Thread: Sony Preparing New E-Book Reader to Challenge Amazon
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Old 08-22-2011, 05:14 PM   #150
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Do you think it'll make much of a difference? I really don't see any particular quality improvement between the current 167dpi 6" screens and the 200dpi 5" screens such as the PRS-350 has. I'm not at all sure that going to 300dpi will really change much.
Apple's Retina Display is somewhere in that ballpark (typing now, not googling!). It looks better than the original iPhone screen.

But as all things e-Ink, subtlety rules the day. Smoother fonts look better, but unless Steve Jobs himself announces it, most people probably wouldn't notice.

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