LG Shows Off 5-inch 1080p LCD Screen

LG has unveiled a 5-inch mobile display with a 1080p (yes, that's 1,920 x 1,080 pixels) resolution, giving it a eye-boggling pixels per inch rating of 440ppi. This eclipses the iPhone 4 and 4S' Retina Display, which stands at 326ppi, and means that the pixels will be so small that you can't make out individual ones with the naked eye.

The 16:9 aspect ratio panel uses a variation on the high quality IPS (In-Plane Switching) LCD panel technology, called Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching (AP-IPS), so should have great viewing angles and colour reproduction too.

The most famous 5in-screened device to date, the Samsung Galaxy Note, packs a 1,280 x 800 pixels for a pixel density of 284ppi so this new panel will be a big step up.



This isn't a pipe dream, either. LG said the screen will be available for use in products by the second half of this year. This is in contrast to a number of other ridiculously high-resolution panels that have been demonstrated recently but have never come to light, including Toshiba's 6.1in, 2,560 x 1,600 pixel panel with 498ppi.

Of course, the question remains as to what the point of such a high-resolution screen is. With the iPhone's Retina Display already surpassing the point of visibly pixels, the extra ones offered here seem genuinely pointless for general use.

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