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I know Apple won't do it. But I'd kill for the Touch ID ring around the home button to be a pulsing LED notification indicator
 
Apple should add quad/octa 64bit CPU (I doubt Apple will do it because they are more concern about battery life) 4K video? Probably not ready. More RAM it is possibly because Apple learned their mistake. :apple:
 
Wait... its not classified as HD?

Then what resolution is retina?


I believe the classification for HD is 720/1080 lines on the smaller side. The iPhone is 640.

IMO there are a lot of gray areas (PPI vs size) when it comes to a mobile device. However technically speaking an "HD" video won't fit on an iPhone screen currently.
 
Apple creates impressive devices but cripples their capabilities with form over function and a market model.

For me, I would love to see simple customization of screens (example iPhone). The most obvious one is a true option for size of text/icons. While the typical layout is for 4x5 matrix of icons, I would like the option for say 3x4 so that the text is easier to read at a glance. Similar can be said for menus within Apple apps such as "Music." The bottom options are not so easy to read and it should be a choice to have less per a screen and larger. As well, some people might want to re-order what is shown on their screens. I don't use their radio related option and would like to not have it show up on the first menu screen option of Music. These are just examples for wanting some better customization of screens. I'll just say (as I have in other threads) that an Apple store employee told me that he had 7 iPad Minis returned that weekend simply because the purchasers found the screen texts too hard to read (small text).
 
How about REAL APPS!

Oh and the term "HD" is less scientific than "retina"....cracks me up we use terms that were coined based on much larger displays with much lower pixel density....
 

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- Battery Life
- Multiple screen size options (4inch high-end model a must in my opinion)
- Something that could disrupt the mobile market (like the iPhone introduction)
 
Oh and the term "HD" is less scientific than "retina"

There's nothing scientific about either of them, but the former is a standard whereas the latter is just some random number that AAPL pulled out of their hat.
 
There's nothing scientific about either of them, but the former is a standard whereas the latter is just some random number that AAPL pulled out of their hat.

Wrong. There's actually a formula behind "retina" - I'd take that (which accounts for various viewing distances based on display size) over a 40 year old standard which started with larger TV displays and never adapted to smaller displays held much closer to one's face.

To say a 720p 39" flatscreen is more "hi def" than a 640 iPhone is ridiculous if used as a negative against the iPhone.

I doubt it will be an issue much longer though.
 
Wrong. There's actually a formula behind "retina".

Sure. And the formula is completely useless, whereas adhereing to a standard means that you won't need to either rescale all of your videos and apps to a weird resolution that is useless elsewhere, or have to resort to scaling on the fly which will worsen quality and decrease battery life.
 
Sure. And the formula is completely useless, whereas adhereing to a standard means that you won't need to either rescale all of your videos and apps to a weird resolution that is useless elsewhere, or have to resort to scaling on the fly which will worsen quality and decrease battery life.

We're talking about two different things here....

I'm saying as a standard by which to gauge display quality and sharpness, "retina" means far more than "HD" - yet the iPhone is bashed for not having an "HD" display.

You're talking about the ramifications for moving outside normally accepted standard resolutions for developers as they work to tailor their apps to specific screen sizes and resolutions. To which, I agree. If one wants to say "The iPhone should move to 720p or 1080p so its easier on devs" that's fine. But alas....people don't.

Plus, the reason Apple is in this in the first place is because the iPhone began at 4:3 not 16:9. In order to actually make it easier for devs, the 1136x640 was born. Now though, they face a conundrum. Can they double that resolution and solve both "problems" (ease on devs, lack of "HD")? Unfortunately I don't think the display tech exists. And do they really want to change to something now that will only last for a year until that tech DOES exist, only to move back and give devs a headache?

My guess - whatever resolution they go to will either be easily scalable for devs or Apple will have implemented a solution to make it as painless as possible. You don't spend 7 years making it easy (resolution wise) just to turn around and say "screw you, we're going to something totally different". iOS devices are, after all, ALL about the apps.
 
