Re: Again 5.7inch?
Sorry to be lame, but can someone give me a pretty basic description between the difference between a FHD and QHD? I like to argue with my co-workers Scott how great Android is, so I like to be the know, even I'm just a rookie geek. Thanks!
Pretty much the increase in resolution. The matter of ppi is pretty irrelevant, since that is based both on resolution and screen size, which is the point most people will try to say about FHD (1080p) or QHD (1440p), that the ppi isn't noticeable.
Regardless if you can or cannot see the individual pixels on a 720p,1080p, or 1440p phone, it doesn't really matter, because the higher resolution the content you are watching is, the sharper and more detailed the image will be. For example, you can see a youtube video on a 1080p phone and set it to 360p/480p/720p. Between the 3 settings, you won't be able to see the individual pixels, because the phone will upconvert the image to fill up all the pixels. But in the end, the lower resolution video will look poor in comparison, regardless if you can see the individual pixels or not. Just play a 1080p video on a Moto X and on a HTC One (M7) and you can see how much sharper the video or image will look on the M7 as opposed to the softer image of the Moto X.
So it's basically like that with a QHD (2560x1440) phone over a (1920x1080p) phone. The image will look sharper and much more detailed on the QHD phone over the FHD phone. These phones can record in 4K/2160p or 2.5k/1440p, so the QHD screen can take more advantage of the extra information of the video, while the same video would have to be downconverted on a 1080p phone and detail would be lost in playback. The UI is another area where the OEM's can really let the QHD display shine. The UI will look sharer and much more detailed on a QHD display over a FHD phone. Not all apps are optimized for 1440p though, and with those apps, the 1440p display can only upconvert the 720p/1080p content, but it can't add any more detail to actually make it look better. Just the same way, that until recently, youtube only offered 720p on Android. So most of the time we were just seeing HD(720p) content upconverted to our 1080p FHD phones.
But this may be an area were the people who appreciate the visual quality more so, will see the true benefits of the higher resolutions. I've seen people still watch DVD's on their HDTV's, or stream Netflix HD onto their HDTV's and think it looks really good instead of going for Blu-ray content and enjoying the highest form of 1080p content currently available, instead of highly compressed HD content. Others think that since their TV's are HD, that everything they watch is automatically HD because it's an HDTV lol.
So it's something that people will either appreciate, not notice, or develop a the eye for the content. That's about that. If your friend is an iPhone fan, you can point out that the "retina" term is just marketing and that the iPhone isn't even HD(720p). We'll see what Apple does with their new phone, but at best, they may offer a resolution slightly higher than 720p.