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iPhone 4's "Retina Display" Claims Challenged
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."
The only thing to say is "Not for Apple users". Notice how the mouse sensitivity is set at 80-year-old-grandmother level on Mac's? Apple's customers are not that distinguishing. They aim for lowest common denominator. They've made a successful business out of, and that's all there is to say about it.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." George HW Bush
Your doctor is literally an eyeball? Or is he a quack who calls himself "eye doctor" because he's not a qualified opthamologist?
... and then they built the supercollider.
It doesn't matter, one way or the other. What matters is the miracle of Altivec. Also, Intel chips are inferior. Oh, ermm......
The manufacturers never claimed any of those things. Your point is stupid.
Pix or it didn't happen. (No subtle hint there.)
Once you start despising the jerks, you become one.
I don't know a single man with an iPhone; all the people I know with iPhones are women. How is an iPhone going to get you laid? If you want to get laid, I've written a handy guide called a Nerd's Giude to Getting Laid.
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