What phone do you currently own? If you have a 3GS, why not sell your old one and pay the difference.
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PICTURE: iPhone 4's Retina -VS- 3GS
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What phone do you currently own? If you have a 3GS, why not sell your old one and pay the difference.
It does look very, very impressive. I think it'll make a huge difference when reading websites.
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How is it misleading? It just shows that when you look up close to the 3GS you can see the pixels...which is not so with the iPhone 4.
No one claimed that's how the 3GS appeared in normal use. But it just goes to show how much better the iPhone 4 is than the 3GS.
Ah. Thanks for that. Apparently this picture is warping my sense of time in general.
Here take this
Credits: Mobilecrunch - I just edited so it's side by side.
Original image: http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0230.jpg
Goodness. That is beautiful.
Sorry to hear you don't qualify for the upgrade.
Haha!
The difference in the two displays reminds me of when I went from a BB Curve to the Bold and then to the 3GS. Night and freaking day.
Technically it will be 4 times better. Nobody is arguing with that. The question is whether you actually will be able to see this difference. I think we will see some difference and it might be a noticeable one but blowing up the photo image clearly exaggerates the differences.
More interesting question though is whether there will be any difference in quality between iPhone 4 screen and that of, say, Droid which also has IPS panel and much higher resolution than iPhone 3GS.
How many times do I need to repeat myself? Look at hand-ons videos on youtube, or people writing articles of there experience with the iPhone 4.
What's the consensus for people who have SEEN the device? There is a clear and amazing difference.
Case Closed.
By the way my 22" monitor has a higher resolution than that droid you speak of. The quality? That lies on the pixels per inch which iPhone 4 holds the highest in.
Apple is the leader in displays period, first with the 27" iMac and now the i4. These are the displays all others will be compared to for years. Retina display is a technological masterpeice only Apple could create. I guess it's back to the old drawing board for the rest of the industry.
Here is an untouched (except cropped for file upload size) photo of my 3GS using a macro lens. With my normal eye I could not see the pixels. They are clear with the macro lens and look just like the photo starting this thread. I'm sure the retina resolution will just make it look even better.
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"Retina display" is just a made-up term that Apple created. It's usually called "print quality" instead, but that must not have had the kick they wanted.
Hardly. There was a WinMo phone with similar print quality PPI back in 2007, and an LG phone back in 2008 with even higher PPI than the iPhone 4.
In addition, many other phones are "retinal" if held just a few more inches away from your face. (And even that's not required if your eyes aren't perfect.)
The point is, the original iPhone's resolution was very low compared to a lot of other phones. As many of us have noted here before, it was very noticeable going from a WVGA phone back to an iPhone.
Now the iPhone has finally gotten an upgrade, and it'll be great when many apps are rewritten for it with larger image files, etc. (This should also help when using iPhone apps on the iPad, which currently look quite pixelated when magnified.)
The problem with this approach (of taking pictures and scaling them up) - it's the same as if you were looking at the screen under the microscope. Just magnify iPhone 4's screen by a factor of two (as in two more) and you'll get a similar picture.
Is this a sarcasm? You do know that Apple does not design or produce LCD panels, right? The same panel that was used by Apple for 27" iMac was also used by DELL in their monitors. I am not sure that anybody will be interested in the panel used in iPhone 4 because it has weird resolution. Apple needed it for backward compatibility but nobody else does and the resolution makes little sense on its own. If anybody has an advantage in phone panel game, it's Samsung with their Super AMOLED panels. They produce both panels and phones and nobody else has access to Super AMOLED panels (at least not yet).
