Samsung Galaxy S3 specs - this is just ... WOW!

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superchunk said:

Same arguement is why do TVs need more than 1080p since you can't visually tell a difference any more? Its that all that is important?

You can't stop improving just because its good enough.

Improvements in that clarity and density provide more in depth and visual appeal for movies and video in motion etc. CPU and GPU will continue to double regardless if the screen advances or not. As it all pushes forward it also breaks out of its prime market to advance other markets.

Games pushing computers to advance so quickly have lead to what we have now in home PCs. Phones pushing limits now will assist the battery industry into improving technologies which in turn help electric cars and other products. Likewise, improving the OLED screens in these samsung screens improve the tech overall wich will result in larger OLED TVs coming out quicker at reduced costs.

We're not talking about good enough, we're talking about worse. A device with a 1080p screen that size is worse than a device with a 720p screen.

I can't believe how hard it is to explain this to you, but there's no such thing as a free lunch. You don't see any improvement, but you still pay real costs to get them. There are other things which can be done with that improved processor besides render more pixels. It can put more detailed textures on higher-polygon 3D objects on that 720p screen, or it can animate things at twice the framerate, or it can save your battery and use less power to render the same image.

And what the hell bearing does a 4.8" OLED screen have on a 48" TV screen? You're talking about completely different use cases and design parameters. Unless you're arguing that TVs need to have 450 pixels per inch (in which case, I give up on you), this screen will have absolutely no relevance for Samsung's TV business.