Future MS Smartphones will support 320x240 ?

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

According to this brighthand article:

Microsoft's operating system for smart phones will get support for QVGA (320 by 240 pixels).

If that's true, I wonder how this will affect the UI of existing applications, since Smartphone applications generally have a hard-coded UI that assumes the display is 176 by 220 pixels...

Or will this higher res be a special mode only used by some apps (e.g. video games, video players, readers, web browsers etc) ?

[Guest McHale]

hate to ask a stupid question, but will the higher screen resolution be a HW/SW upgrade or merely SW?

-Mc

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

Hardware and software. Current Smartphone hardware only supports 240x176.

[Guest midnight]

yup, its true, wm2k3 has support for higher res screens, its already been seen with the latest toshiba pocket pc which runs at 480 x 640, and i hope/presume it works similar to a pc and switches res accoriding to application, in fact, i can see that as the only way this could possibly work, otherwise it simply wouldnt be backwards compatible.

[Guest Soyale]

See http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php...=95024&start=15 for a heads up on things developers need to be aware of when thinking about updating applications to support new resolutions in the future.

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Duplicate post, please continue on this thread.

P