So how long will it be until we see retina displays on Android phones?

[Eazail70x7]

I googled it and searched and searched. No luck. The most I could find was a bunch of copied reviews which started from Engadget which commented on how ridiculously high it was and there was another page that said that it was "super sharp" and easy to read on.

But no numbers

 

[Ahmed Alzayani]

Does anyone know the exact pixel density of the LG Ally? (It has a screen size of 3.2" and resolution of 800 x 480)

I don't know the formula to get the pixel density

You can do it in multiple ways , one of them is this: ((800^2+480^2)^(1/2))/3.2= 291.547595 ppi

 

[vandyblackandgold]

Retina is an LCD display with a high pixel density. That's it. And amoled uses LEDs as pixels so there is no need for a baclight. Don't innoculate yourself on apple's shit when they tell you it's chocolate.

wow dude. so instead of simply saying, yes you are correct in your thinking, or lets talk about whether or not you can really, truly compare these two types of displays, you waste server space by re-typing what i wrote and bashing apple. my question had nothing to do with apple. thanks.

 

[mkeath]

wow dude. so instead of simply saying, yes you are correct in your thinking, or lets talk about whether or not you can really, truly compare these two types of displays, you waste server space by re-typing what i wrote and bashing apple. my question had nothing to do with apple. thanks.

I was trying to be informative. The last part was a joke. Try not to get so butthurt next time.

 

[HustlinDaily]

You can do it in multiple ways , one of them is this: ((800^2+480^2)^(1/2))/3.2= 291.547595 ppi

DAMN IT IT IS NOT RETINA DISPLAY

They should have made the screen on the Ally smaller.

Shame on LG. Fail.

 

[takeshi]

The funny thing about this to me is how Jobs dismissed increased pixel count in cameras and then turns around and then trumpets increased pixel count in a screen.

Pretty typical. I recall seeing someone point out his change of mind with tablets in general as well...

Retina is an LCD display with a high pixel density. That's it.

It's also IPS.

He actually had a true point about that. Given a specific sensor size, larger (and therefore less) pixels will gather more light for a given gain. This will produce far less noise. A higher megapixel sensor at the same size will produce for more noise since you need to crank up the gain in order to collect the same amount of light.

That is why some old 8mp cameras will blow away todays 17mp cameras in terms of image quality.

It's more than just that. MP is nothing but pixel count -- that's it. Image quality is affected by many more factors than simply pixel count alone, despite what marketing types have told the public.

 

[Eazail70x7]

You can do it in multiple ways , one of them is this: ((800^2+480^2)^(1/2))/3.2= 291.547595 ppi

Wow, I might have to check this phone out at Verizon to see how sharp it looks. This is really close to Apple's 326 ppi.

 

[mrspeedmaster]

Pretty typical. I recall seeing someone point out his change of mind with tablets in general as well...

It's more than just that. MP is nothing but pixel count -- that's it. Image quality is affected by many more factors than simply pixel count alone, despite what marketing types have told the public.

These two quotes are contradictory. Steve Jobs said Megapixels in a camera isn't the determining factor. You slammed him in your first quote. Yet, you make his same arguments in the second quote?

 

[mkeath]

These two quotes are contradictory. Steve Jobs said Megapixels in a camera isn't the determining factor. You slammed him in your first quote. Yet, you make his same arguments in the second quote?

I think he is saying that Steve Jobs says something sucks at one point in time and then says it's awesome at another.

 

[vandyblackandgold]

Retina is an LCD display with a high pixel density. That's it. And amoled uses LEDs as pixels so there is no need for a baclight. Don't innoculate yourself on apple's shit when they tell you it's chocolate.

I was trying to be informative. The last part was a joke. Try not to get so butthurt next time.

ah. youre right. i went back and read it. hilarious.

 

[ari-free]

DAMN IT IT IS NOT RETINA DISPLAY

They should have made the screen on the Ally smaller.

Shame on LG. Fail.

I don't give credit to someone who has hi-res on a smaller screen. I give credit to more hi-res on a bigger screen. I have a big monitor for my PC and I love it. I can do more than with other PC's (even with better cpu/more RAM) because I have the space to work with.
My monitor can go up to 1600x1200 but I never set it that high because I don't want everything to be tiny.
Here's a problem for Apple: the new iPhone now has a higher res than the iPad but the iPad has a larger screen. It will be a long time before the iPad has the same pixel density.

 

[mrspeedmaster]

Ari,
You don't make any sense whatsoever. The higher the resolution is always better regardless of size. Let me highlight your area of contradiction.

I give credit to more hi-res on a bigger screen. I have a big monitor for my PC and I love it. I can do more than with other PC's (even with better cpu/more RAM) because I have the space to work with.

Then you say

My monitor can go up to 1600x1200 but I never set it that high because I don't want everything to be tiny.

I am running 2560x1600 because I can. At 1600X1200, you can have 2 full page browsers. Or one browser, a word document and a shell window versus running something at 1280x1024. The more pixel used, the more workspace available. A larger monitor w/out the same resolution is just a bigger a monitor. The difference between a 24"LCD and a 20 LCD to me, running 1600x1200 is just the same thing. I can't have 4 web pages up on the the 24" LCD because it is 4" bigger. It is still just 1600x1200. The pixels used are the same.

So if you are running a large monitor, say a 24" screen at 1280X1024, you are simply wasting it. The ONLY reason for not running native resolution is if you have poor eysesight.

The 800x480 on a Droid Incredible, 800X480 on a HTC EVO 4G and the 800x480 on a Dell Streak are all the same.You see the same layout of a webpage but just bigger on the larger LCD. You don't get any more work done because it is bigger. The only difference between those 3 android devices is the keyboard layout may be bigger for fatter fingers.Web pages, text, and all that stuff is the same. You'll need more resolution to distinguish them apart.

 

[ari-free]

If the font is smaller then I have to work harder to focus and read it. So while I'm not getting 2 full windows at the same time, I'm not squinting either. If you have a bigger target, you are faster. Fitts law in action.

 

[mrqs]

how long till Jobs finds a way to top OLED or bows down and uses it.

afaik apple wanted to use oled, but samsung said they couldn't manufacture the kind of numbers apple would have required, so they went with ips lcd instead