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Originally Posted by Donatom3

No doubt the PPI is better, but no matter how much higher the PPI is you can't make the buttons, or on screen keyboard any bigger for my fingers. I used to be in printing and there are some misconceptions about PPI. First of all PPI is very relative to how close you are to the subject. So with a smaller screen you would theoretically have it closer to your face negating a portion of the extra PPI.

Here is a real life example most people don't know. Billboards can get away with being printed at 25 dpi, in fact you'd rarely find a billboard being printed at more than 75 dpi. This is because as the distance between the print/screen and viewer increase the dpi can be decreased without being readily apparent. Now most print media you see is at minimum 300 dpi. We're talking over a 1000% increase in dpi, yet to you the billboard will appear to be as high resolution as the magazine you're holding.

The same holds true for jumbotrons. So if we do the numbers the iphone's dpi is 32% more dense than the Evo's, but because of the smaller size to get the image viewed to look the same size you have to hold it closer to your face thus negating a good portion of this pixel density. Why do you think Computer monitors were at such high resolutions years and years before regular TV's. It's because you are viewing them much closer.

well said.....