“Yeah, people are arguing about whether it really is a ‘retina display.’ [As in], can your eye see individual pixels on the new iPhone’s screen?” Robert Scoble writes for Scobleizer. “I say hell with that. The screen is the best one I’ve seen — by far.”
Scoble writes, “Just for comparison sake, here’s the iPhone 3GS’ screen with The New York Times on it so you can see the difference. It’s not even close! On the 3GS you can’t read any of the text without zooming in, while on the iPhone 4 you can clearly read the text.”
Scoble writes, “How good is it? Well, click on the photo above and you’ll be taken to the full resolution photo straight off of my Canon 5D MK II’s sensor of the 960×640 screen on the iPhone (you will have to scroll around a bit to get to the right part of the screen). Now THAT is sharp!”
Full article, also with video, here.
I cut my eyes just by looking at the sharpness!
Unfortunately, his photos are not particularly well taken. He should have placed the iphone flat on a table and taken with a tripod with the camera square to the device.
You know someone will ask, “Does that make it better than a Kindle (or what ever that old school grey text e-book is)?”
The content of the New Yuck Times is murky at any resolution.
I noticed that in safari the search engine is Bing not google. Wow..
Wow! Snappy sharp.
Duh. Technical arguments aside, it should be obvious to anyone, based on the specs alone, that this screen is in a class by itself.
Once again, Apple leads the way, raises the bar, sets the standard, and (insert your favorite leadership cliche here).
I agree with -jmmx-
This Scoble dude has got a great camera
but doesn’t know how to take pictures.
Can someone out there take a definite
set of comp pics that illustrate how
great the screen is?
To the railbird frigtards who criticized Scoble’s photo: get a life. He probably had but a few minutes of access to the phone. Even if this is a handheld image and not photographed to your snotty liking, the comparison is obvious.
Instead of throwing up all over Scoble, vent your spleens at the twits over at the ever self-important Wired for their snotty and pointless article about the new iPhone’s screen.
Bottom line: this thing is awesome. Deal with it.
Okay, the worst photos evar.
Shows that Wired Magazine is also a bunch of lying ass dogs. More useless Tech Journalism Afterbirth (TJA©)
All this bickering over how great or not 4x pixels are over what we have now is absurd. Who doesn’t understand 4x pixels must be a lot better. I can’t see the pixels on my 3GS so why would I need 100 articles and a debate about the meaning of Retina Display to know it’s gonna be awesome. Hell, Steve already told us so. Hasn’t he always told us the truth? Could we please stop posting these screen res articles and agree with Steve’s word? I guess not. ;^ )
Um . . . hate to say it, but . . .
Appears to be a broken link
They both link to the same photo (of the iPhone 4 screen.)
Missing link from original article:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/4697192856/sizes/o/
I agree with FutureMedia. All these articles are out there because the Android users are trying to convince themselves they didn’t make a mistake in dropping their hard earned coins on the latest piece of HTC garbage.
@Clue-by-Four
Bad English. You used ‘snotty’ twice total in
adjoining sentences. Get a thesaurus.
Having a few minutes access to the phone
is immaterial. It is still a bad picture.
@ t
In the new version of Safari for the desktop, you can already choose Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Better version of these photos:
@ mugwump,
ROFLMAO