Honestly, I think the Pandora has enough pixel density. It's practically impossible to see individual pixels. Given that, how useful would a higher resolution actually be?
On the other hand, maybe a fake higher-res (e.g. 1200x720, 50% bigger) might be useful, i.e. on the software level it's the higher resolution, but it actually displays at 800x480. This can be experimented with the current Pandora too. Actually, you can get a pretty good idea of how useful it would be by resizing a screenshot. This is from Windows, but this is a resized version of a crop of a screenshot that was 1200x720:
http://img580.images...32/highresu.png
I looked at that on my Pandora, and it honestly looks quite nice. Everything is still readable, and it's incredibly difficult to notice that it's scaled. The only real problem is that the text is so small, but that would be present with the resolution being actually bigger as well.
(BTW, I did this in MS Paint. I just used the "Resize" option.)
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View attachment 1596Id love to see some concepts which could actually be used.
View attachment 1596Id love to see some concepts which could actually be used.
As far as I know, both of these options ought to work on the pandora already. The first can be done using xrandr on most graphics chipsets (I'll have to try this to see if it works on the pandora), and the second is called a 'virtual' resolution and can be done on virtually (no pun intended) any X server so will definitely work. Normally you do it by specifying a virtual resolution higher than the monitors max resolution in XF86Config/xorg.confY'know... building off onpon4's comment...
I remember using older versions of SuSE that allowed a user to set a desktop resolution higher than the display could show too (I don't know if it still does), but they gave TWO ways to handle over-allocation.
The first was what onpon4 said, but the second allowed the desktop to exist partly off the screen at native resolution.
By moving the mouse to the edge of the screen, the viewable area would move with the cursor, and render that area of the desktop instead
So if I, needed a 1024X768 resolution but didn't want to scale it down for some reason, I could just pan around the over-sized desktop.
Maybe this could be looked into as well.
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A little off-topic, but maybe you are interested. The video of the spectrum mod is really cool!
XMMS on a spectrum. Wow.
http://technabob.com...nux-pc-casemod/
What about putting speakers on the front and SD slots on the sides?
Cramped? Requires Major case modification? Reduced stereo effect? I suspect the P2 will have a complete PCB redesign anyway...What about putting speakers on the front and SD slots on the sides?
But then you'd have to redesign the whole PCB?
On topic... what would be so bad about having the speakers in the hinge?