N-Gage QD

[yaris1001]

Hi, does anyone own the QD and a Nokia with 64k colour sceen? If you do, does the QD screen look like a 4k colour screen or not really? I don't even know if that makes sense. Cheers

[Ahmad007]

I think somewhere in Nokia.com, made a special page on showing the difference between a 256, 4k, and a 65k color screens. But I don't know where.

But I can confirm that there is a difference between the 2 color screens, especially the sharpness of the picture, and whether the picture is in true colors or not.

[Ruler_70]

There is definitely a huge difference between a 4k and a 65k screen. It very noticable with series 40 phones, like the screen diff btwn the 3100 and the 6600, and also there is a big diff between the original Ngage 4K screen and my 6600's 65K screen.

[Viipottaja]

But not necessarily a huge deal for video games that (most of them, especially in a mobile game) don't really need to use that many colours. I think the important thing was to reduce cost by using 4k screen.

[Dre]

The screen of the QD is 4k only, but it is reported to be brighter than the 4k screen of the N-Gage classic. Compared to the 64k screen of a N6230, I cannot see a huge difference as far as the colors are concerned, but the N6230 screen is definitely better readable in direct sunlight.

[TheZodiac]

In my opinion the screen on the QD was brighter, anyone lese think so? I really think they need to do away with the 4K screens. They are horrid.

- 32-bit
16.7+million colors plus an 8-bit (256-level) grayscale mask (True Color + Alpha Channel)
- 24-bit
16.7+million colors (True Color, SVGA)
- 16-bit
65.5 thousand colors (High Color, XGA)
- 15-bit
32.8 thousand colors
- 12-bit
4,096 colors
- 8-bit
256 colors (VGA)

[Dre]

But not necessarily a huge deal for video games that (most of them, especially in a mobile game) don't really need to use that many colours.

I completely agree. For the time being, I wouldn't want to trade in more colors for a higher price and / or shorter battery life.

[Ruler_70]

Well actually i tend to think that the colour depth of a screen will be most noticable on games.

Let me explain:

On PC's the difference between 16bit and 32bit colour is hardly noticable UNTIL you start playing computer games.

Its possible that this is the same scenario with cell games