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Rumours coming out of Samsung’s home country of Korea have fleshed out some of the company’s plans for next year’s Galaxy S smartphone flagship, claiming the phone will come with an enormous, Galaxy Note sized, 4.99-inch display.
Korean site Asiae says this will be one of Samsung’s new HD AMOLED model screens, outputting whatever version of Android Google’s up to by then at the full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution. Meaning we’ll see Samsung boasting of a pixel density of around 441ppi. So we’re going to need higher resolution retinas in order to see any difference.
Other sources claim Samsung’s preparing a 2GHz quad-core Exynos 5450 processor for inclusion in the Galaxy S4, which should also feature an updated 13-Megapixel camera inside it this time. We hope you didn’t just sign up to a 24-month contract back in May. [Slashgear via 3G]
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The Starship Enterprise Was Properly Huge
Only had my S3 for a month. Balls.
Ditto, double balls.
They say the same shit every time and it never happens. Plus who cares about PPI once it gets over 250? You cannot see the difference unless you look under a zoomed in camera lens.
Apple
PPI is the latest marketing buzz, it’ll die soon enough. But then it’ll be onto the next one…. yippee.
It is already dead as a phone feature, a salesman can’t show a phone with 400 ppi next to a 300 ppi one and stun a customer.
I can see the difference.
$.99″ is an odd size and not “Huge” since 5″ screens have been around since the Dell Streak. The Galaxy Note 2 is 5.5″. Also HTC have 2 Phones (or one phone with 2 names) with 5″ 1080P screens.
doh 4.99″
Where’s your review of the Nexus 4?
I really don’t want to go on about it, since I don’t want to upset and frustrate you and the others who were unsuccessful. Suffice it to say it’s good, beautiful and well worth the price if you don’t see yourself spending an arm and a leg on 4G for the next year.
That’ll do for a review
Just to Upset you even more, Kat’s got one. http://imgur.com/LUIa8
I assume a gift from an admirer or a bribe from someone….damn I wish I was a hot tech journalist
Personalised, too. One could think that some people might be trying to curry favour…
Personally, I’ve advanced through the ‘anger’ stage of grief and moved straight on to ‘acceptance’. Feel free to discuss
I’m there now as well…..actually considered a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 earlier today
Presumably there will be more stock of the Nexus appearing – just a matter of waiting.
In other news, new trousers are being released in conjunction with the Galaxy S9 to accommodate the 13.7″ screen!
“We hope you didn’t just sign up to a 24-month contract back in May.”
No, I signed up for one in August.
God dammit. Oh well, I guess…
Apparently it is also going to be made from adamantium and it won’t have buttons due to the new telepathy chip Samsung are making allowing the user to control it with their mind.
True story.
That adamantium rumour was proved to be false ages ago, some russian blogger has admited making the whole thing up. It’s going to be unobtainium, but will come with a Na’vi skin cover.
Surely something that otherworldly and pretentious would be from Apple. Samsung are inspired by nature not asinine drivel.
You’ll see I’m right when they require you to grow a tail to use touchwiz.
The screen size won’t matter much if they will use on screen buttons and minimise the bezel. It might have the same dimensions of the Galaxy s2. What I am more excited about is the Galaxy Note 3 as I skipped Note 2.
Well I’m afraid my willy is just not that big… I mean hands, my hands are not that big.
I hope it’s tall like the iPhone 5.
If you’re going to describe it as a ’1080p’ phone, then that’s a 16:9 (widescreen) resolution. So yeah, it will be tall.
I can totally believe this, because it just follows the current trend. Just throw the highest numbers you can in a phone, that’s the ticket. The largest screen, the fastest chip, the highest PPI, the most CPU cores. Samsung know that this approach sells phones, as it’s clearly been their model for a while.
Problem is, where does it end? At what point is the phone too big? If it’s too large for one-handed operation or if it won’t fit in a trouser pocket, is it still a ‘phone’?
Given that 7″ is officially Tablet territory I guess that’s the absolute upper limit on phones. but you have to figure that the larger they get the lower the number of people who will be able to hold them comfortably so they will stop well short of that mark.
Exactly, I just hope they stop sooner rather than later because it’s not like we’re given much choice as consumers. Flagship phones are invariably becoming massive phones.
and don’t forget samsung is investing big in flexible screens, so you could have a phone with a small screen most of the time that can roll out a big one when needed.
Ah, yes. We can make a return to clamshell phones
This technology could produce some really innovative form factors. It can’t come too soon, IMHO.
I think you have a few things wrong with this. The first thing is the ‘where does it end’ thing . It ends where we say it ends, people buy mobile devices with bigger and higher rez screens because they are more practical for internet, comms, and media. By offsetting a small increase in size you gain a better everyday experience – it is why they sell, it is what the R&D with focus groups has led to, it is why they make them – they are required for modern living.
Also wrong is this ‘just throw higher numbers at a phone’, this is wrong firstly because it isn’t a phone, and when it was a phone we were all about making it smaller, once it stopped being about the phone thing, and more about a mobile computing device, the numbers will always be bigger and better. Which leads to the finally point, I don’t think I will be alone in not getting the S4 if it has a 800mhz single core, 512mb, 2mp camera with a 2″ screen at 50ppi.
Yeah, not an idiot. I’m not saying that loading up the S4 with behind-the-times tech would be a good thing. I’m saying that it isn’t necessary to throw 2GHz processors and 440ppi displays at it because it could be argued that you get diminishing returns above a certain point, at least where these things are concerned. Meanwhile, you pay for those excessive numbers, with your wallet and with your battery life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure it helps Samsung to sell a few phones. That doesn’t mean I like it.
I know there is a demand for 5 inch phones, the popularity of the Note proves that, but the Note is more often described as a ‘phablet’. The limited size of one’s hands and pockets dictates that there’s a maximum size that’s practical for something you might describe as a ‘phone’. I’m not sure what that size is, that would depend on how innovative the OEMs are with their physical design, but I know that 5 inches is getting close.
If that sounds like a semantic argument, here’s why it isn’t:
As I mentioned above, I’d define a phone as something that can be used one-handed and can fit in a regular trouser pocket. Others may have their own requirements for the form factor, that’s just what makes sense to me for a device that’s carried everywhere by the user.
why do you need 440ppi on that device? it’s not like you’re gonna hold it 20cm from your face, are you?
Ultimately a 5″ screen is going to need to be at the least 1080p, ppi is just a consequence of that.
There are other resolutions they could choose. For example, 1440 x 900 at 5 inches would have equated to 339ppi.
If you hold it really close to your face and play a 1080p movie, you can emulate the IMAX experience, even on the job!
What size would a Full HD retina display be?
How far away are you holding it?
The iPhone 5 display is 326ppi. At that density, a 1080p display would be 6.7 inches.
So are we saying the iPad mini should have been 1080p?
Perhaps. Maybe Apple are saving that for the next gen.
The iPad’s display isn’t 16:9, so if Apple were to choose a 1080p display they would have to change the aspect ratio, with all the compatibility issues that entails. More likely it would be 2048 * 1536 (324ppi) to match the iPad 4, which Apple would probably describe as ‘better than 1080p’.
So we are saying the iPad 4 can window a 7″ 1080p screen for watching a film? I reckon jobs could have sold that as a feature rather than a limitation
Oh, he would have. There’s a nifty mock-up on this page:
http://www.digital-digest.com/news-63298-New-iPad-Screen-Resolution-Higher-Than-1080p—New-Video-Format-Needed.html