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iPhone 6 Plus Display Judged 'Best Smartphone LCD Ever Tested', iPhone 6 Also Solid
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Its actually more than 1080p but downscaled i think.
But yeah i see what you're getting at.
Exactly! I will never understand it. Android users always think higher means better.
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Lol, yeah, it was sarcasm for people saying the iPhone 6/6+ screen resolution is "old."
I've got the iPhone 6... and I seriously love it already... even though I've only had it since friday... the display is amazing... the 6+ is just far too large... the 4.7" is just on the boarder... and did I ever say... I love it...? ;-)
and I'll LOVE the features that'll come with Yosemite...
plus, the features that are already on iOS8 are also really lovely... and btw. I'm no fanboy... I've had the competition already... and I'd never go back to Andoid, or any crap like that...
btw. I love the 6 ;-)
and I'll LOVE the features that'll come with Yosemite...
plus, the features that are already on iOS8 are also really lovely... and btw. I'm no fanboy... I've had the competition already... and I'd never go back to Andoid, or any crap like that... btw. I love the 6 ;-)
It should be made illegal to hold one of those monsters up to take a call. It's distracting for motorists due to spontaneous fits of laughter!
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Get a case. Move on.
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Get a case. Move on.
I went to vzw to check it out and the iPhone 6 plus wasn't working. I heard one of the employees say "Can you tell [manager name] that the six plus isn't working again"
If Jobs was alive he would have said that at the keynote. . . . wait no he would not have, he'd not have given the nod to these devices. Jobs was a smart man.
Personally, I still don't see the point of the G3 screen. Its over 500+PPI.
As someone who owns one I will say it looks amazing...if youre viewing 2k content. Day to day, its not that much more amazing than other displays
Personally, I still don't see the point of the G3 screen. Its over 500+PPI.
Some people (including myself) have better than 20/20 vision.
Funny to see the Apple fanboys changing their speech from "anything above Retina resolution is completely worthless, you can't tell the difference!" to "OMG, the iPhone 6+ resolution is SOOOO great!!!111!!"
Even funnier to see people thinking all apple users have or should have the same opinion
This is unsurprising, given Apple's long, long history of superior displays; now that the iPhone has a 1080P res, it's going to be able to pull far ahead of others at the same resolution, which was more difficult to pull off at the previous 640p res.
Funny to see the Apple fanboys changing their speech from "anything above Retina resolution is completely worthless, you can't tell the difference!" to "OMG, the iPhone 6+ resolution is SOOOO great!!!111!!"
I think you are confusing ppi with resolution. What the naked eye sees as better on the new screens hardly has anything to do with ppi IMO. Many upgrades in other areas Of the display.
Funny to see the Apple fanboys changing their speech from "anything above Retina resolution is completely worthless, you can't tell the difference!" to "OMG, the iPhone 6+ resolution is SOOOO great!!!111!!"
Well... resolution is actually pretty great and it has nothing to do with pixel count (which is some sort "size" of the screen).
326ppi and 401ppi are AMAZING resolutions and you won't tell the difference between both (human eye can't handle above 300ppi).
1334x750 and 1920x1080 are not so great pixel counts (compared to other devices), but on phones that's actually waaay more than enough.
Based on performance tests by Anandtech, I think Apple did the right thing by sticking with 326 PPI. I'm actually surprised they went with a higher density display with the 6 plus considering the difference is barely noticeable to the naked eye.
Funny to see the Apple fanboys changing their speech from "anything above Retina resolution is completely worthless, you can't tell the difference!" to "OMG, the iPhone 6+ resolution is SOOOO great!!!111!!"
This isn't about the resolution, that's just brought them onto a level playing field. The PPI isn't actually greatly increased on the 6+, and on the 6 it isn't increased at all.
It's about display quality. There are 1080P displays that look better than 4K displays.
No it's not, I'm not saying the screen is bad, in fact I havn't seem it so when all variables are added together, it may just be "the best screen in the world", but by todays standard, 720p on a 4,7" display is NOT amazing.
The screen is indeed beautiful on my iPhone 6 (not plus). However, when comparing it to my wife's Note 2, the colors are far more muted. I know the AMOLED display overcooks some colors, but it actually looked more lifelike.
Could never bring myself to use Android again, though.
Could never bring myself to use Android again, though.
From the article itself:
The physical size of the iPhone 6 screen has an accompanying optimal resolution for USABILITY. The higher the resolution, the relative tinier you'll see the same icons and font sizes. Sure, they'll be crisper, but you'd have to hold the phone closer to achieve equal legibility, at which point, the crispness is normalized back to being the same as the lower resolution. Plus, the higher res would make touch boxes harder to hit accurately no matter how close you hold the phone to your face.
The only way to increase resolution without making things smaller and harder to read and touch is by also increasing physical screen size OR by increasing the resolution so much that you can use a different pixels-per-point multiplier (i.e. original iPhone was 1, retinas are 2, some samsungs and the new 6+ are 3).
So 1920x1080 would not have made the iPhone 6 screen better in any way except as a tech sheet comparison and for users watching 1080p movies with the screen held really close to their faces. In normal usage, it'd be a worse experience because UI elements would be too tiny (or too big, depending on if they went with 2 vs 3 ppp). The iPhone 6 screen would have needed to be about 2000x1124 with 3 pixels-per-point on a 4.7" screen (or 1920x1080 on a 4.5" screen and 3 ppp) to achieve the same usability and sharper elements.
Note: Pretty sure my math is correct, but the concept stands nonetheless. Screen resolution and physical screen size have an important relationship when considering usability. You can't just arbitrarily make res higher. You have to consider screen size and pixels per point because you want your "9 pt font" and "64x64 touch regions" to look and behave consistently.
This hurts their credibility. Not their ability to analyze and review a screen, but their ability to review an overall product.
The physical size of the iPhone 6 screen has an accompanying optimal resolution for USABILITY. The higher the resolution, the relative tinier you'll see the same icons and font sizes. Sure, they'll be crisper, but you'd have to hold the phone closer to achieve equal legibility, at which point, the crispness is normalized back to being the same as the lower resolution. Plus, the higher res would make touch boxes harder to hit accurately no matter how close you hold the phone to your face.
The only way to increase resolution without making things smaller and harder to read and touch is by also increasing physical screen size OR by increasing the resolution so much that you can use a different pixels-per-point multiplier (i.e. original iPhone was 1, retinas are 2, some samsungs and the new 6+ are 3).
So 1920x1080 would not have made the iPhone 6 screen better in any way except as a tech sheet comparison and for users watching 1080p movies with the screen held really close to their faces. In normal usage, it'd be a worse experience because UI elements would be too tiny (or too big, depending on if they went with 2 vs 3 ppp). The iPhone 6 screen would have needed to be about 2000x1124 with 3 pixels-per-point on a 4.7" screen (or 1920x1080 on a 4.5" screen and 3 ppp) to achieve the same usability and sharper elements.
Note: Pretty sure my math is correct, but the concept stands nonetheless. Screen resolution and physical screen size have an important relationship when considering usability. You can't just arbitrarily make res higher. You have to consider screen size and pixels per point because you want your "9 pt font" and "64x64 touch regions" to look and behave consistently.
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