It’s just a word joke, but now that a Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox 720 is in my hands I can give a serious answer to that question: the Look rocks, definitely!
It was a while I was examining the latest VGA Pocket PC models to prepare for the next purchase and when I read about the Loox 720 and its exceptional overall features in various reviews I decided that was the one I had to get although my wallet wouldn’t have agreed as much as my will.
“What a display!” has been the recurring first exclamation when I showed it to friends during the last week, but from the best VGA LCD on the market to the loudspeaker positioned on the front side there are a lot of killer features inside this limousine among current PDAs.
I got it from Clove Technology, who on my request were kind enough to check for any dead pixels on the LCD before shipping it. The Italian version should be available in February from Trilogy, although I really hope to see more stuff and accessories for the Loox from this new Italian shop soon enough.
In fact the first thing I’m going to add is a screen protector to guard such a punch in the eyes!
Then a nice case, then who knows, surely any useful software optimized for VGA. I’ll write more about it, but the first big impression I got is that VGA is the future. I purchased my first Pocket PC to be able to increase my productivity being able to read documents away from my workstation, so now with 4x times the resolution of a QVGA Pocket PC you can imagine my joy in reading docs on the Loox!
Of course I’ve already installed the useful GAPI speed up driver hack by Picard and SE_VGA which is invaluable when using PIE to browse the Internet.
I’ve already did some experiments with the VGA Emulator in the past months, but the impact of seeing such an amount of pixels on a real 3.6-inch LCD is a completely different thing.
Yeah, I’ve no more excuses to work on a VGA version of Ecpc. Actually Ecpc, as any other software designed for a QVGA display, does look too much blocky due to pixel doubling routines. Adding detail is a lot more fun, easier and in the end rewarding than removing it to adapt the interface of Ecpc to the smaller Smartphone display, ad esempio.