Palm Ships With 12-bit Screen, Says 16-Bit On Box 326
Launch was among the many readers to point out that "Palm recently announced that they made a mistake in their product description of the m130... it doesn't have the 16-bit screen they advertised. Rather then admit the mistake, Palm is using every ounce of their spinning power to mislead its less tech-savy customers into believing that the palm m130 can display 58,621 'color combinations' rather then the 'more than 65,000 colors' it had previously stated; only a 11% difference. This tricky language is meant to shade the fact that a 12-bit screen can only display 4,096 colors... that's a 93% difference." Have they not learned from the mistakes of history? On the other hand, the screen resolution is 160x160 pixels.
That's ok... (Score:5, Funny)
woho! (Score:0, Funny)
Bah. (Score:2, Funny)
Palm giving a refund? (Score:5, Funny)
reminds me of... (Score:4, Funny)
I went to the 24 hour store and the clerk was closing up.
"I thought you were open 24 hours."
"Not in a row."
Re:REFUND!! REFUND!! (Score:1, Funny)
if they plan on using palms to view their finances (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's ok... (Score:3, Funny)
that is just plain wrong (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if my e-mails and phone numbers will even work with the fewer colors?
probably not.
Re:What does 58621 represent? (Score:4, Funny)
Close your eyes and hit your numeric keypad 5 times. You might be close then..
Re:12 bit? (Score:4, Funny)
Upgrade your old Palm to 65,536 colors!!! (Score:4, Funny)
* No claim of uniqueness for each color is expressed or implied
** If Gray isn't a color, what is it?
Re:That's ok... (Score:5, Funny)
Your sooo write. I guess its because their to busy misspelling they're other homophones.
Re:12 bit? (Score:4, Funny)
So if I have a 2-pixel by 2-pixel screen whose pixels display either black (on) or white (off), I can claim my screen supports 5 color combinations:
It *is* 16 bits! (Score:1, Funny)
And if you think that's good, just wait until next year: the current 4 bits of optimization will be extended to a whopping 12 bits, resulting in the new PalmOS 24-bit colour display.
Re:12 bit? (Score:2, Funny)
Where I come from, a similar effect is achieved with generous application of alcohol.
My people call the technique "Beer Goggles".
Obligatory Simpsons Reference (Score:3, Funny)