justpastfinish
Member
But I think Thetis some validity to the whole over 300ppi your eye can't detect pixels. And at 1280x720 at 4.65 inches that makes it around 315 ppi
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Pentile screen? Really that bad?
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nstallion
Android Expert
There are too many variables to make claims like that. How good are your eyes? How close are you holding the phone? Is the image you are looking at anti-aliased? The iPhone has an excellent screen but claiming that pixels suddenly vanish at some specific ppi is silly. The "Retina" display is marketing, pure and simple.
The Prime will have a nice looking screen, let's just leave it at that.
justpastfinish
Member
There is no doubt but I've been reading that it may have a pentile screen and back to my original question. Would having a screen where pixels are so dense that they can't be seen, would having that type of display matter?
nstallion
Android Expert
Let's assume you can't make out distinct pixels on the screen. Having a PenTile screen will still mean the flat edges of certain things will look fuzzy. You'll probably have to look really closely to notice, though. With the Bionic which has a ppi about 80% of what the Prime will have, with the phone about a foot from my face I can definitely see the pixelation on things like the solid green battery meter in the task bar.
The Bionic has an RGBW (red, green, blue, white) PenTile arrangement which is different from what the Prime might have - RGRB (red, green, red, blue). I think the Nexus One and Droid Incredible both use that same RGRB arrangement so looking at those screens might give you a better idea.
I think if you look for it, you WILL see it. Otherwise it's really not a big deal.
