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Do you wish that your iPhone had a higher resolution screen?
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And if Apple increases to 4K and other manufacturers implement 24k would you want Apple to spec match?
I'm not discounting an improvement but OP's basis appears to be spec matching.
I'm not discounting an improvement but OP's basis appears to be spec matching.
You been brainwashed by Apple marketing - "Beyond retina resolution...". Retina is a Apple made up term.
But if the naked eye can't tell the difference, what's the point?
It'd be like headphones that go all the way up to 100khz, when the limit of human hearing is 20khz. It's a bigger number designed to impress those who are impressed by bigger numbers. But otherwise pointless.
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Not always.
Sure, more memory, more battery, more screen resolution, more cpu power, more screen on time, etc.
More money, more Sex, more Stuff ...
Concentrate on your inner self ... you will realise that all of that disappears into the mist and the beauty of your existence will probably reveal itself.
... or you can just continue playing Pokemon on a 4k Android phone. I don't care
Inner self? Pokemon? What has all that to do with phone manufacturers upgrading the internals of their phone. We're not discussing shallow moralities, we're discussing hardware upgrades.More money, more Sex, more Stuff ...
Concentrate on your inner self ... you will realise that all of that disappears into the mist and the beauty of your existence will probably reveal itself.
... or you can just continue playing Pokemon on a 4k Android phone. I don't care
This would be the perfect scenario, IMO.
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I'm glad you brought up the perceivable audio spectrum. I always believed that CD audio was lacking something ("fullness" or "richness") when compared to full spectrum analog sound (e.g., vinyl). I, personally, have clearly heard the difference.
I believe the same concept applies here. Even though one can't see individual pixels above 300 to 400+ PPI, I have noticed a visual richness/fullness nonetheless.
I'm fine with the SE display and the 6S Plus display. I'm getting a Note 7 and when I compared the Note 7 screen to my 6S Plus display, the 6S Plus compared very favorably. It's the regular 6 and 6S display that always looked a bit grainy to me. I think they should have been bold about making it thicker to give it a much better battery and a display as nice as that of the 6S Plus and 6Plus.
Samsung made the note 7 thicker than the Note 5 and didn't receive any backlash that I saw over it. In exchange the Note 7 gets a beefier battery.
For my part I would welcome a thicker 7 if it had a nicer display and a camera that was as good as the one given to the Plus size model. But I suppose Apple has its customers used to very thin devices and there would be a backlash if they try making the shorter narrower device fatter to compensate.
Samsung made the note 7 thicker than the Note 5 and didn't receive any backlash that I saw over it. In exchange the Note 7 gets a beefier battery.
For my part I would welcome a thicker 7 if it had a nicer display and a camera that was as good as the one given to the Plus size model. But I suppose Apple has its customers used to very thin devices and there would be a backlash if they try making the shorter narrower device fatter to compensate.
"Some" can't perceive a difference.
The idea of "retina" was marketed (not sure if there was actual science involved) so individual pixels could not be destinguished from one another with 20/20 vision at a pre defined viewing distance.
Somehow people got it in their heads that 20/20 vision is "perfect" vision. Therefore no one can see individual pixels at a normal viewing distance. In reality a shockingly large percent of the population have better than 20/20 vision. Maybe not the majority but a lot.
Other phones — which also happen to have higher resolution screens — have very comparable battery life to the iPhone.
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How is that obvious?
Perhaps they were answering the poll question:
Are you fine with your current iPhone's resolution?
But others phablet have bigger battery capacity than the iPhone 6s Plus and we all know Apple is being cheap with the battery in iPhones so they probably won't put a 3500mAh battery until a long time.
Point taken, you're right. It's pretty dumb to have the thread title and poll title be different.
As long as we're wishing for things, why not wish for a larger battery?
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I know, I know, but I can't change that now, I've tried.
You should be able to alternatively edit the thread title though. Or at the very least could report your OP to the mods to request a change of the poll or title or something else and they would generally take care of if fairly quickly.
No, current resolution is more than fine. For reference, I have a cellphone with a 720p resolution for a 4.5" screen. That's lower than the iPhone, yet I love it. Nothing is wrong with the current screen resolution.
Fix the battery first, how about it? And don't make the phone thinner.
Fix the battery first, how about it? And don't make the phone thinner.
It has nothing to do with being "cheap". Apple decided years ago that iOS devices should run for 10 hours of surfing, watching movies, etc. They have had this spec on nearly every iPhone and iPad. So as battery tech and processor efficiency has improved, they've made the phones lighter and thinner, not longer-running.
Everyone I know, plugs their phone in every night. Apple must have solid data backing up their design choices - and I've never heard someone (outside of these forums) wanting a fatter, heavier iPhone with more battery life.
Most iPhone owners don't know the difference and most probably don't care. If Apple was bragging about it, like they did years ago, people would buy into the hype. But not today.
That said, I'd certainly appreciate a modern display. My Android phones have gorgeous high resolution screens. Side by side with my iPhone 6S Plus, Apple's looking awfully outdated.
That said, I'd certainly appreciate a modern display. My Android phones have gorgeous high resolution screens. Side by side with my iPhone 6S Plus, Apple's looking awfully outdated.