LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display

angry tapir writes "LG Display has introduced a 5-inch full HD LCD panel for smartphone displays — the highest resolution mobile panel to date. The widescreen panel is based on AH-IPS (Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching) technology and has a 1920-by-1080 pixel resolution or 440 pixels per inch (ppi), according to LG. That compares well to Apple's Retina display, which has 264 ppi on the new iPad and 326 ppi on the iPhone 4S."

Re:Cool tech, but

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry I couldn't read your comment, can you increase the font size.

Re:Cool tech, but

[dgatwood]

If the Apple Retina display is already beyond the point a human eye can resolve - what's more resolution going to get you?

Bigger numbers. Also, it is beyond the resolution that the human eye can resolve at a typical usage distance. That doesn't necessarily mean that you can't see the difference if you're holding it wrong.

Re:Cool tech, but

[PCM2]

If the Apple Retina display is already beyond the point a human eye can resolve - what's more resolution going to get you?

Single-pixel tracking GIFs that are only visible under a scanning electron microscope.

Re:Cool tech, but

[xevioso]

This makes no sense. Silly foreigners have no idea how to tell a fat joke. The fat joke you just told has nothing to do with how fat a person is, and is merely a thinly veiled attempt at racism.

A proper fat joke would be something along the lines of "You are so fat, I swerved to avoid you while I was driving, but I ran out of gas."

Re:Cool tech, but

[epyT-R]

I've seen these 'retina' displays.. they're nice I suppose, but I can still make out pixels at a normal viewing distance.. maybe their test group was full of blind people.

Pixels

[spokenoise]

All the way down

Re:Cool tech, but

[mug funky]

a name like that doesn't bode well for it's autocorrect capabilities.

Re:Cool tech, but

[Darinbob]

You need one of those magnifying glasses from Brazil that you put in front of the screen.

Code name 11

[Grayhand]

Apple's response was to announce the new iPhone 5 would include speakers that produce sounds only a dog can hear.

Re:Cool tech, but

[organgtool]

Until those battery lives are measured in days and not hours, there's still a lot of work to be done.

1 Motorola Droid Razr Maxx 0.82 days
2 Apple iPhone 4 (with 3G off) 0.61 days
3 Apple iPhone 3GS (with 3G off) 0.56 days
4 HTC Legend 0.53 days
5 RIM BlackBerry Curve 9360 0.5 days

Better?