Then you would be dealing with the final render being downscaled, making the phone appear slightly blurry.
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iPhone 11 Why iPhone 11 is still a "720p" phone?
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Apple wins the money for sure. Do you win by buying a 720p phone with that much money? I doubt. Any other big brand still selling 720p now in year 2019? I don't think so. Even the cheapest Redmi offers at least 1080p now with around $100 USD.
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I have no idea what you are talking about. Almost no original source comes with iphone 11/xr 1792-by-828-pixel. When you watch youtube with iphone 11/xr it downscale the 1080 source for sure. yeah slightly lburry with iphone 11/xr downscale.
If I were just buying a display and nothing else, then the price is huge. I'm looking at the whole package and for the money, I prefer the iPhone. But that's just me. It's not you obviously. What's not so obvious is why someone would join an Apple forum 3 days ago and harp on and on in the same thread about what they perceive as a bad display? You don't like it so you joined the forum to start a thread to complain? Please help me understand.
I owned all kinds of phones including iphones before so I have the experience to share. It doesn't matter when did I join the forum, what matter is the logic right or wrong.
Media being up and downscaled doesn’t see nearly the same effect as text, especially on small screens, like a phone screen.
Media, no, it’s not.
Not that you’d notice anyways. Common practice with carriers is to limit streaming to 720p or 480p, and pentile displays (what EVERY OLED phone display is) are blurrier than an LCD at the same resolution. Your OLED 1080p Android’s screen isn’t comparable to any LCD alternative without dropping the LCD’s resolution. That’s the resulf of using RGBG subpixels.
The average user cant tell the difference or simply dont care about the screen resolution. Only people that really complain about it are techies on forums like this and that is not Apple's target audience. Unless you have the 11 and the Pro side by side it doesn't matter. In day to day use the screen is excellent and even if you can tell the difference you'll forget about it after a couple days. I know 5 family members and friends with XR's and they all love it. They didn't even know the resolution was different than the Max.
My girlfriend didn’t even know a new iPhone was announced until I told her, let alone know the difference I’m display technology lol. She has an 11 pro now but only because I told her a new iPhone is out. That’s how much non techie ppl couldn’t care less about those type of differences.
I have a XS Max and compared to the screen on the XR/11 the blacks are darker of course and it’s a bit sharper but the LCD and 828p is perfectly fine. There is nothing wrong with it and most people don’t care. 326ppi is very sharp.
Exactly. The average customer of smartphones doesn't know much about iPhones or tech / smartphones in general. I always tell them "Why did you get a new iPhone in July / August there are new iPhones coming in September and the new model sells for the same price and the old / current gets a price cut etc..." people don't know about this stuff. They don't care. They just need a phone, and the iPhone is pretty popular, especially in the US.
Take a look at this: https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/02/iphone-what-model-survey/ Don't know if it's that accurate or not, but it proves my point.
Only 44% of Xr owners could name their correct iPhone model. And people think that they know that their display is below 1080p. As if they care. And they shouldn't. Display looks good.
Apple sold 26.9 million Xr's in the first 6 months of 2019 in the US.
iPhone XR shipments topped all other phones in the first half of 2019, report says
More than twice as many shipped as the Galaxy A10.
www.cnet.com
Most popular Android phone was the (budget) Galaxy A10 with 13.4 million units.
It says so much...
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What kind of crappy carrier limits resolution on streaming? First time I ever heard of something like this
Any derivative of Verizon, TMobile, AT&T, or Sprint. It’s to reduce bandwidth and the load a single user causes on their towers.
It's actually common for some carriers to limit video streaming to 480p. You need the more expensive premium plan if you want HD or Full HD.
On the other hand, limiting your bandwidth is also counterproductive because your customers use the network less hence you can’t charge them more.
Carriers do this on unlimited plans, most capped plans where you have a bucket of data can do full-quality streaming (some have a toggle to also limit to 480p/1.5Mbps). In those cases, the capped plans either have a bucket that you can use until it runs out or a bucket that if you use and go over, you're charged an overage.
In the same way no one sees washed out colours on the previous LCD iPhones or ipads I guess.
it’s because OLED uses Pentile layout 3 pixels grouped together while LCD uses 4.
The Google/YouTube restraints on Apple products (1080p) hasn't affected me one bit. 🤷
They're not showing up Apple, or us, they're only showing themselves in a bad light.
720p v 1080p, the same. Not a big deal for most of us.
Just like Apple shows itself in a bad light by not allowing you to access things like your iCloud photos on non-Apple devices.