Rumor: Galaxy S10 display pixel density to exceed 600 PPI
The rumor mill doesn’t usually start spinning at full speed for the next Samsung Galaxy S flagship so many months before the current year’s Galaxy Note flagship is due. But, with the Galaxy S10 set to mark the tenth anniversary of Android’s most popular smartphone lineup, it’s not too surprising that we’re already seeing numerous reports about the device. Some of these rumors are often about a feature that Samsung reportedly isn’t going to be offering with the Galaxy Note 9, which is an in-display fingerprint sensor. But today’s titbit comes straight out of left field: According to leakster Ice universe, the Galaxy S10 could have a display with a pixel density exceeding 600 PPI.
High Galaxy S10 pixel density rumored
With a resolution of 2960×1440 pixels (WQHD+), the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ sport pixel densities of 570 and 530 PPI respectively. The next popular display resolution after WQHD is UHD/4K, or 3840×2160 pixels. If one were to apply that resolution to the 6.2-inch Galaxy S9+ display, they would get a pixel density of around 710 PPI. Now, we would be remiss if we didn’t say this particular rumor isn’t very believable, unless Samsung has decided it either wants the Galaxy S10 to fold out into a tablet, thinks virtual reality is important enough to give users 4K resolution for the Gear VR, is considering increasing the screen sizes on both models, or just thinking of equipping the Galaxy S10 with a 4K display to make it stand out.
Samsung, right now, makes its flagship smartphones run at Full HD+ (2220×1080 pixels) out of the box. So a jump to a 4K display mostly makes sense if the Galaxy S10 display will run at 4K resolution only when connected to a Gear VR, or if Samsung wants to offer a sharper experience inside some apps, such as the gallery (which is what Sony does). Samsung could also adopt a non-standard resolution between WQHD and 4K. Not something Google (and developers) would be happy about, as the non-standard resolution would be an outlier among the accepted resolutions in the Android ecosystem, and a non-standard higher resolution just for the sake of it would serve no purpose.
Which brings us to the possibility that Samsung wants the Galaxy S10 to run at WQHD+ by default instead of Full HD+, which, again, would mean the device will switch to 4K resolution only for the Gear VR and perhaps a few proprietary Samsung apps. Yet, unless we hear about the company doing something new with the size or form factor of the Galaxy S10, a 600+ PPI display sounds rather impractical and unnecessary.
That’s the very nature of these early rumors, though, that we have to be skeptical when we hear them and play the usual game of waiting for the next big rumor to come along. But there’s no reason we can’t have a discussion, so let us know your thoughts on a 600+ PPI Galaxy S10 display by leaving a comment!
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What?? The pixel density doesn’t matter a damn as regards the operating system. LOLOL. Why would Google even care about it? This makes no logical sense whatsoever. Many phones have had non standard screens and pixel densities. That has absolutely NO bearing on the OS.
Non-standard screens were a staple for nokia for many years.
Recently I seen atari updated rct touch to support higher res. devices though the way the camera is angled it still requres alot of unessary movement
It was about time! I’ve been waiting for this resolution bump up for 2 years now. I think that, for VR, 4K resolution is basic for a decent quality. Although a battery bump up to 4000+mAh would be mandatory as well for this to work.
The Android ecosystem doesn’t has any restrictions for resolutions, because the scaling factor is dependend on the dpi value, which is defined in the build.prop (and NOT by the real pixel density of the display). All multiples of 80 for low resolutions and 160 for high resolutions (up to 640 until now) are defined in Android, so they are perfect to match the default graphics without any scaling. Let me explain this: If your build.prop value is set to 640 dpi, xxxhdpi (which is defined for 640 dpi) graphics get loaded and displayed in their native resolution. Now, if your… Read more »
Ah yes, I did know that and read up on it, but like you said, it seems it can be a problem with high DPIs if the layouts aren’t properly categorized.
Yes please! I very rarely use the GEAR VR… It actually has pretty cool content. But videos and most apps are REALLY BLURRY! they need to up the quality of VR content – or rather, higher density pixels on the phone
How many people actually use wqhd+ on their s8 or s9?
I bet majority just stick with the fhd+ to save battery, let the phone run faster and free up ram memory
And that’s just the knowledgeable folks who have an idea that the max resolution isn’t enabled by default. The majority are the average consumers who use their phones as is out of the box. The same goes for 4K video, which the geeks think is absolutely necessary while most people have no clue the video is being recorded at Full HD by default on every device, partly because of storage limitations.
It’s funny how you can mention the majority just use FHD in this case but when it comes to android updates almost daily there are a post from you guys telling Samsung is behind but here you don’t mention the mejority don’t care if they have Android O or P.
WQHD+ all the time… What’s the point of having the best display if you’re not going to utilise it. Battery life between FHD+ and WQHD+ is minimal anyway. 4K @60FPS never looked soo good!
I’m hoping for IR blaster, quad speakers and LED disco lights all over the case