Apple Retina Display: Under the microscope comparisons with 1G and 3G

Having queued for 7 hours yesterday to get my iPhone 4, I can confirm that the display actually exceeded my expectations.<p>All natively rendered text in controls, etc., looks like it was printed in a magazine.<p>This display is going to be <i>huge</i> news once it hits the iPad and MacBook Pros.

I looked at a iPhone 4G at the apple store yesterday and was curious to compare the display to the HTC Evo 4G's display.<p>The verdict: slightly better crispness, comparable brightness, comparable color.<p>The industrial design of the iPhone 4G is superb compared to any other phone (or electronic device) I've seen. It's more comparable to what you'd expect to find in a watch.

It seems to me that the black gaps are bigger. I just did a back of the envelope calculation, using the photos he posted and it looks as though black gaps take up about 30 percent of the space on the first and second iPhone while they take up about 40 percent on the new iPhone 4.<p>I wonder what the effects of that are. It probably just makes the display a bit dimmer (if one were to use the same backlight).

Are the pixels on the iPhone vertically oriented like pixels on desktop monitors usually are?

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