I currently have a Touch Pro2 and find the screen to be just a bit too small to optimally view most ebooks/magazines. I've only had the TP2 for about 2 months... and am now looking at the HD2 because of the screen size. My question is mainly about the screen size and legibility of text without too much zooming and panning left/right when viewing ebooks/magazines. With the Touch Pro2 I find myself needing to pan back and forth and zoom a lot to be able to read text properly.
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Now that we have VGA screens, I noticed (and maybe it was doing this before) that you can zoom in all the way in "aerial" views.
Google Maps seem to have 18 layers of zoom. But the closest zoom, and I'm guessing is because of the VGA screen, still far out. I can only get in to a block radius.
MSLive search has 17 layers of zoom. Here's the weird part. Certain locations I can zoom all the way down to its lowest zoom line on the left of the screen.
But if I look at my city, I'm missing the two lowest zoom. I can only get it to about a 5 block zoom? I could go all the way to my house before.
Did both google and MS change the way you can zoom, or is this something new with VGA screens?
Also, is there a way to adjust text on the screen? Its formatted for QVGA so on a VGA screen, all the street names are micro small.
I'm guessing that you're actually getting the same zoom level as on a qvga device, but it all looks much smaller on a vga screen due to its smaller pixels.
The "zoom level" is actually about photo resolution. If you were able to get a high-resolution picture of your house on a qvga device, that same picture will look about half as big (but sharper) on a vga screen, and the vga screen will show a lot more of the surrounding scenery, so it seems like you're not "zoomed in" as far as before. But resolution-wise, you get the same level of detail.
Or, to put it the other way around: on your qvga phone, the picture of your house was displayed bigger because of the screen's bigger pixels, but it was also blockier so that the "bigger" picture didn't provide more detail.
As to the zoom levels missing in the MSLive app, that has nothing to do with your screen; it's just that MSLive doesn't have the high-detail sattelite data for your region yet.
I guessed that too, but that still doesn't explain why I can't zoom all they way like before in my town, yet I can zoom all they way elsewhere.
These two apps have always needed the ability to adjust the line thickness on maps with vga devices too. Sometimes it just gets too hard to read.
i wonder if theres a hack that someone could do...to fix the line thickness...
I currently have a TyTn. I am thinking of getting a Touch Pro but have a question.
The screen size is exactly the same: 2.8" but the resolution is 4 times as good. But how does that improve usability? (not graphics) As in, can i fit more excell columns, rows on the screen? Doesn't that mean they become too small to read? Can anyone tell me how many rows they see on their Pro in such a way that the rows are still readable.
Any applications that you would say definitely benefit (usability, not graphics) from the higher resolution.
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Michael
Remote desktop. Not sure if it even works below 640.
I've searched a lot but still haven't found any software suitable for my needs.
It should have Bookmarking ability and also should have finger scrolling. It should have reasonable amount of options (font size tweaking etc.). Night reading (Black background white font) option would be a plus.
Any recommendations? Thanks
Have you tried MobiPocket? It doesn't have finger scolling, but you can turn forward or back a page by tapping on right or left half of the screen.
I think it has every other feature your looking for, and is very easy to use, especially if used in conjunction with the desktop app.
Hmm, it is pretty good. I'm missing finger scrolling though. Also, it doesn't really adapt to the screen really well in WM6.5.x (because of the bottom bar).
Any other suggestions?
Fonts, icons, any text that appears including menus and so on?
I can't see a damn thing without my glasses and I seldom have them with me.
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George
This isn't the best answer, but if you have a HD2 you can use BSB tweaks to add pinch-to-zoom to nearly any program, and it acts more like a magnifying glass than actually zooming in.
Well, I only have a short time to try the phone before I can return it so can you please tell me where to find it and how to install it so I can try it?
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George
depends on phone.
in some wm 6.5.x roms, you can touch the left uppercorner and you can tap a loop and it zooms in.
on htc touch its onyx and on hd2 it's on artemis.
and you can google on ing changefont to change font
Moved as not software release.
Hi, first post.
Getting ready to upgrade from my current Galaxy S Captivate. Not sure that I want to wait for the Nexus Prime so I've been testing out the GS2. One difference I've noticed is how pinch to zoom and formatting is handled. I really like the way the Captivate handles it -- you pinch to zoom then not until you tap the screen does the text reformat USING the current text size you zoomed to. In the case of the GS2 -- pinch to zoom works the same way but when you tap the screen it makes the text smaller as it tries to fit more of the text to one screen.
Is this because of OS differences or am I missing a setting some where.