Qualcomm Demos 5.1-inch Screen with 577 PPI Resolution

[exfileme]

This display is based on Qualcomm's mirasol reflective tech.

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[ipwn3r456]

Mobile display technology is just growing too fast these days. Probably we can even reach 4k resolution for phones within several years.

 

[livebriand]

1080p on a 13" laptop just seems downright nasty in comparison. It's amazing how much the resolution on phones and tablets has been improving in the past few years while laptops and desktops have stayed mostly stagnant. Only now are a few models starting to break the 1080p barrier...

 

[nevilence]

surely there will be a point when extra resolution on a 5" screen wont be visually preceivable

 

[razor512]

If they can do this with mobile displays, why cant they just release some 8K or 16K tv's and computer monitors.

 

[nieur]

right now there is no point in increasing display resolution at the cost of image quality

 

[svillav]

If I understand this correctly this display works with reflective light, so it will be highly visible at full sunlight. This will be wonderful even if color accuracy isn't the best. Try reading an LCD screen in the beach at full sunlight............

 

[martel80]

This reminds me of loudspeakers/headphones boasting that they can reproduce frequencies up to 30kHz, 50kHz and so on... Totally useless when a human ear can only hear up to 20kHz at best.
What's the point of rendering details which human eye cannot see?

 

[alidan]

surely there will be a point when extra resolution on a 5" screen wont be visually preceivable

it wont, more or less. but think of this in terms of occulas rift that magnifies images on smaller screans

If they can do this with mobile displays, why cant they just release some 8K or 16K tv's and computer monitors.

because in a tv they would be absolutely useless
and on a computer you would need 100-200 inch monitors to even make those resolutions usefull for work space, unless you want to just have a really high resolution monitor at 20-30 inches that just has the ui in higher detail which is absolutely stupid.

even 4k on a pc monitor would require a 40-50 inch monitor to make that resolution usefull.

right now there is no point in increasing display resolution at the cost of image quality

i say this all the time, i would rather have true black levels opposed to a stupidly high resolution.

 

[darkchazz]

I think the mobile display resolution war should just stop. 1080p is already too high and the current mobile GPUs can barely handle it...

 

[hannibal]

1080p on a 13" laptop just seems downright nasty in comparison. It's amazing how much the resolution on phones and tablets has been improving in the past few years while laptops and desktops have stayed mostly stagnant. Only now are a few models starting to break the 1080p barrier...

Not talking about 27" desktop monitors still in 1080p...

I'd gladly take a 6x power-efficient screen over current technology

Yep, that is the big deal in here! Very good for mobile phones and other portable devices!

 

[teh_chem]

I couldn't care less about higher res phones, but the technology behind this is very exciting. I'd have to see the display, but if the silvery effect isn't horribly distracting, I'd gladly take a 6x power-efficient screen over current technology.