Windows Mobile update to add higher-resolution widescreen display support
By Will Park on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 5:58 PM PST In Announcements, Applications, Developer, Windows Mobile
Well, it’s about time. We’ve been stuck with our 320 x 240 WinMo resolutions for so long that it’s almost surprising that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has added higher-resolution widescreen support. We say almost because the bumped-up resolution support is pretty much the most logical and simplest feature update that Microsoft could have included in the new Windows Mobile 6.0 interface – so the update took us by surprise, but Windows Mobile 6.0 is overdue for this kind of update. Regardless, dynamic (resolution changes between landscape and portrait views) resolution outputs are going to support a host of display formats – from tiny displays with 240 x 240 resolutions to huge widescreens with DVD-like resolutions of 480 x 800.
Accelerometers will be used to detect portrait or landscape orientation changes, prompting automatic resolution changes (dynamic) to match the screen’s orientation (much like the iPhone). And this is just about the simplest update that’s due for the new WinMo6 – we can’t wait to see what the rest of the updated Windows Mobile 6.0 will look like!
[Via: Ubergizmo]
is Accelerometers are built in WM6 devices?
I think the accelerometer support is geared towards future WinMo devices – as is the DVD-like resolution support
o thats sucks, i hope htc touch cruise wil have it, since it is so full of features and it is all depended on the toouch screen.
As far as I know all of the listed resolutions are already supported by Windows Mobile 6.0.
E.g. Toshiba Portege G900 is running the ‘old’ Windows Mobile 6 and has a 800×480 resolution.
800×480
like my N800 or an Asus EEE
Accelerometers (iPhone, N-Series) and high resolution wide screen displays (Nokia internet tablets) eh? Yep, where others lead, Microsoft most surely follows – have Microsoft ever innovated?
Thank God for competition otherwise Microsoft would be dolling out WM on 320×240 screens for at least another 4 or 5 years if they could get away with it.