From: "Geo." 

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:465072fc$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> So how many words can your cellphone display?

It's like reading
a mark brown post

Not only that
but the text is
so small and
my eyes are
getting old that
I have to squint
to read even the
simplest of pages
from our paging
system.

> The Nokia 5700 and 6120 both can display 240x320. The Nokia E61i does
> 320x240. But for another cellphone (forget the model) it displays 128x192.
> I suspect the latter is more typical.

My phone is 20 characters across by 7 lines for the usable area.

12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890
12345678901234567890

looks like that is about the limit, actually the first line is shorter
because it has the subject (re: test) as the first part of the first line.
It's stupid the way it displays messages, the top line of the screen is
like the top line of a window with a header that shows battery status and
signal strength, then the second line is like a window title and just says
"inbox" so you've already wasted 20% of the screen, then at the
bottom is another header line that says "erase reply options" so
now you've wasted more of the screen and you are left with 7 usable lines
of text as shown above.

Geo.

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