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LG’s Spectrum handset isn’t anything noteworthy on paper. 1.5 GHz processor and Android 2.3. But. The 4.5-inch smartphone packs an HD display with a higher resolution than the iPhone 4S. And it’s much bigger.
The iPhone’s retina display is nice, but at 3.5 inches, it’s not as much of an accomplishment. Those pixels don’t have to be spread around as much. But a 4.5-inch 1280 x 720 IPS display? That’s 329 pixels per inch. And that’s sharp as hell. Retina display only hits 326. Stay tuned for a closer look at this brilliant screen.
It’ll hit US shelves later this month for around £130, but UK availability and pricing hasn’t been confirmed by LG just yet.
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I might be missing something here but isn’t the (admittedly Apple’s) argument for the retina display that it is already the beyond the limit that the human eye can resolve so any greater pixel density is pointless? Now the aspect ratio, and size might be better but the improved DPI is (theoretically) irrelevant…
That’s all very impressive but it seems they’ve just made a higher res display for the sake of it. The eye (or no eyes of a human I’ve heard of) can distinguish the pixels of an Apple retina display and you’re just consuming more graphics power for nothing by making a higher-res screen. Pointless.
4 extra pixels per square inch? Is that even news worthy?
I was gonna say…I don’t think it’s even noticeable?
Really, it’s a bigger retina display, which is kinda cool. The price of £130 is kind of interesting too…seems quite low
I think thats the price on top of the contract.
Let me get this straight, having less DPI than a retina display would be worse than an iPhone 4S. Having the same DPI would be copying the iPhone 4S and having a higher DPI is… Pointless. It would appear the fan boys have all the bases covered.
This I more about the achievement of going beyond what apple have done with the retina display, for marketing products this can be great also. Personally I like LG as a brand, more so than the copying mob at Samsung. The large screen OLED TV they showed off plus the stuff they have for 3D without glasses is very interesting.
The Sony Xperia Ion has 323 ppi And 4.6 Inch Reality Display ,,, and Xperia S has 342 ppi And 4.3 inch Reality Display … Sony Xperia FTW!