iPhone 4's "Retina Display" Claims Challenged

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 9, 2010 @10:13AM from the obviously-you-need-an-i-retina dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Of the many things that buyers might need to know about the new iPhone, Raymond Soneira — president of DisplayMate Technolgies — added one more to the list. Soneira challenged Apple's claims that Apple's new iPhone contains a so-called 'retina display.' According to Soneira, the resolution of the retina is in angular measure, 50 cycles per degree, where a cycle is a line pair, which is two pixels, so the angular resolution of the eye is 0.6 arc minutes per pixel. So, if you hold an iPhone at the typical 12 inches from your eyes, that works out to 477 pixels per inch. At 8 inches it's 716 ppi. You have to hold iPhone 4 out about 18 inches before it falls to 318 ppi. So the iPhone has significantly lower resolution than the retina."

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Re:Nailed 'em by Sponge+Bath · 2010-06-09 10:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You mean a G4 processor is not a "supercomputer on a chip"?
The reality distortion field is collapsing around me!
Re:Nailed 'em by RyuuzakiTetsuya · 2010-06-09 10:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

James Randi, Stephen Hawking and Oprah personally discovered pixies, gnomes and elves, proving that yes, Magic is real.
I guess the iPad's marketing is going to remain the same.

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