Why doesn't Nokia use retina display?
 

I am surprised that Nokia is not improving on screen resolution. It is a day and nite difference between iphone 4s and N9 screen resolution.

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I just wanted to say... wow.

In before the hatred.

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still wondering y this post is in the Nokia N900 section.......

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the 4s does not have retina display, the ipad ("3") does. just saying.

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for your information lumiaman, Nokia Clearblack displayed beated all screen's out in market when Nokia C6-01 was launched. Test was made by gsmarena by using all high end phones available that time. And guess what Iphone 4 with such high resolution and its retina display was nowhere close to it. Only super amoled was close it. And also C6-01 has a resolution of only 640x360 i think. It beated every device in sunlight visibility, colour, angle visiblity. Retina is just a crap nothing else. And also no one can beat Nokia in terms of harware and technology.

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"Retina display" is just a stupid term coined by Apple for high pixel density. The N900 and N9 both have sufficiently high pixel density for their screen size.
And honestly, after having experienced AMOLED on my N9 and Lumia 800, I would never want to go back to normal LCD screens like Apple uses them.

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N9 and N900 has amazing screen resolution and it's better than iPhone's bad retina display.You should understand the quality differences between 2 phones when you touch their screens.

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retina = a simply LCD with a higher resolution , apple just named it retina so it sounds more fancy .

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I agree. I had AMOLED on my n85, and it was tough to go back to lcd when i got my n900. I would rather have an oled with a standby screen than a hwkb (though of course preferably both).

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nokia e6 has "retina" display(325ppi)
so stop lieing that nokia does not have an cancer curing life saving coffee making unbelieveably amazing retina display(not that retina display is actualy great, but some people obviously fap and come on everything apple presents them...)
suck on that :p

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Because I have seen the iPad 3 in the flesh and compared it to my Nokia N9 and my galaxy tab.

Retina display is a load of bollocks to keep the minds of the fanbois occupied.

I'd rather had a slightly better screen resolution - but SUPER AMOLED+ with clear black!

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LOL

LOLing again for 10+

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i have to disagree. The retina display is way sharper than N9 display. See the link above on microscope based agreement of.pixels. Amoled pentile screens are horrible

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You're funnier than your nick!

Surely you must've registered here just for trollin'. But that's kind of sad.

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lmao. We're talking about actual perceived quality, not the "microscope value", yep? It's amazing, how much bulls**t can be pushed in some people's mind by just simple marketing operation.

I would trade this for amoled everyday, if I could get rid of the damn useless capacitive touchm that is usually bundled with it.

/Estel

// Edit

And please, don't post such crap in N900 section.

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It will look sharper because of the higher pixel per inch ratio. There is no magic behind the Retina display, they just use that term as a marketing gimmick instead of saying "our pixel density is high enough so you won't see any pixels at the optimal viewing distance of an arms length"

And that's the point of it. You can have a 10 foot tall billboard with a display of 1080p, yes when you are stood next to it you will see every pixel but when it is mounted on its pole ten foot in the air, you will be stood at it optimal viewing distance and not see the pixels. Same goes for your lonely old SDTV.


That said though, the idevices do have crisp screens and it did make me wonder why Nokia decided to put such a low res screen on the 808 when it is taking such amazing photos. Could the not have stretched to 800x480 at least?

>And why is this in the N900 board? Can the mods please move this :)

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im sure you use your mobile phone with microscope but the rest of us(that means normal people) use our phones 30-50cm from our head with maybe prescription glasses for those of us with sight problems...

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Limitations of the Symbian OS?

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but still 808's screen is great. with such low resolution for a 4 inch screen.

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and please leave this lumiaman alone he just trolling. he doesnt even know in which section to post a thread like this. stop feeding the trolls.

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I dont understand this hostility. This is why products like ipad3 are selling like hotcakes. They are even calling them resolutionary. Are 50,000,000 people that will buy these devices wrong? i loved the N900 resolution, and I was real disappointed that N9 is nothing like it. The letters are fuzzy, broken and only when magnified look normal. I still dont understand why NOKIA cant improve on what N900 had in terms of resolution. N9 is a huge step backward.

