How sharp is the iPhone 4's screen? High Res 4 vs 3GS images

It amazes me how the Reality Distortion Field is strong. The Droid came with a 265 ppi screen and very few people cared (maybe <a href="http://xkcd.com/662" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/662</a> ). I googled around and could not find people taking pictures to compare the Droid screen with the iPhone 3GS screen.<p>(Also, I'd love to find reviews of critics about the "squared, industrial" design on the Droid and their opinions on the "squared, industrial" designed iPhone. But I digress.)<p>If anything, this seems to be how there's a void of real game-changing things on the iPhone 4, and yet bloggers and the writers who depend on Apple hype are working much harder to find anything to sell.

It would be nice if he had taken it straight on, or at least with a narrow enough aperture to capture the whole screen in the DOF. What's the point of the picture if most of the screen is out of focus?

here is a quick screenshot comparison <a href="http://grab.by/4UDZ" rel="nofollow">http://grab.by/4UDZ</a>

Photos of the real thing == impressive. That's quite an improvement.

By comparison, the 3GS display, with the grid of pixels so visible, almost has a kind of retro, low-tech beauty.

This suffers the same issue as Apple's demo site that shows the iPhone 3GS screens blown up 2x to compare against the iPhone 4 screenshots.<p>My eye doesn't have a zoom. I see things at their actual size and even holding my phone right up to my eye I can't get it as large as those images. Details that I can't see without artificial zoom are the same as <i>details that I can't see</i> period.<p>Clearly, higher resolutions up to some point are better for display purposes, but there's tradeoffs involved. I believe smaller pixels means less light gets through, it's more work for your processors which means less battery life etc.<p>Everyone knows why Apple doubled ppi and quadrupled pixel count. The benefits of this system over, say, Androids flexibility should be apparent. But there are also limitations that mean the iPad is unlikely to increase its DPI for years unless it follows Android's lead. Certainly not a clear win.

The questions that I want to know the answers to:<p>1. Will the next iterations of the iPad and MacBook(s) have this sort of display (perhaps as an option), or will it be the iteration after that?<p>2. How much will they cost?

would be interesting to compare to the Samsung Galaxy S (android phone) which has a 4" super amoled screen, Samsung claims theirs is better as contrast ratios etc are more important than the extra few pixels, but then again, of course they would say that.

I took of picture of your pixels so you can see pixels in your pixels.<p>Please forgive me.