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I dunno, I recall hearing (and believing) a similar thing about the iPhone 4 retina display. Seen an iPhone 4 display recently? It looks fuzzy by modern standar

I dunno, I recall hearing (and believing) a similar thing about the iPhone 4 retina display. Seen an iPhone 4 display recently? It looks fuzzy by modern standards.

raghavtoshniwal 8y ago
Mostly due to strides made in color reproduction and screen panel quality, and more recently due to support for higher frame rates. The gains from increasing the resolution have been minimal.
bluedino 8y ago
The other phones (except the XS/max) have the same dpi
- hocuspocus 8y ago
  Except the Xs, Xs max, the X, and the 6/6s/7/8 plus variants. And about every mid to hi-range Android phone that came out in the past 5 years. I haven't seen the Xr yet but the lower resolution is extremely obvious on the non plus iPhones.
giobox 8y ago
This is a tough comparison to make, because all of the iOS device screens that followed the iPhone 4 have vastly improved contrast ratios, viewing angles, colour space support, different anti-reflective coatings, screen lamination techniques, glass, even refresh rate if one considers the 120fps iPad Pro panels. Point I’m making is there is more than just DPI making those new panels look much better. The panel on the XR is the same DPI as the 4 and is widely regarded as one of the best, most colour accurate LCD displays Apple has ever shipped. The vast majority will not notice the difference between 2x and 3x retina, to borrow apples technical terms for the different densities - beyond a certain point display DPI is a pure bullshit vanity metric for a given size/viewing distance. For me personally, improvements in screen lamination are some of the biggest differences - on modern iPhones the screen feels directly laminated to the glass - on an old iPhone 4 there is a very noticeable “air gap” between the display and the glass.

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I dunno, I recall hearing (and believing) a similar thing about the iPhone 4 retina display. Seen an iPhone 4 display recently? It looks fuzzy by modern standar

by jonathanbull 8y ago

I dunno, I recall hearing (and believing) a similar thing about the iPhone 4 retina display. Seen an iPhone 4 display recently? It looks fuzzy by modern standards.

raghavtoshniwal 8y ago
Mostly due to strides made in color reproduction and screen panel quality, and more recently due to support for higher frame rates. The gains from increasing the resolution have been minimal.
bluedino 8y ago
The other phones (except the XS/max) have the same dpi
- hocuspocus 8y ago
  Except the Xs, Xs max, the X, and the 6/6s/7/8 plus variants. And about every mid to hi-range Android phone that came out in the past 5 years. I haven't seen the Xr yet but the lower resolution is extremely obvious on the non plus iPhones.
giobox 8y ago
This is a tough comparison to make, because all of the iOS device screens that followed the iPhone 4 have vastly improved contrast ratios, viewing angles, colour space support, different anti-reflective coatings, screen lamination techniques, glass, even refresh rate if one considers the 120fps iPad Pro panels. Point I’m making is there is more than just DPI making those new panels look much better. The panel on the XR is the same DPI as the 4 and is widely regarded as one of the best, most colour accurate LCD displays Apple has ever shipped. The vast majority will not notice the difference between 2x and 3x retina, to borrow apples technical terms for the different densities - beyond a certain point display DPI is a pure bullshit vanity metric for a given size/viewing distance. For me personally, improvements in screen lamination are some of the biggest differences - on modern iPhones the screen feels directly laminated to the glass - on an old iPhone 4 there is a very noticeable “air gap” between the display and the glass.