I dont care WHO generally has a policy for accepting bad pixels on new devices. I dont want them on anything! Technology seems to be evolving backwards. Am I supposed to see nothing but a black spot on certain areas when watching a movie or playing games? What the hell has the business gone towards? If it is OK accepting faulty screens because they are so common in the production-process, THEY SHOULDNT BE SOLD AT ALL!!! The ISO 13406-2 Standard that applies on TFT-products have mathematical percentages of how much is allowed to be faulty for it to pass on to vendors. To put a 320*240 TFT screens in the same league of comparison against big 15, 17 and 19 inch screens is ridiculous considering the dot-pitch and the resolutions they can show. Even if the same conclusions were to be taken towards, size and resolutions between PDA-screens and regular TFT-computer-screens, the amount of dead pixels would be 1 at the max. And even 1 dead pixel is really obvious on a PDA-screen. Ive heard that Sony has zero-tolerance towards dead pixels on certain TFT-products. This should be the standard set, otherwise as always the big corporations can get away with anything against us small consumers. Obviously, they just want to make money. At least the consumer should have the possibility to not accept the purchased faulty product and have it exchanged for a 100% perfect working product.
And, by the way, I was told that Asus did not have the general policy of industry standard, that they wanted their products to be 100%. They are not 100%, it seems. Im not suprised all the big corporations have the same industry standard, they all pat eachothers backs for max profit. The Ipaq at least can be checked in store, as Asus can only be bought online here in Sweden. Maybe a PDA is not even worth bothering with at all. In not ONLY blaming Asus, Im blaming all of them.
-Gimypchimp (Mike)
