A Professional Perspective On Apple's Retina Display 346
Reader BWJones, who is a retinal scientist, sends in this detailed analysis of the iPhone 4's "retinal display," which includes photomicrographs of the display pixels of earlier generations of iPhone as well as the iPad. Well worth a read. "... as you can see from these images of the displays I captured under a microscope, the pixels are not square. Rather they are rectangular, and while the short axis is 78 microns, the long axis on the iPhone 4 pixel is somewhere in the neighborhood of 102 microns. ... While [an earlier analysis by] Dr. Soneira was partially correct with respect to the retina, Apple's Retina Display adequately represents the resolution at which images fall upon our retina. ... [I] find Apple's claims stand up to what the human eye can perceive."
Too literal (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently we should never ask a scientist, "How do you like *them* Apples?"
Fantastic display (Score:5, Funny)
And since you can't actually HOLD the fucking phone to make calls, looking at it is all you're going to do with it.
Re:Gotta admit (Score:2, Funny)
Truly a magical device. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Truly a magical device. (Score:4, Funny)
Punch card: the most important part is the part that's not there.
Re:We knew this years ago ... (Score:2, Funny)
Good point: I never actually thought about that.
Also, I never bothered to do the math, but if I'm not grossly mistaken a full-HD screen with 300 dpi resolution would have to be 7"-7.5" big.
I'd hit that.
Re:B-b-b-but I thought Apple was a marketing compa (Score:5, Funny)
That's all and pretty and works pretty well... (Score:3, Funny)
That's all and pretty and works pretty well... until you rotate the phone 90 degrees.
Oh, and totally sucks for developers to work with non-square pixels. Reminds me of 8-bit Atari, Graphics 11. 80×192 in landscape aspect ratio, pixels half a millimeter tall, half a centimeter wide.
Wow, Really? (Score:2, Funny)
Leading scientists have proven that Sears Silvertone electrical appliances contain scant amounts of silver. Some contain no silver at all!!!
Of course Sears didn't have a former coke dealer go on stage and claim silver content.
Still, this used to be Slashdot. Why do we put up with all this macfag gibber?
What a pack of lies (Score:1, Funny)
Using the term 'Retina Display' to describe a high-resolution screen might just be the most misleading thing I've heard come from Apple's PR department yet. A 'Retina Display' in the proper sense, actually projects an image onto the retina of the eye with no need for an actual display screen. This is not a Retina Display, and is clearly designed to stir up hype where none is deserved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_retinal_display [wikipedia.org]
At this point, I don't think anything Apple can do will bring me to appreciate their products, especially if they continue to ride other companies' coattails into their next generation products
Yes, congratulations, you have a front-facing camera now. That's not going to make the iPads without one sell any better, and I'm sure having two cameras and a massively complex display is going to just trash your battery time, even if you did put in a slightly bigger battery.
Their 'multitasking' is hardly that. You can SWITCH between running programs, but that doesn't mean that you can actively use more than one at a time. The one in the background appears to be completely halted while using something else. If they're using the iPad processor it seems like it wouldn't have any more multitasking than that architecture allows, which is little to none. On my droid I can run SecondLife, Pandora, another radio station from anywhere, surf the web, and watch videos - all at the same time. All of these programs can take input or provide information at the same time. Nice try Apple.
In summary, get a Droid Incredible if you want a fun, open experience. Buy an iPhone 4G if you want the same old shit with a new name and box.
Re:B-b-b-but I thought Apple was a marketing compa (Score:3, Funny)
the iPhone is better than print. I can hit the center button and no one can tell I was looking at porn while at work/on the bus/etc. You do that with a copy of Juggs, Hustler or Nasty Asians
Re:Fantastic display (Score:2, Funny)
You know, this isn't the first problem the iPhone 4 has had with going down to one bar.