A 2560×1440, Quad HD display for mobile phones? LG has us covered

LG has done the impossible. It’s created the highest resolution mobile screen ever, a 2560X1440 5.5-inch quad HD (QHD) display. The crazy-high resolution display isn’t destined for mobile phones anytime soon, but it’s real, so expect to see it in a LG Optimus G+++ or something nutty like that.

For LG, this is a “glimpse” at what is beyond full HD mobile screens. It gave us the world’s first full HD mobile phone last year with the LG Optimus Pro G, this years it’s going beyond. Yes, that sounds cliché and yes, every year tech gets better but a 4xHD display is something special and is the logical next step for all high-end smartphones.

LG said that the new display will reproduce even the most “delicate” of colours, will improve contrast and make content look more “life-like”. The pixels per inch (PPI) are 538, and this alone to for us tech junkies should mean the world. Samsung’s Galaxy S4 holds a record for the most squeezed in pixels on a commercially available phone at 441 PPI. For those who’ve clapped eyes on the S4, they can attest to the crisp display. With 538PPI, videos would trim the hair off our eyeballs.

The Quad HD display is also the “world’s thinnest” at 1.2mm. It’s a 12% reduction in size from LG’s most recent full HD display. This display, it’ll be brighter – LG’s promising 430 nits of brightness thanks to the new Low Temperature Poly Silicon (LTPS) substrate.

The very dull LG press release also said that the Quad HD panel will let us “enjoy a full view of PC-version web pages at a single glance without image distortion”. According to LG, full HD screens only display three-quarters of a proper-sized webpage. It’s all been a lie.