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Can't we just admit that the iPhone's 320x480 pixel display was getting kinda old and was due to an upgrade? Yes more pixels = things looks sharper. Other phones had better displays for a while, now the iPhone has a great one too. I think the display upgrade was kind of obvious for the iPhone4 and have been saying this since last year - it's cool and all but don't hype it into oblivion.

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Other phones have had better resolution, but they have never increased the definition of the interface elements themselves. Those "better" screens just made everything smaller and provided more room for stuff.

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Apparently I was wrong on this point. Android does have some support for resolution independence, but most apps are not built for random pixel densities and therefor do not look stunning.

Please point to some concrete examples of this... Screenshots?

Bullshit. Android does exactly the same thing.

This is the kind of lack of civility I'd like to see less of on Hacker News. Pointing out someone is wrong is probably enough. It feels good to shout bullshit at someone, but lowers the level of discourse and also makes it more acceptable for people to speak and behave trollishly.

This is a level of negligence that is beyond just being accidentally wrong. It would have taken less than 2 seconds for the author of the article to check whether Android has resolution independent ui. Instead they chose to mislead everyone who reads hackernews.

I really don't have any patience for the 5 minute write -> post -> submit cycle that a lot of the crap submissions on hackernews have, and I think it warrants some vitriol.

My current Windows Mobile (!!) phone has 4x the number of pixels of my previous WinMo phone and all the elements are the same physical size but rendered with more pixels. If Microsoft has done it, on their phones, you know it's as far from novel as you can get.

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