05-27-2014, 09:32 PM
silvarios wrote:
[quote=rz]
[quote=silvarios]
[quote=Lew Zealand]
So the new megahertz race is the megapixel display race in phones? That resolution is mega overkill, but it's more than anyone else's!!! Buy it!!!
Yet, when Apple keeps upping the res on their hardware…
Couldn't resist getting in a dig about Apple, could you?
Couldn't resist trolling people from thread to thread, could you?
Seriously, the headline seemed to be an intentional play on Apple release Tuesday. Isn't Apple rumored to be releasing a larger screen iPhone? Doesn't Apple strictly compete with these sorts of high end smart phones? Isn't Apple one of the biggest proponents of high res displays? Are any of these things inherently negative?
That prior speculation is fun but here is my point:
Apple has never had a 538dpi display because once you get to "Retina", which is apparently around 300dpi plus or minus a bit depending on how close you are to the display, the extra resolution is wasted. I am very much in the camp that ~300dpi is necessary as my primary use on my iPhone 4 (now 5) and iPad Mini Retina is to read text and they are fabulous for this use.
300DPI is overkill for movies and probably for images and in fact I rip movies for the iPad at 1/4 the res because there just ain't much more to see at 4x the resolution and file size (more or less).
538 is overkill and a waste of engineering. Unless it sells you more phones because the consumer is always right.