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Billions of flies eat **** daily, are they wrong? Probably not, but I won't be joining them anytime soon.

:)

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obviously they are wrong since 6 500 000 000 people are not buying them

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You see it's a trade-off

you can't have everything. Some trade ppi(pentile,LCD) for contrast (amoled), others for better color reproduction and clearer text (stripe), etc etc. Fortunately there are choices for everyone. For me the choice on the N9 was one of the best. Bright, contrasty, not so low ppi, not-so-good colors (but you can't see it unless you play the same video side to side with a stripe amoled)

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By the way the iPad 3 has less ppi than the N900

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Ok, I'll take back some of my badmouthing, there's actually reasonable content in this reply.

I'm pretty picky on displays in general since I'm pretty much spoiled where I work. That being said, I'm not having any of the issues you described in my N9. I'm thinking you might have a defective unit.

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Maybe a visit to a optician will do u good +/- instead of trolling.

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if you remember apple launched iPhone 4 with multi tasking and people also called it revolutionery. So for apple and its fanboys multi tasking is revolutionery ? Symbian devices do multi tasking from start. There was nothing new with iPhone 4 and also nothing new in any new apple product. All symbian users were already enjoying multi tasking and all the features that apple products have many many years ago when there was no sign of apple.

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The amount of Nokia bias is incredible. Have you ever seen a retina display? it might sound like a marketing gimmick but it's the best out there. CBD comes after (excluding the crap resolution ones) because super amoled plus has TOO much color for my eyes.

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yeah the iPad's screen is also 3x larger. what's your point?

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a blah blah blah blah blah,
(fingers in ears) nananananan nanananana nananananana nananana
blah blah blah blah

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Nokia is too busy distinguishing themselves via cameras. The N8 and now the 808.

Apple is setting the pace in marketing terms around Samsung sourced screens.

Samsung is deepening their lead into SuperAMOLED screens and resolution density.

It's all about what the company has decided to use to set themselves apart from their competition.

Retina display or not, it's not Nokia's prime concern at this moment. Especially since Symbian and WP7 are both limited in regards to how high their screens scale.

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The fact that it does have "too much color for Your eyes" isn't proof that it's worse. Some people like more green-only displays from 70's, but that doesn't mean it's better to not have more colors/contrast ;)

BTW, calling it Nokia-biased is BIG LMAO, especially in my case. Have You ever read, what I think about Nokia (as a company)? Instead, refer to qwazix table. Pixel density is only one (small) advantage of apple'ish displays, while they sux at every other aspect...

/Estel

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Sorry, but a return to green screen would make want to kill.

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And Lumia is better?

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If you were to go by the numbers...

Nokia Lumia 800: 3.7 inch screen @ 800px by 480px = 252.15 ppi
Nokia N9: 3.9 inch screen @ 854px by 480px = 251.19 ppi

1 extra pixel per inch in favor of the Lumia 800. I'm quite sure it makes all the difference, but there's a very slight advantage in regards to pixel per inch; which relates directly to the OP statements of why Nokia should use the 325ppi or so (less for the New iPad) "Retina" type screen.

Not taking up for anybody. Just stating the facts.

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An interesting article from scientifically inclined screen aficionado. Pentile amoled basically sucks and I love the beginning.."crap, I got one with a broken screen!"

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/0..._oled_screens/

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as my father owns an e6 i am often looking at it and i am not impressed with "retina", on the the distance of about 40cm no human being sees any difference from n900 screen for instance

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@Lumiaman,

I think you don't know exactly what you're "fighting" for. If you want to complain about Pentile be my guest. Never had such display, but I'm "intuitively" against it.

But resolution? I won't repeat all arguments that have been put on this misplaced thread. Can you tell me how many DPIs most desktop monitors have? have you ever seen anybody complaining things like "when I read a PDF using acroread with 125dpi my eyes hurt!" I haven't.

BTW:
IPAD 3: 9.7 inch, 2048x1536 -> 263.92 dpi
N900: 3.5 inch, 800x480 -> 266.56 dpi