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By Maxime Abbey - First published on 04-13-2014 on Arachnosoft
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The 1280x800 pixel resolution on a 8-inch screen gives a "dot-per-inch" ratio of 188. All the elements displayed on the Windows Desktop thus appear rather small: it's an equivalent of a 1920x1200 pixel resolution on a 12" screen, or 3840x2400 pixel resolution on a 24"!
Granted, if you compare this pixel density with those provided by recent smartphones, such as the HTC One (468 DPI, 1920x1080 pixel 4,7" screen) or Google/LG Nexus 5 (445 DPI, 1920x1080 pixel 4,95" screen), a 188 DPI density would appear rather weak.
But you have to think that, unlike smartphone operating systems (Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone), the Windows Classical Desktop isn't made (yet) to automatically scale the fonts of its applications according to the pixel density offered by the screen.
As a result, on the Venue 8 Pro, and any other Windows 8.1 device displaying the classical Windows desktop, there's no automatic upscaling, and each element is being rendered in its native, original size.
Which leads to some difficulties when you have to use the desktop on such a small screen, such as selecting very small elements with the finger, like the ">" icon of the Windows Explorer to expand a folder, or the arrow icon located near the taskbar's icon notification area (system tray) to unveil all hidden icons.
That said, I have to moderate these facts with the following points:
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