Thread: Screen Size/Display is really 5 inches?
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Old 02-21-2015, 05:56 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
Yes it is deceiving to our eyes. My iPhone 6 Plus has a 5.5" screen yet looks a lot smaller than the Kindle Voyage 6" screen, even though it really isn't. Optical allusion.

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It is not an optical illusion. Looking at the surface area the kindle is about 33% large than the iPhone. (Pythagoras gives 4.79x2.70 for the 16:9 5.5'' iPhone display vs 4.8x3.6 for 6'' 4:3 Kindle.)
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