The real estate crisis in this country is felt in the workplace. It’s impacting our leisure time. It’s affecting the way we look at everything. Actually … make that how we look at everything that’s in the video we watch on our smartphone screens. The 2.5 to 3.5-inch screen real estate on our iPhones, Storms, Dares and G1s is training a generation of users to consume their video on a very small scale. The picture quality may be impressive, and it can be the height of coolness and convenience to watch “The Dark Knight” on a device that wouldn’t look out of place on Batman’s utility belt.
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Small Screen Blues: Cutting Mobile Video Down to Size
Posted by: Renay San Miguel December 23, 2008 04:00 AMThe real estate crisis in this country is felt in the workplace. It’s impacting our leisure time. It’s affecting the way we look at everything. Actually … make that how we look at everything that’s in the video we watch on our smartphone screens. The 2.5 to 3.5-inch screen real estate on our iPhones, Storms, Dares and G1s is training a generation of users to consume their video on a very small scale. The picture quality may be impressive, and it can be the height of coolness and convenience to watch “The Dark Knight” on a device that wouldn’t look out of place on Batman’s utility belt.