intensity of having to use the additional resolution and makes scrolling much slower on the X 800 see that compared to the x 500 which Scrolls very smooth very smooth interesting let's go to another website now we'll stay in this high resolution mode will go to pocket now calm the mobile page and see what the difference is hopefully it will spread out across the whole screen there and it didn't let me change the view to change it to desktop see if that helps that looks better now we can see everything and there's just a ton more screen data here and again the scrolling is a little bit choppy compared to the x 500 which has smooth scrolling and another place of the bj screen really shines is with images and video especially if they're captured or recorded in a high resolution here's just a standard picture that was included on the device and we're zoomed in at the same degree and I can definitely tell that the X 800 has a lot more detail on the picture looks crisper and cleaner here than it does here I think the colors look a little better on the x 500 I think they look more natural but as we discovered earlier the x500 actually has whiter whites than the X 800 and look how smooth that Scrolls while this is choppy having to redraw the screen and finally I want to check out windows live search it's a free application very very neat application too and here's live search and go down a little bit there's live search okay it says we're in Atlanta Georgia that's okay it's the default the X 800 is taking its time loading things still not loaded there goes so the icons are bigger on the x500 they don't scale to vga resolution turn this back on on the x 800 but let's go into map let's see if there's a difference in map and yes this is the default view for the map and you get to see a lot more data on the screen here then you do on the x500 so I'm going to zoom in a little bit hint you can also meet okay and wow look how shoppy that zoom in was compared to the x 500 which actually has a slower processor but anyway i can see the names of the cities because of the the clarity of them over here on the x 800 on the x500 they're bigger but also a little bit more pix elated so let's go let's go back to another option in live search I'm going to go to movies so it's searching for showtimes and of course the x 800 is slower there it goes okay looks about the same i think we get a few more titles this ends with with with Charlie Watson's war and you can see it kind of on the bottom of the list there I'm going to click on one of these movies and it will show me a little picture pictures look about the same so no real difference here so let's go back one more time this time we'll go to traffic and as with the maps you get a zoomed out view which will let you see more data on the screen so that concludes the video comparison of a VGA screen on a windows mobile device with a Q vga screen on a windows mobile device we've learned that in some instances having a bj screen is indeed a novelty but in some cases it's very useful like an Internet Explorer browsing using a math application looking at pictures looking at video though at what cost the the X 800 has problems scrolling redrawing the screen it may be a soft floor optimization issue it may be a problem with windows mobile and a higher resolution screen there's not that many high resolution windows mobile devices out there so we will find that out in the future that's it for now