On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:43 AM, joem joem@martindale-electric.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
5" LCD resolution 800x480 working for EOMA. Details here http://www.gplsquared.com/eoma_boot/eoma_boot.html#eoma_with_5inch_lcd These displays are about $16 from Aliexpress: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/5inch-5-TFT-LCD-LCM-RGB-800-480-Display-TOUCH...
I still notice a problem with color - Red and Blue appear to be swapped.
: ok. the specification's going to have to change. we cannot modify :the CPU Card, so the spec has to be changed to match the card. what a :pain.
Even more pain - the $16 5" 800x480 displays have in the last 3 days ALL been cleaned out of ALL Aliexpress stores. They are now between $30 and $45 - more than the price of 7" tablets!!!. The ones that appear to cost $20 odd are the low resolution 480x272 5" that look similar and/or don't have the touch sensor fitted.
Sheesh!!
These displays are worth less than $14 from factories.
(If enough people wants to join in, we can join orders into a bulk purchase with help from my friends in CN. After bulk purchase to get good price, they can dispatch to different addresses from their warehouse.)
I am also going to switch to getting the 7" size working - a lot harder to empty the shelves of that any time soon! :) And then put some KDE plasma on it :) :)