I am not a Verizon fan or a fan of their plans and have never had their service, but given that broadcast OTA tv is 720p, which is still more than acceptably sharp on 60 + in screens (most 32 in tv's are 720p), asking for
1080p on a phone screen seems like a technical nit pick.
Not exact matches
It has a 5 - inch HD (720p)
screen, which should be serviceable, though not as crisp as the Full HD (
1080p)
screens that most of the
phones on this list boast.
Nice
phone but ill stick with my note 2, i think the note 2 is best of both worlds for me, 720p vs
1080p on a
phone, even though i love eye candy 720p is more then enough even with a 5.5 inch
screen, inturn you get a better performing
phone and better battery life without having to give up to much pretty, ill take the ladder of.
HTC has been looking to get in
on the action with the Droid DNA, a quad - core
phone with a 5 inch
1080p HD
screen.
LG Nexus 4 runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS, sporting a 4.7 - inch LCD
screen (1280 x 768 pixels), powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with quad - core processor at 1.5 GHz, 2 GB RAM to keep things running, an 8 megapixel main camera with LED flash to record
1080p HD videos, 1.2 MP front - facing camera for forwarding video chats, 8 GB
on - board storage, NFC capability, micro USB 2.0, Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11 Wi - Fi a / b / g / n, access to Google Play Store, a whole host of the Google services, 2,100 mAh battery to keep power everything and a whole host of the regular features of an Android
phone.
And just like with the standard S5, everything
on the
phone looks great, thanks to the 5.1 - inch
1080p Super AMOLED
screen.
For example, though this
phone has a huge 5 - inch
screen with an incredibly detailed
1080p screen, HTC hasn't updated its Sense UI to let you place more than 16 icons (4 x 4)
on each of the five homescreens.
Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL
phones pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor and 4 GB of RAM as well as running a FHD (
1080p)
screen on the Pixel and a QHD (2K)
screen on the Pixel XL.
The Z Play's 5.5 - inch
1080p super AMOLED
screen doesn't have the resolution of the Galaxy S7 Edge (2560 x 1440), butit's
on a par with similarly priced
phones such as the OnePlus 3.
The Idol 3's 5.5 - inch
1080p screen, meanwhile, is about as good as we've seen
on a budget
phone.
The UI scales as you'd expect, but the
1080p support could certainly lead to more clutter
on the Windows
Phone Start
Screen.
Microsoft is currently improving Windows
Phone to support devices like the Bandit, with extra changes for
1080p displays, and an additional column of Live Tiles
on the Start
screen.
Microsoft's latest Windows
Phone 8 update, known as General Distribution 3, can be seen running
on the device with an additional column of Live Tiles
on the Start
Screen for
1080p resolution support.
Fortunately, LG corrected those issues with a much better
1080p panel
on the G Flex 2, allowing the subtle effect of a wraparound
screen to really shine through when the
phone was used in landscape.
Expect beautiful and super sharp images from the dual camera setup, which look great
on the
1080p screen, among other great features the
phone has to offer.
You'll be viewing all that
on the
phone's 5.2 - inch
1080p LCD display — a good - looking
screen by any standards, though it obviously doesn't match the insane pixel density that Samsung and LG are pursuing with their latest devices.
The Axon Pro also shoots 4K video at 30 frames per second; a clip I recorded in that resolution showed similarly vivid colors and sharp details, at least
on a
1080p monitor and the
phone's own quad - HD
screen.
It has the usual Windows
Phone hardware buttons up front, 5 - inch
1080p screen with three mid-sized tiles
on the start
screen.
1080p screens have been
on Android
phones for a year, but now Windows has them, too.
In my two weeks of testing, I regularly saw over six hours of
screen -
on time, thanks to the
phone's power - efficient chipset,
1080p display, and the software optimizations of Oreo.
This is contrary to the 5.0 - inch Full HD
1080p display
screen that is found
on the OnePlus X, yet the
phone has a mere 2525mAh battery unit.
Sony has also swapped out that latter
phone's 5.5 - inch 4K HDR display for a 5.2 - inch
1080p screen on the XZ1.
Both groups will make valid points:
on one hand, the Pixel XL features a quad HD
screen while the iPhone 7 Plus is only
1080p, which means Google's
phone has far more pixels to power.
That 5.2 - inch
1080p display is the key this
phone's day - plus battery life, and we went a day - and - a-half with significant
screen -
on time before the battery gave out completely.
The display
screen could also remain at 5.5 inches and if recent benchmarks
on AnTuTu are anything to go by, the
phone will come with a
1080p resolution, 6 GB RAM and 64 GB of storage.
The Geekbench listing doesn't reveal much else, other than the presence of Android 7.1.1, but we have come across that model number before, as it previously popped up
on a Polish website, which claimed the
phone has a
1080p screen and runs Android O (so a different version to what's listed in this benchmark).
TechRadar's take: The Sony Xperia X2 will probably stick with a
1080p screen again, but some rumors suggest Sony is finally pushing up the resolution of its
phones, and we've seen evidence of that
on the XZ Premium, so QHD is possible, though that's more likely to be used for the Sony Xperia XZ 2.
Honestly, anything beyond a
1080p screen on a 5 - inch (ish)
phone is overkill, but it's hard to complain about a gorgeous
screen.
Screen: Sony always has excellent screen technology on its phones, and while it's only 1080p the quality is still
Screen: Sony always has excellent
screen technology on its phones, and while it's only 1080p the quality is still
screen technology
on its
phones, and while it's only
1080p the quality is still high.
You simply can't get away with 720p
screens on cheap
phones anymore, and we're glad Lenovo opted for a
1080p screen on the Moto G4.
There are no two ways about it,
1080p screens on small
phones are just the bee's knees.