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Originally Posted by HarryT
With the very greatest respect, I think you've been slightly taken in by Apple's marketing hype. The iPhone does not have a "super-sharp, high dot pitch screen". It has a completely standard 3.5" 320x480 LCD screen, identical to those used by many PalmOS devices, for example.
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I didn't mean to imply that the iPhone's screen is unique — as you mentioned, some handhelds share similar or better specs. But its combination of pixel density (163ppi), brightness and contrast looks quite good and comfortable to my eye, and it compares very favorably against typical laptop displays (about 100ppi and generally dimmer) or non-backlit e-ink displays like the Sony Reader (200ppi). The iPhone's display quality and zoom flexibility — along with its always-with-me portability — add up to one major reason that I wind up reading ebooks on the iPhone more often than on my Sony Reader.
In any event, as with all displays, a hands-on look is the only real test since specs never tell the whole story...