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Originally Posted by afv011
Well, I read somewhere that 300ppi (what Apple call "retina") is actually not high enough for the pixels to be indistinguishable to the human eye at the distance a phone is held. But I agree that for most purposes, it is more than enough.
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Technically it is
not indistinguishable, but
others have argued that for all practical purposes most eyes cannot resolve individual pixels:
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Let me make this clear: if you have perfect eyesight, then at one foot away the iPhone 4′s pixels are resolved. The picture will look pixellated. If you have average eyesight, the picture will look just fine.
So in a sense, both Jobs and Soneira are correct. At the very worst, you could claim Jobs exaggerated; his claim is not true if you have perfect vision. But for a lot of people, I would even say most people, you’ll never tell the difference. And if you hold the phone a few inches farther away it’ll look better.
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