By current you mean 2017? Let's see.
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Dear Apple, can we move on from 326ppi?
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Nokia 6, OnePlus 5, Samsung Galaxy A5 and A7 2017, Xiaomi Mi6 and Redmi Note 4, Sony Xperia XZs, Asus Zenfone 4, and many more. Do you want me to continue troll?
OnePlus 5, Sony Xperia XZs, Asus Zenfone 4, and Xiaomi Mi6 are all flagships when they were released.
Trolling is trolling.
Never going happen, to save battery life on the 4.7" model! Even with the A11 which takes less power then the A10. The 4.7" LED screen can do 2K resolution but Apple iOS rewrites it down to 720 to save on battery power.
Thats not true. If it was no would be impressed by the S8 display. It’s stunning. It does make the iPhone 7 display seem a little grainy in comparison.
Also, the 7+ has 401 ppi. Sharper than 7, but still comes up short compared to the whooping 570 ppi of the S8 and it shows.
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Not a flagship. Maybe some $100 carrier special running KitKat.
The difference comes from the screen type, not ppi. Hopefully, with this years iPhone X (OLED Screen), that difference will be gone.
Yes, and no it won't make any real difference.
But some people are impressed by big meaningless numbers.
People may be impressed by other displays, but i'd put that down more to them being OLED than higher DPI.
Untrue. The difference between my wife's 5s and the LG G4 - lcd 538 ppi - that I (also) have is night and day. Apple really needs to do better on this aspect.
Yup. Android OEMs like samsung intentionally calibrate their OLED panels to be more saturated by default. Add on the big ppi number on the marketing material, it works.
Are you saying you can see the pixels on your 7 a lot bigger than those on Galaxy S7 and S8? Geez you must have a pair of sharp microscopic eyes or are you looking at your screen with a magnifying glass?
Agree. I don't understand how people can say that OLED having better contrast and color will somehow look sharper. How can this affect a white background and black text? I'm hoping apple doesn't use pentile pixel layout and use the regular RGB stripe.
Higher than necessary dpi means smaller pixels, means more power driven to backlight to obtain desired brightness, means reduced battery life. Battery life is essential for portable devices.
Where is the proper level without playing a pointless spec war... A bit higher than 326 could be a bit clearer, maybe, but diminishing returns has set in. Higher than 400? Seems unnecessary, and to the detriment of the end user.
Where is the proper level without playing a pointless spec war... A bit higher than 326 could be a bit clearer, maybe, but diminishing returns has set in. Higher than 400? Seems unnecessary, and to the detriment of the end user.
I'm not going to pretend I can't see pixels on my iPhone SE, I can. But the colors are excellent, and I can't say I'd be willing to trade even a fraction of my battery life to rid myself of such a tiny flaw. I consider the ~720p resolution to be a feature, not a con.
Anything less than 1080p on an iPhone 'plus' model and I'd be sharpening my pitch fork however. They should really be increasing it to 2.5K resolution this year for AR/VR applications.
Anything less than 1080p on an iPhone 'plus' model and I'd be sharpening my pitch fork however. They should really be increasing it to 2.5K resolution this year for AR/VR applications.
Negative. Smaller pixels means smaller light aperture. Needs more power/brightness to get the same NIT level.
I just can't get used to the pentile pixel layout. Even at ~300 PPI, it still bothers me. It just looks wrong somehow. No idea if it's gonna be less bothersome on 400+ PPI.
That of course is just plain wrong. 326 ppi is pretty good but it is by no means beyond the limits of human vision.
Samsungs OLED screens use more tricks than just the high PPI to make the picture sharper. For example:
"The Galaxy Note8 uses Sub-Pixel Rendering, which further improves image sharpness because the individual Red, Green and Blue Sub-Pixels are treated as independent addressable image elements and are not bound together into fixed Pixels, so the closest sub-pixel is used when rendering the image. In some cases Sub-Pixel Rendering can make the screen appear to have up to 3 times the resolution of traditional Pixel Rendering. As a result, for Smartphones it is absolutely pointless to further increase the display resolution and pixels per inch (ppi) up to 4K (3940x2160 pixels) for a silly marketing wild goose chase into the stratosphere, with no visual benefit for humans!"
http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note8_ShootOut_100.htm
And even more interesting, they deliver the device with the resolution set to 1080 x 2220 instead of the maximum 1440 x 2960, so they must think that most people won't even notice the difference. alot of people will never set it to the max resolution, because they don't go through the settings.
Unless VR comes into play, then not even 1440 x 2960 is enough...
"The Galaxy Note8 uses Sub-Pixel Rendering, which further improves image sharpness because the individual Red, Green and Blue Sub-Pixels are treated as independent addressable image elements and are not bound together into fixed Pixels, so the closest sub-pixel is used when rendering the image. In some cases Sub-Pixel Rendering can make the screen appear to have up to 3 times the resolution of traditional Pixel Rendering. As a result, for Smartphones it is absolutely pointless to further increase the display resolution and pixels per inch (ppi) up to 4K (3940x2160 pixels) for a silly marketing wild goose chase into the stratosphere, with no visual benefit for humans!"
http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note8_ShootOut_100.htm
And even more interesting, they deliver the device with the resolution set to 1080 x 2220 instead of the maximum 1440 x 2960, so they must think that most people won't even notice the difference. alot of people will never set it to the max resolution, because they don't go through the settings.
Unless VR comes into play, then not even 1440 x 2960 is enough...
Indeed it does. But it also depends on 20/20 vision. However, a lot of people have better than 20/20 vision, and a lot of people hold it a bit closer. Count me in amongst those who can appreciate the difference in pixel density between the Plus and non-Plus iPhones.
Ironically, if you have poorer than average vision because you are nearsighted and aren't wearing corrective lenses, it would be easier to see the pixelation because of the tendency to hold the phone closer.