I find that in most situations (browsing the web, for example) the 160dpi resolution is *more* than adequate for the device size. In fact, higher density of dots tends to make web graphics appear sharper on this smaller screen. I’ve never had a time when I thought the screen looked “pixellated” and, IMHO, higher res wouldn’t equate to a better experience on this device, just shorter battery life.

Of course, the author is right: multi-touch interface (and the software designed by Apple to use it) makes this a killer device.

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Why are you so sure. Don’t you think that they already try every trick in the book to get the best possible battery life.

http://www.intomobile.com/2007/03/22/emobile-em-one-gives-japan-flat-rate-35g-data-only-handset.html

But you are right Slava, mediocre is not what we expect from Apple

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37493

Anyway, try to browse internet with QVGA (320×240) like in most current smarthones – it is terrible job, a nonsence with permanent scrolling. And just try QVGA on a regular PC and you will get sickness. QVGA has only 77K pixels, which is 3 times less than with screens of ANY cameras in the market.

So Steve Jobs’ HVGA on iPhone is mediocre resolution, it is plain minimum acceptable one, no doubts, but hopefully next versions of iPhone will improve it

At any rate, software can be easily written such that tapping an item selects it or dragging the screen with ONE finger scrolls it. A multi-touch screen is simply not required for this. I do this very procedure on my Palm PDA.

Don’t confuse the issue here. The reason that two fingers are required to scroll on a laptop’s trackpad is because one finger alone is used for positioning the pointer or curser.

This is NOT the case with a touch screen. There is no pointer other than your finger, so there is no need for using two fingers to scroll it.

It seems that everybody is touting the greatness of the iPhone when (a) they have not even used one yet and (b) many of their comments are baseless.

Zooming could very easily be done by tapping (touching) a corner for instance, on a non-multi-touch screen.

Point is, I have not yet seen a demonstration of what the iPhone is going to do with multi-touch that cannot be done just as easily with single touch. I think maybe some of you have never used a decent PDA.

As far as resolution, I think that requiring more than 320X480 pixels in that small of an area is nothing but an ego trip. Most people eyes cannot see anything tinier than that resolution at the normal distance you would hold it. A one pixel thin line at that resolution is very thin. Having full VGA (480X640) would really be a waste in that you could not benefit without a magnifying glass.

The screen resolution is a perfect example of Steve Jobs seeing through the kind of nonsense propgated by Dell and others and designing something that is actually practical without being more than is required.