Samsung Galaxy Note 5 may come with 4K dual-edge display

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/technology/story/samsung-galaxy-note-and-project-zen/1/436339.html

Right. Well, since apparently there's no such thing as enough pixels for anything regardless of how small it is how's about a 64K smart-watch next?

I dont know if they just became better at designing screens but I do notice a difference between the 1080p screens vs the 2k but I can't imagine there being a difference between the 2k and 4k screens

My Nexus 5 has enough pixels, why should I need more? My car doesn't need more than 4 wheels. My screens don't need more than 4 corners, wtf is happening with the race for pixels? Not worth it.

There's not meaningful differentiation occurring. The market is being commoditized, pushing out the high end (and high profit margin) devices. One way of keeping those devices in demand is to increase the "numbers" of the devices - screen pixels, camera pixels, RAM, processor speed, etc.

When you buy a device for $800, you expect it to be meaningfully different from the $400 device in the lesser category.

Not sure if this is something I'm going to need. Already feel like the 1440P on my Note 4 is overkill...

Would you even been able to notice the difference on a screen so small?

Don't really care about this in phones even my note 3 1080p is enough for me but for VR tech higher resolution high quality oled screens like this will prove beneficial so I'm glad there being made and pushing the technological limits in this department.

Pointless.

There's a limit to where it doesn't even become noticeable at all.

Sure, there'd be some level of difference in perceived clarity on a 40 inch screen or bigger, but not something in the palm of your hand.

Probably not nearly enough to justify the battery and performance drain.

@Wickerman777: Moved to the mobile forum.

That'll be good and inefficient.

I foresee a fail.

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S3. It's got a 720p screen and that is absolutely fine. Thing looks sharp to me. A friend of mine showed me his 1080p Windows phone and I didn't notice any difference with how the display looked. Perhaps if I had squinted and concentrated on it I might have but who uses their phone like that? The faster, newer chips in his phone don't give him any better performance cuz the extra power is wasted running stuff in 1080p. So now we're gonna have phones with 4X the res of 1080p? Better be some monstrous silicon in there to keep up with that.

I ain't saying I'm against advances in technology. I want to see stuff improve as much as anyone. But why not improve things in practical ways? Surely something as small as a phone or even a tablet needs no more pixels than 2 million (1080p). Even that is probably overkill but I'll give the pixel counters benefit of the doubt here and say OK to 1080p phones. But 4K? Seriously?! That's insanity. Imagine how much faster these phones would run if they weren't having to waste enormous amounts of resources drawing everything in absurd resolutions. Keep making the chips better, the cameras better, etc. But when it comes to resolution these companies already hit the ceiling of what is practical a year or two ago and should just leave that part alone.

Pretty much why I laugh at fandroids swearing 1080p phones with 6 inch screens are a must. Meanwhile, Samsungs phones are struggling to keep up in the graphics department when compared to lower resolution phones.

Glad Apple never engages in meaningless spec wars like the pixel race with the camera and resolution race for screens. Anything over the "Retina" display is hardly even noticeable unless you view your screen with a magnifying glass.