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How do you activate Retina Display on the iPhone 4??
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Take a nail punch and a hammer and remove 3/4 of the pixels on your screen. That will reduce the pixels to 3GS quality.
With the retina display on the iP4, you don't have to put it up close to your face in order to read the text.
I do, so does my dad. It's either doing that or zooming in because it's a pain. I'm half blind too and my vision will probably be totally gone in the next 20 years. Safari text is fine, the keyboard is fine, but the apps are the big problem.
A resolution feature might squish everything, but at least it'll allow people like me to look at the screen easier without straining our eyes. Maybe an adapter could be a better solution.
yea retina display is only amazing if you have healthy perfect retinas. you could try turning on black on white under accesiblity. I find that my dad have a easier time reading thing when it's on like that. But it sure looks ugly
No, if you did that then the brightness would be less but if we removed 3/4ths of the pixels then we could save 3/4ths of the battery life and still have the same brightness.
Just like with the camera. We have 5 MPs but if we only take pictures with 2 MPs then we save 3 MPs of battery life.
I think he is being sarcastic if you couldn't tell...
I know, at least the thread has SOME reason to exist.
I actually don't notice a huge difference between my IP4 and my iPad, or MacBook Pro, or anything. They all look good to me. And I have 20/13 vision too. I seriously don't see the big deal about retina display.
When I first got the iPhone 4, I would use my 3GS and notices all these pixels. After about a week, I could go back and forth between the two and not notice the pixels on the 3GS anymore. I still love using both.
You're gonna have to explain this one to me. How is making things fuzzier better for bad eyes?
I wear glasses BECAUSE they make things sharper. Do you wear glasses that make thing fuzzier?
Have you checked out the Zoom Option in Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Zoom? If you turn it on you can zoom with a three-fingered tap and drag around with three fingers.
Hehe. Oh, and I've always wanted to be wastelanded, so now I can.
Also, I'd like to lose the ability to film HD video. That way, I can turn some of the video RAM into battery life!
Also, I'd like to lose the ability to film HD video. That way, I can turn some of the video RAM into battery life!
I think you are confused between lowering the resolution of the screen and zooming in on things. Lowering the resolution to 3GS levels would just make things less crisp, just as they look on an actual 3GS screen. All of the text and buttons would still be the exact same size. There is no way that this makes it any easier for anyone to read at any distance.
Theoretically the phone could keep its current resolution but allow you to zoom in on stuff. This would allow most things to remain crisp but get bigger, of course with the down side that you can't see everything that should be on the screen all at once. In fact I think you can do this...I'm not sure how though.
Ok to activate do this:
First get a knife and carefully cut the plastic off the box.
Second open the box
Third look (but not too hard) at the iPhone
Fourth pick it up*. *once activated don't hold it near the corner unless u have case
Fifth connect the iPhone to your computer
Sixth click the restore or start as new
Seventh your done the phone is activated
O yea it's has a retina DISPLAY so enjoy.
Sorry I couldn't resist it was just too great op, but yes the retinaness is built in because it's the screen.
First get a knife and carefully cut the plastic off the box.
Second open the box
Third look (but not too hard) at the iPhone
Fourth pick it up*. *once activated don't hold it near the corner unless u have case
Fifth connect the iPhone to your computer
Sixth click the restore or start as new
Seventh your done the phone is activated
O yea it's has a retina DISPLAY so enjoy.
Sorry I couldn't resist it was just too great op, but yes the retinaness is built in because it's the screen.
What the HELL is everyone talking about?
This thread is alternate reality.
This how I feel:
