LG's Upcoming Smartphone G6 Will Have 5.7-inch QHD+ Display Featuring 18:9 Aspect Ratio (koreaherald.com)

Song Su-hyun, reporting for The Korea Herald: LG Electronics' upcoming flagship smartphone will have a 5.7-inch Quad HD liquid crystal display panel with a ratio of 18:9, LG Display said on Tuesday. LG Electronics confirmed it will be the G6 smartphone slated for launch next month. The new display panel, dubbed "QHD+," will be the world's first 18:9 QHD LCD, according to LG Display. The 18:9 ratio will provide users with greater immersion than previous displays and allow consumers to multitask by using the dual-screen feature.

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18:9

[Anonymous Coward]

Also known as 2:1

Re:18:9

[Oswald McWeany]

That was my immediate impression too. Is there any reason they would call it 18:9 and not 2:1? Or 6:3, 12:6.

Is this like Heinz "57 Varieties", where the 57 was chosen at random because the owner thought it sounded good, and had nothing to do with how many varieties they actually had.

Re:18:9

[ShanghaiBill]

Also known as 2:1

No way. At 2:1 the screen would be too small to read. You obviously don't understand how ratios work.

Re:18:9

[93 Escort Wagon]

Yeah - I'm holding out for 36:18.

Re:18:9

[omnichad]

On properly formatted movies, cinemascope films (2.35:1) would show smaller black bars than on a 16:9 display.

Re:18:9

[omnichad]

For easier comprehension and comparison by consumers to 16:9.

Re:18:9

[omnichad]

If the movie is filmed in it, the Blu-Ray discs almost always preserve it. DVD does too more often than not, but there aren't a lot of pixels for good image quality. Most movies are still done in 16:9, but a lot of directors are still enamored with the size. I own quite a few movies in that format - you see it more for action/sci-fi and almost never for romantic comedy.

Re: 18:9

[omnichad]

Not really an issue for video unless it's showing pixel-accurate things like text (lower thirds, screencasts, etc). Otherwise, you get pretty much the same clarity on the resized video - none of it is ultra-sharp to begin with. Just like most TVs have 1920x1080 panels but still overscan the incoming signal and most people don't complain that it's not being displayed 1:1 unless they're plugging a PC into it.

Re:18:9

[Solandri]

Since Honeycomb, Google has insisted on Android supporting on-screen navigation buttons (home, back, app list) instead of using physical buttons. I've noticed that when an app is displaying 16:9 content, these buttons have to be overlaid on top, obscuring part of the content.

18:9 would allow 16:9 content to be displayed full-size with these buttons placed to the side, no overlay. Calling it 18:9 makes it obvious the screen is slightly wider than 16:9. If you call it 2:1, that may not be obvious to people who don't know off the top of their head that 16:9 is a 1.78 aspect ratio.

Re:18:9

[arglebargle_xiv]

Does anyone stream videos in original cinemascope? I have stacks of blu-ray discs and only a few of them are in 2.4:1.

I use an old Pentium PC for video streaming. For some reason the videos all come out 2.3999999957:1.

Why 18:9?

[kramer2718]

So I googled QHD (quad HD) and it has a base aspect ratio of 16:9.Ultra wide QHD has an aspect ratio of 21:9 (note that fraction isn't reduced either). This aspect ratio is in between 18:9. For some reason the smaller dimension seems to have stuck at 9 for QHD. Likely some marketing guy doesn't understand fractions. https://www.google.com/search?...

Re:Why 18:9?

[Junta]

Actually, I would say that marketing understands that most *people* they want to get to spend money don't understand fractions, which is probably a good bet.

Re:Why 18:9?

[omnichad]

Sounds like marketing is doing what marketing does and making it understandable to the everyday person.

Re: Why 18:9?

[omnichad]

ATSC called, it has the same problem.

Run a test pattern through your Blu-Ray player if you don't believe me. I had to work really hard to find a modeline that got rid of overscan on my HTPC and 1080p TV (more to blame for my TV having bad EDID data).

If you have a 720p TV, the problem is even worse, because although it will take a 1280x780 input signal, it's usually displaying it on a 1366x768 panel and it won't usually take a 1366x768 signal at all.

Re:Why 18:9?

[An Ominous Coward]

Amazon has a few good years for that phone brand, the nerds won't be pissed off until they release the Prime 4.

I really loved my G4

[kalpol]

Removable battery, SD card, AND a headphone jack. They apparently kept all this for the G5, so that is good news, and hopefully the G6 will be the same.

Re:I really loved my G4

[JustNiz]

Yep, if it has all 3 then I'll be buying one.
Removeable battery and sd slot are basic requirements for me though.

Stupid

[fred6666]

Again, LG is doing something stupid this year.
Last year they tried modules. They failed. Not that it was a bad idea, but everybody knew this was a one shot deal and that the G6 would not support G5 modules.
This time they do a stupid aspect ratio, which will mean many apps will suck on the G6. You've read it here first: the G7 will revert back to a standard 16:9 ratio like all other Android phones of this year. Developers will rejoice and say they were right in not modifying their app to support the 2:1 ratio of the G6.

Re:Size Matters

[Anne Thwacks]

THAT 0.2mm REALLY SURE DID PISS ME THE FUCK OFF

It is a really important advance - it is there to make sure the expensive case you bought for the old phone wont fit the new one.

qHD vs QHD vs QHD+ when we have QCIF and QVGA wtf!

[KreAture]

Are we running out of letters?
QVGA is quarter not quad.
QCIF is quarter not quad.
qHD is quarter and QHD is quad? Come on! You are doing this deliberately aren't you!