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What on earth is a ‘liquid retina’ display?
by jameshart 4y ago
What on earth is a ‘liquid retina’ display?
- 58028641 4y agoLiquid (LCD) retina (high resolution)
- warp 4y agoLiquid refers to it being an LCD (Liquid-crystal display), so not OLED. Retina is Apple's name for a high pixel density display, in this case it's 2360x1640 pixels at 10" so 264 PPI?
- jameshart 4y agoHave other retina displays been marketed as 'organic retina'? Have previous LCD retina displays been marketed using this term?
- _dongle_aster_ 4y agoYes, since Apple started selling devices with OLED screens, they have called new products with LCD screens Liquid Retina. See iPhone XR, iPhone 11, iPad Mini 6, etc.
- warp 4y agoThey seem to be using "Super Retina" for all their OLED screens. (I agree with artimaeis the marketing is confusing and they should publish a glossary page with definitions for these terms).
- artimaeis 4y agoThe "liquid" in liquid retina refers to the corners of the display being rounded to match the bezels. Retina is a now longstanding Apple term for high enough resolution to not see pixels at normal viewing distances. Hope that clarifies things, they should keep a glossary page up for things like this, hah.