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We already know that the Apple iPhone 4 retina display is something to really behold. Just hold it in front of your face and try to find a pixel. Try! If you manage to make the pixels out, perhaps I just have bad eyesight, but there is no denying just how amazing it is. The clarity and crispness of text and images makes the previous iPhones look ancient just by display alone. Take a gander at the image above – it’s the iPhone 3G display compared to the iPhone 4 retina display under a microscope.
According to PhD candidates Ryan White and Bryan Gauntt of Penn State University, the iPhone 3G’s pixels measure 13 x 40 microns. That’s pretty tiny until you consider the iPhone 4′s pixel size: 6.5 x 20 microns. Game over. Those are outrageously tiny and it really does seem like there isn’t going to be much smaller in the foreseeable future, but I certainly hope I’m wrong.
[Via: Engadget]
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Marc Flores
Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.
