Samsung built a 5.5 inch 4K smartphone screen for VR

28 May, 2016
Remember when just a few short years ago, the smartphone industry was shifting from 720p (1280x720px) to 1080p (1920x1080px) displays and we thought: What for? We don’t need so much resolution just to read text and see pictures off the screen, right?

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  • Anish
  • YU8
  • 28 Oct 2016

Sony uses 1080p displays because the user can have a better battery life and z5p had 4k resolution on album and videos only thats great why would you want to have 4k everwhere it would just drain the battery and for YouTube app the z5p only shows 1080p but it upscales the resolution to 4k Samsung is just copiing and everyone is amazed

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    • Michael Fleming
    • x27
    • 15 Jul 2016

    AnonD-442781, 31 May 20164k has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU. Nothing. Y... moreYou are mistaken. every pixel is an output and the more outputs mean more complex logic equations that you rom, ram, cpu, controllers ect must handle. You will have a 96×65 pixel screen (only black pixel color) vs a 4096 x2160 screen with miltiple colors. so each pixel has many states to represent all colors. and with a the image refreshing at 120hz compared to nokias 30hz(guess), the processor would need to clock very quickly to print out the lines ~9 million pixels at that refresh rate and thats assuming the cpu can even handle the amount of bits a 4k would require

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      • Anonymous
      • Y1q
      • 13 Jul 2016

      AnonD-442781, 31 May 20164k has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU. Nothing. Y... moreThat's not true. Anything that raises the workload and heat output of the gpu will affect the thermal ceiling of the soc and cpu performance.

      Further, a lot of things as far as desktop composition are handled by the cpu on android because a lot of devices have graphics that are not ogl compatible and cannot be relied on.

      Saying the 4k won't affect the cpu would be true on the pc side but it is totally inaccurate on the smartphone end of things

        AnonD-442781, 31 May 2016That math doesn't make sense. If there are more pixels but ... moreAnywhere just what the 4K Amoled (diamond pentile) test result.
        By the way, the 4K is consump more graphic and CPU and always on is battery waste all of the time.

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          • AnonD-442781
          • pJm
          • 31 May 2016

          Dual heatpipes, 31 May 2016Anywhere just what the 4K Amoled (diamond pentile) test res... more4k has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU. Nothing.

          You could use an old Nokia display from 1990 and the CPU performance would still be the same.

            AnonD-442781, 31 May 2016That math doesn't make sense. If there are more pixels but ... moreAnywhere just what the 4K Amoled (diamond pentile) test result.
            By the way, the 4K is consump more graphic and CPU and always on is battery waste all of the time.

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              • AnonD-442781
              • pJm
              • 31 May 2016

              Dual heatpipes, 30 May 20164K Amoled will use much more battery, because it is a displ... moreThat math doesn't make sense. If there are more pixels but the size of each pixel is smaller and the overall size of the display is the same, then the amount of light needed is the same.

              Anyway, Samsung have proven that they can increase the resolution and do it without making the display itself use more power. When Samsung moved to 2k their displays were actually slightly more efficient due to increases in efficiency. So even if the same isn't true for 4k, we can still expect them to do a much better job than LCD displays.

                AnonD-442781, 29 May 2016Your post makes no sense and doesn't address anything, and ... more4K Amoled will use much more battery, because it is a display each pixel is a led light, the more pixels density increase the more power using, so the endurance must be a problem, unless they copy the theory from Z5P. PLUS ,Z5P have upscaling tech better than wasting the battery.

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                  • AnonD-5197
                  • sfN
                  • 30 May 2016

                  Sagittarius, 30 May 2016Oh really? No one has? looooooooooool hilarious dude.Ya. You're the only one going ape about Samsung building 4k AMOLED screen.

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                    • AnonD-442781
                    • pJm
                    • 30 May 2016

                    Sagittarius, 30 May 2016"Sony's 4k wasn't battery efficient and was only used for v... moreIts just natural progression. If you read my last post about 2k properly, you'd realise nobody cares who does it first. If HTC decide to make a 4k phone then nobody would think they're copying Samsung who had the 'brilliant' idea to actually release a phone with enough pixels to enjoy vr. Its common sense. But them again HTC would probably use Samsung displays for that.

                    But anyway, that's not how it works. They just add a bit of Amoled to a 4k display, like adding salt to a dish. Right? Lol.

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                      • AnonD-442781
                      • pJm
                      • 30 May 2016

                      AnonD-536465, 30 May 2016you are obviously a new born or someone just released from ... moreLol. How does it feel to act so smart when you're so wrong?

                      The Sony z5 premium ONLY used 4k when using the native gallery app. It wasn't used with vr. Sony doesn't have a vr app. Other than that the phone was 1080p like all their other phones. That's why people call it a gimmick.

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                        • AnonD-536465
                        • UNg
                        • 30 May 2016

                        AnonD-442781, 29 May 2016Sony was never big on vr lol. Samsung has pretty much pione... moreyou are obviously a new born or someone just released from maximum prison
                        have you heard of xperia z premium? try google that.

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                          • Sagittarius
                          • UD{
                          • 30 May 2016

                          AnonD-5197, 30 May 2016No one's going crazy over this let alone going crazy AF.Oh really? No one has? looooooooooool hilarious dude.

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                            • AnonD-5197
                            • 86u
                            • 30 May 2016

                            Sagittarius, 30 May 2016Or say adding 4k on their amoled and people went crazy af. ... moreNo one's going crazy over this let alone going crazy AF.

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                              • Sagittarius
                              • UD{
                              • 30 May 2016

                              AnonD-442781, 29 May 2016'Just adding amoled'? Lol. You clearly don't know enough ab... more"Sony's 4k wasn't battery efficient and was only used for viewing pictures and videos using Sony's native gallery app, it wasn't used for vr which is the only place you'd need so many pixels. The very definition of a gimmick."

                              This is what exactly the same thing happened to Apple. People criticizes Apple for enhancing or improving something that has been introduced before. Isnt it what samsung is doing now? Then how samsung be different from the others?

                              Since you didn't liked how it was said, then let me rephrase.
                              "Wow, Samsung is making an AMOLED 4k screen! This is innovation!"

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                                • Sagittarius
                                • UD{
                                • 30 May 2016

                                AnonD-5197, 30 May 2016"just adding amoled" looooooooooool hilarious dude.Or say adding 4k on their amoled and people went crazy af. Really HIGHlarious...dude! Ha-ha-ha

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                                  • AnonD-5197
                                  • sfN
                                  • 30 May 2016

                                  Sagittarius, 29 May 2016Sony has the 4k thingy last year. And Sammy is just jumping... more"just adding amoled" looooooooooool hilarious dude.

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                                    • AnonD-442781
                                    • pJm
                                    • 29 May 2016

                                    Roughdaimond, 29 May 2016As usual Samsung copying Sony especially lately with S7 sma... moreSony was never big on vr lol. Samsung has pretty much pioneered that, and now google is stepping in and will make it bigger. Does sony even have a vr headset? Presumably not since the highest resolution they have is 1080p.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • wry
                                      • 29 May 2016

                                      Roughdaimond, 29 May 2016As usual Samsung copying Sony especially lately with S7 sma... moreGuess you didnt read the Xperia X review.

                                      Sony removed small apps.

                                      Looks like Samsung has it now. LOL.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • wry
                                        • 29 May 2016

                                        Tann Hauser, 29 May 2016Aha, it must be so,... :-P Speculating mode on ha?Oh no, it just the facts :-)