We’ve seen assembled cases, we’ve seen the actual glass involved, and we’ve got an army of leaks and rumors that tell us the new iPhone will have a larger display. Just shy of 4 inches, the new iPhone could have a resolution of 640×1136 if “sources close to the matter” are to be believed. Well, with the release of iOS 6 Beta 4, iOS developers have been given what they need to confirm that iOS is being groomed to support a higher resolution than that used by the iPhone 4/4S Retina display.
The iPhone is basically the only major smartphone to have a display that still under 4 inches. Every successful Android device in the past year has had a 4-inch or larger 720p screen, not to mention technologies like NFC and LTE. HTC even has a 1080p device on the way. The screen has never been an area in which Apple has had to do much to compete in — the Retina display is a tremendous screen in terms of quality, but the size and resolution of the screen has been pushing users to try other things to get a better multimedia experience on their handsets.
An added bump to the screen boost on the new iPhone will be more apps per homepage. According to the screenshots, the pages on the iOS homescreen will be able to fit one more layer of icons without needing to make any changes to the rest of the iPhone UI.
Even so, having a 640×1136 display puts the new iPhone on the wrong side of being able to claim the new iPhone has an HD display, though the quality of a Retina display may leave a question as to whether or not the phone is beyond HD. On a specs sheet the new iPhone will have a lower resolution display than competing devices, and that may hurt iPhone sales if Apple’s competition presses their advantage.
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