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Sorry, you are NOT tech savvy if you don't know the pixel count of the phone you own.

Edit: i meant the camera mpx and not screen resolution. If you dont know tha your 8mpx camera phone has 8mpx camera, you are NOT tech savvy.

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I write iOS apps for a living and found myself looking up the resolution of an iPhone yesterday - this is not something you know by heart. The raw pixel count is simply not relevant except for a small number of cases.

If you design for them it is, although I can't say the knowledge means you are or aren't a technical person in any way.

Rubbish. I'm by pretty much any measure tech savvy, and I simply don't care about what the pixel count of my phone is. Is it enough? Then job done. I'll spend my time caring about stuff that makes a difference to me.

I don't think most consumers know how much MPs are in the camera, nor have any idea what the number means in terms of picture quality. Hence this: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm

Most costumers don't yes. But tech savvy ones do.

A tech-savvy person probably knows that raw megapixel numbers are meaningless. A non-tech-savvy person probably got the number from the guy at Best Buy trying to make his commission.

I'm tech-savvy. I honestly couldn't tell you how many MP the camera in my iPhone has.

My dad, mom and sis know what Mpx camera they have on their phones. And my mom and dad are no way close to being tech savvy. What the number means is a whole different question. But if you don't know that in your phone, you cannot begin to say that you are tech savvy.

So someone who's playing with node.js, EC2, Arduinos, etc. isn't tech savvy because they didn't read their phone's spec sheet when they bought it?

That's complete and utter bullshit.

I work on a smartphone OS for a living (Boot2Gecko) and yet, I have no idea what the pixel count on my Galaxy Nexus (my personal phone) is, or that of the last two phones I owned (Samsung Focus and HTC HD7). It's not something I care to know about my phone; all I care about is that it looks sharp.

My comment was not clear on what I meant by pixel count, but if you had read the parent, you would know that I was talking about the camera Mpx count and not screen resolution. I don't know the latter exactly either.

Can't say that I know the MP count on any of my current/past phones either, despite using the cameras quite frequently. Again, it's just not something that matters to me -- if I care about super high quality, I use my DSLR. Saying that you're not "tech savvy" if you don't know these things is just downright pretentious.

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