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iPhone XR About iPhone XR not having a 1080p display…
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I saw an XR yesterday, screen looked good for the most part. I don't think the difference from the XR to XS should make a difference for a lot of people.
I went to the Apple Store yesterday and compared my Xs Max to the Xr. I honestly couldn't see much if any difference. Just surfing of course. My wife on the other hand did see a difference. Maybe my old eyes can't differentiate. Anyways really liked the Xr but still would have gone with my Max.
The thing that bothers most Apple tech fans is that if you would ask them what would a Steve Jobs run Apple have done?
1) Design a new screen to match the XR's dimension like the Plus model
2) Just blow up the smaller model's display to match the dimension and call it a day.
I can tell you which option Tim Cook and the gang choose.
Saying, I can't tell the difference, isn't really the point to me.
1) Design a new screen to match the XR's dimension like the Plus model
2) Just blow up the smaller model's display to match the dimension and call it a day.
I can tell you which option Tim Cook and the gang choose.
Saying, I can't tell the difference, isn't really the point to me.
Bingo.
As I’ve said repeatedly previously (months ago in fact), video will look fine. The pixel density will be a total non-issue in this context. The issue is specifically small text quality.
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That’s exactly bass ackwards.
My 4K OLED TV is 68 ppi.
The bigger a display is the lower the ppi needs to be because you sit further away from it when viewing it. I’d imagine you sit quite far away from your TV.
I don’t see blurry text on my XR. Side by side with a XS Max at Apple store it was difficult for me to see the difference in screens. The oled blacks were a little darker and had slightly more depth to video but, not a huge difference.
It’s not 1080p but it also doesn’t have crazy flicker like OLED
And hopefully the excellent battery life’s partially attributable to the “low res” 868p
And hopefully the excellent battery life’s partially attributable to the “low res” 868p
That comparison will be useless too. He's doing the wrong comparison, unless you never use your phone to read text.
(This post isn't responding to the most immediate posts above but to posts I've seen in bunches of threads over the past several weeks.)
For most of us, in my opinion, who know a little (or maybe a lot) about tech and care about such things and who still chose the XR, one of the major considerations is bang-for-the-buck. It is for me. The XR brings a lot to the table, and what it leaves off isn't as important to us.
Bezels? no problem. My XR is in a black case. I don't notice the bezels. Sure, the XS/Max looks a bit more elegant but at a price, but it's not like Apple put larger bezels in the XR in order to make it less visually appealing. Those lights have to go somewhere.
OLED? Nice, but again at a price (and some cannot optically tolerate OLED, but that's another story). PPI? Yes--I prefer 458 or whatever the XS/Max has, though I compared text on my 6s to a XS in a store and was hard pressed to see the difference in sharpness at a normal reading distance. Optical telephoto? Not that important to me, but I can see its usefulness
Now--you may think a few hundred dollars is not much to get those features, and that's perfectly fine. Many of us researched and compared phones and decided those features weren't worth the price difference. We don't walk into an Apple Store and say, "I want the cheapest iPhone." My 128GB XR was $800 plus sales tax. The XS doesn't have display zoom, a more useful feature to me than optical telephoto, so it wasn't in the equation. The Max would have been the OLED alternative. It has no 128GB option (as everyone knows), so the next step over the 64GB is the $1250 256GB phone. For me, the $450 difference in price is not worth the features I lose with the XR. If it is for you and works with your finances, go for it and enjoy.
While most who choose one way are gracious and understanding towards those made a different choice, a few posters are condescending and denigrating. There is no excuse for incivility.
For most of us, in my opinion, who know a little (or maybe a lot) about tech and care about such things and who still chose the XR, one of the major considerations is bang-for-the-buck. It is for me. The XR brings a lot to the table, and what it leaves off isn't as important to us.
Bezels? no problem. My XR is in a black case. I don't notice the bezels. Sure, the XS/Max looks a bit more elegant but at a price, but it's not like Apple put larger bezels in the XR in order to make it less visually appealing. Those lights have to go somewhere.
OLED? Nice, but again at a price (and some cannot optically tolerate OLED, but that's another story). PPI? Yes--I prefer 458 or whatever the XS/Max has, though I compared text on my 6s to a XS in a store and was hard pressed to see the difference in sharpness at a normal reading distance. Optical telephoto? Not that important to me, but I can see its usefulness
Now--you may think a few hundred dollars is not much to get those features, and that's perfectly fine. Many of us researched and compared phones and decided those features weren't worth the price difference. We don't walk into an Apple Store and say, "I want the cheapest iPhone." My 128GB XR was $800 plus sales tax. The XS doesn't have display zoom, a more useful feature to me than optical telephoto, so it wasn't in the equation. The Max would have been the OLED alternative. It has no 128GB option (as everyone knows), so the next step over the 64GB is the $1250 256GB phone. For me, the $450 difference in price is not worth the features I lose with the XR. If it is for you and works with your finances, go for it and enjoy.
While most who choose one way are gracious and understanding towards those made a different choice, a few posters are condescending and denigrating. There is no excuse for incivility.
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FYI, the newly announced iPad Pro's.............. 264 PPI. OH THE HORROR!!!!!!!
Bezel chunkiness too!
I get that it’s slimmer bezel than previous iPads but still!!! Bezel. Chunkiness.
Same. The XR screen, at second to smallest text setting, is so close to 8+ I’m not sure I can tell.
I believe you because you actually write intelligent posts with examples to back up your conclusions... as opposed to an idiot who just says "720! NO!" and nothing else.
However, I also believe you are in the small minority of people who can see the difference without putting your face closer to the screen than what would be considered practical for typical use.
And another thing I want to emphasize, we are talking about PPI here, not contrast, color, or black levels. People also seem to get PPI mixed up with the others factors when comparing the Xr to higher res screens. I would agree that it would be easier to tell the color/black/contrast differences (or superiority) of a high res OLED display compared to the Xr, but PPI would still be moot for the vast majority of people. That said though, the Xr is no slouch in the contrast, color, and black level areas either.
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Man, it felt good to beat this dead horse one more time!
I really think there is something wrong with my eyes but I cannot tell the difference between an iPhone LCD display and one of the OLED displays.... I just held an XR next to my iPhone X and could not see a difference between displays, in fact the XR display looked a little brighter..... then again I can't tell the difference between the X and my wife's iPhone 8 plus either so.
The 7 Plus and X are indistinguishable for me for text clarity, whereas only specifically with very small fonts, the 7 Plus is somewhat crisper than the XR (and the 6s etc.).