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Originally Posted by ProDigit
Ofcourse we all want a bigger screen or higher resolution. so appart from that.
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Wow, I can't believe the number of people who don't care about higher resolution...
My number one complaint is the screen. The Reader has many tradeoffs (like slow refresh time, screen inversion on page flip, ghosting, inverted "edges" around shapes etc) to support the e-ink screen compared to greyscale LCD, but advantages they gained from making those tradeoffs aren't enough yet.
If they quadrupled the resolution (ie: 1600x1200) it would then really approximate paper print. As it is today, its still too easy to make out the individual pixels on the display, and "stuck" pixels are large enough to be easily visible.
Increased resolution would also allow the fonts to be rendered more beautifully. On today's screen, its difficult to use font sizes smaller than 9pt because there aren't enough pixels available to draw the glyphs attractively.
Having higher pixel density would also allow better looking pictures, even if they can't raise the number of grey levels.
Now of course, this is only if they can hold everything else constant or better (eg need faster processors to process/render more pixels, which needs more battery; and more switching for screen, which needs more battery; more memory to hold framebuffer, which needs more battery)