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Move over Retina Display, there’s a new high-resolution beast in town and it’s made by LG. It’s the world’s first 1080p full HD 5-inch display with a whopping 440ppi density, which totally annihilates everything else, including the iPhone 4S’s puny 326 ppi Retina Display.
Of course that’s a way higher pixel density than you actually need to see it as “pin-sharp”, but it’ll play anything your full HD TV will, at full size, pixel-by-actual-pixel. The tiny panel is based on AH-IPS, which should mean viewing angles are really great too.
There’s no word on when we’ll actually get to see this beauty in phones, but I suspect a display of this calibre won’t just be limited to LG handsets. 5-inches might be a bit too big for my hands normally, but I’m pretty sure I could just about handle it — anything to get my mitts on that kind of colossal, eye-bleeding pixel density. [Ubergizmo]
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Is it just me or does that picture look photoshopped?
The angle of the screen looks funny. How is it even standing in her hand?
Looks like it could be a kickstand of some sort but the angle does look a bit funny.
Looks like she’s propping it up with her thumb.
I’m guessing as it’s just a screen and not actually built into a device, that’s a simulated screen image, probably.
Yeah, that’s kind of what I figured.
At least the 5″ screen will be 16:9 rather than the 4:3 of their current monstrosity.
Hmm, wondering how many actual pixels that is. Using Pythagoras’ theorem, one could assume the sides are exactly 3 and 4 inches. 3×440 = 1320 and 4×440 = 1760. That is absolutely amazing for a phone. But remind me again why we are still using inches.
Except it’s going to be 16:9 ratio. We still use inches in tech mainly due to the U.S. being even more reluctant to give up imperial units than we are.
OK, I was bored but the screen dims would be 4.36 x 2.45 inches (http://goo.gl/Zwc2m)
This gives us just over 2 million pixels. The GPU power of whatever phone has this is gonna have to be good, and I don’t want to know what the battery life is going to be!
Companies have decided that phone megapixels have reached their limit and now I doubt they’ll continue with the pixel density scrap, hopefully this means the start of a battery life war.
Now that really would be something to celebrate!
I would love to see phones with better battery life. But I think companies have been avoiding that battle because current technology just isn’t up for it. There’s still no superior alternative to lithium ion batteries. They make them as big as possible and you still only get a day of regular usage. In the mean time we’re more likely to see arms races to get larger screens on thinner phones, which is ideologically opposed to battery life. But it’s only a matter of time before a major breakthrough in battery technology. And that’s when I’ll buy my next phone.
Loving all these lovely higher density displays coming out.
Well done Apple for highlighting it as a selling point and making people realise just how beautifully detailed displays could be compared to the relatively crappy density of a PC monitor or HDTV.
There’s a lot of excitement about a technology which is POINTLESS unless you’re going to strap it to the edge of the peak of a baseball cap..
Wow, they’ve created a screen that will look no better than a retina display to the human eye, well done? Presuming of course no one is going to hold a 5 inch screen closer than they already hold a 3.5, which I think is a fair presumption.