>> Basically, my question is this: If the technology exists to make a high
>> resolution LCD, then why is the iPhone the only device on the market to
>> do this?
>
> As usual with almost every
> product though, the technology will work its way down to the cheaper
> handsets over the next few years.

So the answer is "because it's new"?

> Do you remember when only the high-end phones had cameras in them?

Remember? I *own* one of those phones! A little Nokia 3310. (I don't 
*use* it any more, of course...)

>> My computer monitor at home is LCD, and it uses dithering to display the
>> full 2^24 colours. (Quite irritating, actually...)
>
> It's unusual to find even cheap monitors now that don't do proper 24bit.

Um... is that the way round you meant to say it?

> It used to be just because it was cheaper to only put a few thousand
> 6-bit DACs on the panel rather than 8-bit ones, but I guess the
> difference has become negligible now.

And here I was thinking it's because a liquid crystal's voltage response 
is highly non-linear and it's hard to get the really small colour 
graduations required...

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