[conspire] (forw) ZaTab from ZaReason - a fully open Android tablet

Tony Godshall tony at of.net
Fri Apr 27 10:39:25 PDT 2012


On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Mike Higashi <mhigashi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Tony Godshall <tony at of.net> wrote:
>>
>> Very cool.  May get one even though the
>> resolution is only XGA.
>
>
> What I find interesting is that while most Android tablets
> have a 16:9 display, the ZaTab replicates the iPad's form
> factor with a 4:3 display.  I think this makes portrait mode
> much more useful.
>
> While the resolution is "only XGA", that's still 130 pixels
> per inch, so it should be quite good looking.

Yeah, that's why I'm even considering it.

I am really tired of these 72dpi screens everybody
is selling and buying- laptops, desktops,

But one of my key use cases is VNC access to
user desktops, and some have screens as big
as 2K so there'd be a lot of zooming in and out.




More information about the conspire mailing list