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iPhone 5S Display Rumored to Carry Twice as Many Pixels as iPhone 5

So... if the Retina display is already more pixels than the human eye can see, why double it?

Likely another false rumor about the most rumored device line ever.
 
dagamer34 said:
"Retina" as Apple has defined it depends in the screen size and normal viewing distance. It is NOT a specific PPI. So for a phone, it's about 12 inches from your face, but if use your device in bed where it may be 3-4 inches away, you can definitely see pixels.
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Steve Jobs said 300dpi was in his words "the magic number"
 
Makes sense if they are going with a larger screen. It seems too soon, but maybe Apple is feeling the pressure from other competitors?
 
Nonsense. The pixel count has become a constrain for Apple. It is time for Apple to innovate IOS GUI development so that apps automatically adjust to different screen size without sacrificing readability.
 
Am I the only one that doesn't want a bigger display on the iPhone? I think the display on the iPhone 5 is plenty big and all of these people walking around with tablet sized phones just look silly.
 
1704x960

good to see Apple is sticking with their messed up screen dimensions.
 
nick_elt said:
how can you all say it doesn't make sense? all the competition has far higher dpi in there screens than the iPhone. Does apple really want to be left behind???
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The Galaxy S4 has a PenTile screen with 312 Red and Blue Sub-Pixels Per Inch, how is this far higher than 326? Samsung certainly certainly knows how to market that 441 number, but in reality it only applies to Green Sub-Pixels.

At 326 PPI, you can't resolve the pixels from a typical viewing distance. Apple needs a better reason to increase the resolution than playing a specs game with the competition. They aren't interested in things that are only relevant on paper. They'd change to an improved display technology before increasing the resolution, as that has an actual impact. The next resolution change will most likely come with the next screen size change, because that's when the change would make sense.
 
This is silly. The iPhone is already retina so there's no way that increasing pixel density will improve anything. We won't be able to tell the difference.
 
I doubt it. As for the Galaxy, while it has a higher PPI, it is also pentile, so the effective PPI is roughly the same as the iPhone.
 
albusseverus said:
First sensible rumour, i.e. isn't just guesswork, based on previous iPhone developments.

More pixels!

It's pretty clear Apple has to do something about iPhone's display. WIDELY under-reported in the Apple fan-bot universe, is how impressive the displays on competitor's latest phones were at MWC this year. Only the world mac journos ventured to ^truth^ that the iPhone screen hurt their eyes after viewing the new crop of competitors' phones.

I wouldn't be too disappointed if Apple had to increase the screen size to achieve this, either.
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No i was there and all screens were worse.
Much worse color reproduction, in many cases worse viewing angles and all displays were much darker than the iphone.

PixelDensity is not the only valid metric. But it's the easiest to tell people
(like "A cpu with 2ghz is better than one with 1 ghz" even if its factually wrong)
 
nick_elt said:
Steve Jobs said 300dpi was in his words "the magic number"
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Which was specifically referring to the iPhone and the viewing distance when using it - which is smaller than - for example - when you are using a notebook. Do you really not understand this or are you just that ignorant?
 
I don't need a bigger display or more pixels on my iPhone. I think the size and resolution is perfect. I don't need a huge bulking phone in my pocket, and if I need a bigger screen - I have an iPad for that. Doubling the pixel density on a phone that already has such a high DPI is useless. Apple needs to worry more about making iOS better, the screen is the last thing they need to be focusing on.
 
i dont want to start anything. all i originally was stating is that this is a good thing which is my opinion. that is all. :)
 
Having a hard time with this. Initially my thought is, "just no". The Retina display on my iPhone 5 would gain absolutely NOTHING with double the resolution and yet it would be worse in just about every way (less storage as app sizes increase, slower performance, lower battery life).

The only reason I can see in this is for a larger display iPhone along side the current size and making the resolutions match. A larger display iPhone would need a higher res for sure and doubling it is the best way to go for devs.

Other less feasible reasons:
3D (you'd need the same high resolution for each eye) but THAT would be the rumor wouldn't it?
The numbers game : It's a big change for a marketing number alone.
It's getting economically useful: so many "retina" displays out there that it makes more sense to go higher than stay lower. (This just doesn't seem close yet)
Apple is going to double (quadruple?) the storage capacities of all devices. :D
 
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lazard said:
1704x960

good to see Apple is sticking with their messed up screen dimensions.
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So what ? Even if they would do something like what
( which is something i doubt because of the mentioned points like a 1.5 multiplier) for you, the user it is absolutely irrelevant.

You can't count pixels, you can't see the difference (unless you have some mutant eyes, in this case you should probably visit a doctor), and it makes no technical difference.

Even the highly glorious fullhd scaling is absolutely irrelevant because you can't see a difference.
What do you think how many times movie productions use sd footage as backgrounds in fx shots ? just upscaling them.
Or in how many shots you are not even working with fullhd to save rendertime ?
 
I really doubt this.

The current iPhone screen is about the best there is (some may prefer the HTC One, but that's basically the only real competition in terms of screen quality).

More pixels means more work for the GPU, more work for the display controller, and would require a brighter backlight. That's a triple-whammy hitting at battery life.

What I could see, though, is some kind of camera or other sensor embedded in the extra pixels. That makes a huge amount of sense.

It would have half the resolution of the screen, which is about normal for a front-facing camera. You could finally look people in the eye over Skype!
 
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I thought this would be true because of all the 1080p display phones we have today, but thinking again, it actually doesn't make sense to double the pixels for a phone the size of the iPhone.
 
internet is already blurry on a retina ipad

so why more pixels in the upcoming iphone when no content other than apple apps and icons are ready for it ???
 
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