We bemoan smartphone display resolution quite often here at PHONE Magazine: manufacturers keep insisting on giving us QVGA displays, when we want VGA instead.  But a lot of the time, they’re actually giving us VGA panels but forcing the resolution to be lower so as to smooth out fonts and icons.  What you need, then, is a team of industrious hackers to create custom firmware enabling true pixel mapping, and in fact that’s what you’ll soon be able to get on the ASUS P750; thanks to two coders from the Russian Asusmobile.ru forum the firmware should be out within the week.

Of course, this is only really useful if you’ve got good eyes – remember, the P750 has a 2.4-inch display, so VGA on that is going to be quite a different story from, say, VGA on a desktop monitor (or even on a UMPC).  Still, it’s good to be given the option, and hopefully manufacturers will offer that as a out-of-the-box setting rather than forcing the fan community to develop it themselves in future.

[via UberGizmo]