New iPhone = 960x640 Display Under Microscope
First of all those of you who do not like iPhone news, I apologize for all of it recently. The fact of the matter is, with WWDC coming up in a little over a week, everywhere you look is going to be iPhone news. After WWDC, it will dwindle away. As for those of you who do like iPhone news, read on my friends, you'll be excited. An iPhone "4G" or "HD" as some call it was spotted in the Czech Republic. Those folks decided to put the thing under a microscope to see its real pixel density, and it's looking like a 960x640 resolution which is 4 times the amount of pixels in the current resolution of 480x320. They claim it also has an IPS panel too, similar to the new Macs. This means that for every pixel you see on your current iPhone (which is hard already), there will be four pixels packed into that one pixel now in the new iPhone.
Why 960x640? Two reasons, I would think. One is to make text on the iPhone as crisp as a magazine. Two, and most importantly, is to make app scaling a breeze. Since all 200,000+ apps on the app store are made for the current resolution, quadrupling it would make all the current apps look 100% unchanged on the new resolution. I'm sure Apple will allow new apps to take advantage of the new display though. Take a look and try and decipher the microscope's image.
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