Pixel Insanity Continues: Here's the First Quad HD OLED Phone Screen

Though their importance is questionable, pixel counts in cellphones are on the rise. The first Quad HD phones — that would be devices with 2,560 x 1,440 resolution — launched back in October. Now a display maker is giving phone manufacturers a brand new way to build them.

AU Optronics, one of the biggest display makers in the world, has just unveiled an 5.7-inch AMOLED (active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) panel with Quad HD resolution. At that size, the pixel density is 513 pixels per inch (ppi)

The company says it's the world's highest resolution AMOLED display, although probably not for long; the blog OLED Info says others from Sharp, SEL and Samsung Display are coming very soon. Read more...