Wrong. There's actually a formula behind "retina" - I'd take that (which accounts for various viewing distances based on display size) over a 40 year old standard which started with larger TV displays and never adapted to smaller displays held much closer to one's face.

To say a 720p 39" flatscreen is more "hi def" than a 640 iPhone is ridiculous if used as a negative against the iPhone.

I doubt it will be an issue much longer though.

Yeah a formula based on flaws. 20/20 vision + viewing distance = Retina. I have as MANY people have better then 20/20 and viewing distance is not an absolute. Marketing term, albeit a brilliant one.

HD is based on math. Is there 720 lines vertically? Yes? Its HD. No? Its not.

Thats why HD is a standard and Retina is not. No one said HD has to look good. It just has to meet a standard for displaying another standard in video.
 
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What should Apple add to their devices?

Yeah a formula based on flaws. 20/20 vision + viewing distance = Retina. I have as MANY people have better then 20/20 and viewing distance is not an absolute. Marketing term, albeit a brilliant one.

HD is based on math. Is there 720 lines vertically? Yes? Its HD. No? Its not.

Thats why HD is a standard and Retina is not. No one said HD has to look good. It just has to meet a standard for displaying another standard in video.


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We're talking about two different things here....



I'm saying as a standard by which to gauge display quality and sharpness, "retina" means far more than "HD" - yet the iPhone is bashed for not having an "HD" display.



You're talking about the ramifications for moving outside normally accepted standard resolutions for developers as they work to tailor their apps to specific screen sizes and resolutions. To which, I agree. If one wants to say "The iPhone should move to 720p or 1080p so its easier on devs" that's fine. But alas....people don't.



Plus, the reason Apple is in this in the first place is because the iPhone began at 4:3 not 16:9. In order to actually make it easier for devs, the 1136x640 was born. Now though, they face a conundrum. Can they double that resolution and solve both "problems" (ease on devs, lack of "HD")? Unfortunately I don't think the display tech exists. And do they really want to change to something now that will only last for a year until that tech DOES exist, only to move back and give devs a headache?



My guess - whatever resolution they go to will either be easily scalable for devs or Apple will have implemented a solution to make it as painless as possible. You don't spend 7 years making it easy (resolution wise) just to turn around and say "screw you, we're going to something totally different". iOS devices are, after all, ALL about the apps.

Isn't all that matters is wether the screen looks good or not? Who cares what standard or any of the other crap. If the screen looks good, and is sharp then it should just fine.
 
Yeah a formula based on flaws. 20/20 vision + viewing distance = Retina. I have as MANY people have better then 20/20 and viewing distance is not an absolute. Marketing term, albeit a brilliant one.

HD is based on math. Is there 720 lines vertically? Yes? Its HD. No? Its not.

Thats why HD is a standard and Retina is not. No one said HD has to look good. It just has to meet a standard for displaying another standard in video.


But isn't HD supposed to be a quality standard? So to say HD doesn't have to look good is ludicrous.

Listen, I'm not saying retina is the end-all be-all. Just fed up with the notion that an iPhone display isn't good enough because it's not "HD". That's means next to nothing....

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Isn't all that matters is wether the screen looks good or not? Who cares what standard or any of the other crap. If the screen looks good, and is sharp then it should just fine.


Yes. There is far more to display quality than retina or resolution. The iPhone's display was arguably the best as far as color reproduction and quality go until the GS5.
 
But isn't HD supposed to be a quality standard? So to say HD doesn't have to look good is ludicrous.

Listen, I'm not saying retina is the end-all be-all. Just fed up with the notion that an iPhone display isn't good enough because it's not "HD". That's means next to nothing....

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Yes. There is far more to display quality than retina or resolution. The iPhone's display was arguably the best as far as color reproduction and quality go until the GS5.


I mean my iPhone 5s screen looks great to me. Who cares who has the best? I don't really. As long as it's sharp that is all I care about.
 
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