Come September, Apple will unveil its much awaited next release, the iPhone 6. However, this time, it wont be one, but two models—a 4.7-incher and a 5.5-incher.
According to market watchers, Apple’s new iPhones, releasing this year, will not sport a full HD display. However, they will maintain Steve Job’s Retina display resolution.
The new iPhone 6 are alleged to keep a display resolution of 960x1704 pixels. This is higher than the previous generation of the iPhone 5 series, which had a resolution of 640x1136 at 4 inches. In order to compensate for the new display size, Apple has to triple the dpi resolution, which brings the resolution to 960x1704 at the new display size of 4.7 inches. However, the 5.5-incher would also have to sport the same resolution since it would be a huge task for both Apple designers and app developers around the world to make modifications to older iOS apps to scale to the new screen size.
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Keeping the Retina display title intact, which stands at 300 dpi and above), the iPhone 6 models are said to sport the resolution of 960x1704 pixels on both the 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones. Apple did the same with the transition of the iPhone 3 series to the iPhone 4 to get Retina, and had to increase the resolution three times that of the previous model. The same resolution and size were seen on the iPhone 5 series.
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This time again, Apple is increasing the display size and to keep up with the Retina title, the display resolution has to be increased by at least three times that of the previous models (4-inchers). Since the transition to a higher resolution will increase the issues of app developers, leave alone Apple’s UI designers, Apple seems to keep the new smartphone resolution below full HD.
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This article is a speculation which is a research done from various websites and market watchers. The actual resolution will be revealed only when Apple unveils the two models. According to an article on 9to5Mac, the new displays with the said resolutions are being tested.
