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The screen for 10.1" model is great: 2560x1600 (300ppi) - iPad (3 and 4) are 2048x1536 (264ppi). Which means it has 30% more pixels (409600 vs. 3145728).
by pooriaazimi 14y ago
The screen for 10.1" model is great: 2560x1600 (300ppi) - iPad (3 and 4) are 2048x1536 (264ppi). Which means it has 30% more pixels (409600 vs. 3145728).
- Xuzz 14y agoHowever, the screen is "PenTile" (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family), which means that each pixel is only 2/3 of what we'd usually think of a pixel. And it really does look like crap, even at high densities (such as on the Galaxy Nexus). If you calculate out the number of subpixels (what actually shows colors on the screen, the important number), the 2048x1536 display on the iPad is still significantly ahead: https://www.google.com/search?q=2560*1600*2/3+-+2048*1536 https://www.google.com/search?q=2560*1600*2/3+-+2048*1536
- revelation 14y agoIs there a confirmation for this somewhere?
- silasb 14y agoConfirmed that PenTile is crap. I came from a OG Droid to Galaxy Nexus and was horrible not impressed by the PenTile screen. It is really noticeable when using low brightness.
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- andybak 14y agoNot all pentiles are equal. I have no real complaints about the Galaxy S II screen. (OK - a bit more maximum brightness and a slightly more natural default colour calibration...)
- codeulike 14y agoA lot of reviewers raved about the Galaxy S II amoled
- mendocino 14y agoThe Galaxy S II has a proper RGB matrix. Galaxy S and Galaxy S3 are pentile though.
- chousuke 14y agoI often wish the minimum brightness on the SGS2 screen were lower. Most of the time I run at the lowest setting, and if I use the phone in a dimly-lit room I further darken it with Screen Filter (to about 35%) to avoid overloading my eyes... Very rarely do I need to use the maximum brightness, except outside in bright sunlight.
- tonfa 14y agoAccording to The Verge, at least for the Nexus 10, the screen is Plane-to-Line Switching, so not Pentile. Edit: and looking at the specs none of the current Nexus hardware is Pentile (4, 7, 10).
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- bryanlarsen 14y agoGoogle calls it "True RGB Real Stripe PLS", so definitely not PenTile.
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- Osiris 14y agoWhen can I start buying non-Mac laptops with this kind of resolution? It probably doesn't help that Windows doesn't have good support for scaling at high resolutions (although I would bet that Metro apps will scale fine due to the use of XAML).
- JBiserkov 14y agoProbably a typo, the iPad is 2048 x 1536 (4:3 = 16:12), the Nexus 10 is 16:10.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoThanks. It was indeed a typo.
- zanny 14y agoI can't see pixels on my 1920 x 1200 Transformer Infinity, but I can't help but think more pixels is a good thing. Maybe we can finally get some 2560 x 1600 desktop monitors at reasonable prices around 20 - 22".
- mtgx 14y agoIt's actually 10" not 10.1".
- asdfs 14y agoIt's 10.055" according to the blog post, so either one is correct. It depends on whether you round to the nearest inch or tenth of an inch.