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Tablet screens: Playbook vs Galaxy Tab vs iPad

This is just a bit of technical numbers trivia.
I made these calculations to have a reference for comparing things.

Platform

BlackBerry
Playbook

Samsung
Galaxy Tab
Apple
iPad
Resolution
(pixels)
1024 x 600
1024 x 600
1024 x 768
Diagonal size
(pixels)
1186 diag
1186 diag
1280 diag
Diagonal size
(inches)
7"
7"
9.7"

pixels-per-inch
(dots per inch)

169 ppi/dpi
169 ppi/dpi
132ppi/dpi
App icon width (pixels)
90px
(90 x 90)
72px
(72 x 72)
72px
(72 x 72)
(divided by ppi)
169 ppi
169 ppi
132 ppi
App icon width
(inches)
0.53"
0.43"
0.55"
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Mobile web problem on the Blackberry Torch/Tour/Style

One of the benefits of having smartphone is surfing the internet with a high-quality web browser while you’re driving down a high-speed highway.  Then, often if you’re looking for information on a destination, anything from a restaurant or hospital or mechanic or astrophysicist, you’ll discover a phone number.

And magically, any android phone or apple iphone, will see the phone numbers and make them clickable.  Even the Opera browser I have on the iPhone 4 does this.

But NOT the built-in browser in the OS 6 phones from RIM.. the Blackberry Torch, Blackberry Style and Blackberry Tour.

Unfortunately, there is no solution for that personlooking up a contact phone number on their Blackberry phone. HOWEVER, that does not mean it is impossible.  The solution rests completely on the shoulders of the creator of the web page.
For a web designer/developer, instead of putting a line of text within HTML in your page like

Call me!  1-800-123-4567

simply change the HTML code to

Call me! <a href=”tel:1-800-123-4567″>1-800-123-4567</a>

I’ve downloaded all the emulators for these devices, to verify the solution.  Yep, works. Very, very simple.

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