iphone is getting left behind in screen resolution

Do you have microscopes for eyes? The iPhone doesn't look pixelated at all.

 

I'm surfing on mine right now and I can tell you a little more resolution would be greatly appreciated.

 

Oh, well.

App Store. They can't change the resolution.

 

I wouldn't call the iPhone's screen pixelated, but I would appreciate higher pixel density. Look at the text on the iPod nano's screen, it looks a lot better than on the iPhone's screen.

Well, Apple could double the height and width, so instead of 480x320 you'll get 960x640. That way you'll maintain the aspect ratio, and the OS can stretch older Apps gracefully to fit the screen (each pixel will be a square of 4 pixels). I doubt we'll see this in the next iPhone though.

 

Apple actually urges developers to make apps that are resolution independent. So a little bump in resolution is not a problem.

 

The next iPhone screen resolution

I hit 45 and suddenly I can't see the pixels anymore.
I can read the text - but I fear soon my arms will not be long enough to reach the required focal distance.

So for me, and a lot of others, increasing the pixel-count will not improve the iPhone experience much. And presenting text at ever-smaller on-screen sizes would be useless. The Sony P series is particularly useless in this regard.

The problem for Apple is that a lot of applications could break if the screen changed size or aspect ratio. The easiest resolution for Apple step up would be 640x960 (each current pixel becomes 4). Old apps could run unaware of the resized screen.

Not sure we will see this anytime soon.

C.

 

I'm sure that if they do end up bumping the resolution they'd give programmers a easy way to update their software accordingly. And that's assuming that the phone won't have some sort of legacy mode out of the box.

 

When you hit 50 the icons dissipate

 

I'm 20 years old with perfect vision (no glasses, contacts, etc) and I think the resolution is fine. Seriously, how dense do you want the resolution to be? Most netbooks pump out 1024x800, and you are asking a phone to produce quite close to that? I don't see the reason. Nothing on my iPhone looks a 'bit pixelated', and higher quality screens that pump higher resolutions cost more to make, thus cost us more in the end.

Pointless in my opinion, of all my iPod Touch and iPhone complaints, resolution has never been one.

 

1) One of the main reasons the iPhone succeeded was because it had a higher screen resolution (480x320), that allowed you to see more of a web page at a time.

(Try a nice web browser on older 320x240... it sucks in comparison even with the same zoom features.)

On a higher resolution screen, you can actually see and read e.g. 800x480 worth of web page in landscape without scrolling around.

2) iPhone apps are already supposed to be written to scale up.

 

Actually Apple made it very clear to all of the developers to make their apps so that they can function on various resolution displays.

can't find the link at the moment...

 

I agree, it's time for 3.8"-4.1" 800x480 screen. I don't really care for 16:9 ratio since I don't watch movies on my iphone alot.

 

Let's hope the iPhone includes this when it unveiled next Monday.

"Monday, Monday. Nah nah, nah nah nah nah." - thank you Momma's and the Papa's.

 

resolution is perfect

The iPhone resolution is nearly optimal when viewed at typical distances by people with typical eyesight at a typical display brightness (roughly 1/60th of a degree arc line pair resolution).

A lot more pixels would increase battery drain and slow down gaming performance with extremely diminishing returns in usefully visible details.

The 2% who have extremely acute eyesight and can focus on a display a few inches from their nose can just go pay more for some specialty device with a low production volume.

I prefer good battery life and gaming performance instead.

imh

 

Um, I don't see how you can deny that given its a quote from you. But whatever, you keep complaining about quality HERE, instead of telling the folks at Apple who have control over the device.

Thats a big gripe I have. People sit here and complain and complain about feature X Y and Z missing, but they NEVER give Apple that feedback. Never. Not only that, they keep buying the products without the features they want! Well done.

 

And nobody is forcing you to read all the posts here... if you come to a website called Macrumours you, funnily enough, will generally find people who are fans of iPhones otherwise if they were so bad that even apple fans disliked them they wouldn't be the success they are.

You of course are entitled to your own opinion but don't expect the vast majority of thee people on this website to agree with you.

 

Whatever.. the iPhone still does have one of the highest ppi screens in the industry! Oh.. it also has one of the largest screens in the industry.. Oh.. every inch of the screen must be covered with a capacitance layer! So I would guess stretching on any one would probably mean more than just cost!

Btw.. I'm enjoying this thread.. do continue LOL!

 

It's been almost a year since the iPhone 3G came out. Personally, I don't think the iPhone needs an upgrade, especially this year. There will be very few hardware upgrades this coming season, if any, so the release of the iPhone 3.0 software should be the biggest thing to be expected.

 

Have you read this back in march ?

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/lg-confirms-oled-supply-for-new-iphone-586407

Maybe your / our hopes become true.