iPhone 6 to get super-sharp 'triple-resolution' screen

 
       

  
  
   
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    Apple is testing its sharpest screen ever for the new iPhone 6, the latest reports suggest     
 
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    Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 1:52pm  
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        THE new iPhone 6, expected in late summer or autumn, will feature not only a much larger screen, but a much sharper one too. 
 The report comes from Mark Gurman, who has a good track record of digging up advance information on iPhone launches. Citing unnamed sources, he says that Apple is testing a screen resolution of 1704 x 960, a significant advance on the iPhone 5’s 1136 x 640 display. 
 The new model is expected to be noticeably larger than the one it replaces. The iPhone 5’s 4-inch screen is small compared with much of today's competition – for example the Sony Xperia Z2, which has a 5.2-inch display. 
 Previous leaks have suggested that the iPhone 6 will come in two sizes, with a 4.7-inch model being followed soon after by a version measuring 5.5 or 5.6 inches. 
 Until now, there had been little solid information about the new phone’s resolution, leading some to suggest that it would be left unchanged.  
 "Industry watchers have speculated that Apple could stretch the iPhone software’s interface and retain the iPhone 5s’s screen resolution of 1136 x 640," Gurman writes on  9to5Mac . “This approach would allow all iOS software and App Store apps to function normally on the iPhone 6 without work from developers. 
 However, the disadvantage would be a less sharp screen that "would fall below Steve Jobs’ somewhat arbitrary 300 pixels per inch definition of Retina". 
 With increasing competition from Samsung, HTC and Sony at the premium end of the smartphone market, Apple executives are unlikely to accept a reduction in display quality. 
  Time  describes the proposed new screen as "triple-resolution", based on a comparison with the original iPhone, and says it will give Apple an edge against its rivals. 
 "A resolution of 1704-by-960 would make for an increase in pixel density over current models and would allow Apple to take on the many larger Android phones that are already on the market," it says. 
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