The quality of pictures is measured in pixels microscopic points of color per square inch.
The greater number of pixels per square inch means a substantially higher screen quality.
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But app developers found their existing code insufficient to populate all the newly available pixels.
Top-of-the-line digital cameras, so called megapixel cameras, capture images of a million or more pixels.
Top-of-the-line smartphones last year mostly maxed out at about 400, 000 pixels (480 x 800 was common).
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Researchers at the Lincoln Laboratory reckon that 1m pixels should be possible within two years.
Movies played at a pleasingly high resolution on the small (320 x 240 pixels).
Standard 35mm film is capable to resolution equal to 20 million pixels or more.
X3 sensor consists of 3.5m pixels (3.5 megapixels) and will appear in a high-end consumer camera.
And the iPad mini has the same number of pixels as the iPad 2.
LG's screen offers 8 million pixels per frame, four times the resolution of 1080p high-definition displays.
It can, for instance, pick up differences in the shading of pixels from different samples.
It has a paper white display. 25% more contrast. 212 pixels per inch. 62% more pixels.
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Snow, it turns out, animates really well in 500 pixels and a limited palette of colors.
Image quality isn't about the number of pixels as much as it is about pixel size.
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And larger pixels capture more photons something that's especially useful when lighting conditions are poor.
Directly above that, the LCD section, which houses the red-, green-, and blue-colored pixels of the display.
Featuring a 213 DPI display, the Cybook Odyssey HD display has 62% more pixels than current e-readers.
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Well for starters, relying upon vendor, ad network, tier 1 or otherwise, data via pixels is suicide.
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The light-sensitive area on each CCD detector measures 45.0mm by 59.0mm, encompassing 1, 966 pixels by 4, 500 pixels.
Bigger image sensors are better because they allow the pixels embedded in their surface to be larger.
For cellphones equipped with cameras, the light-capturing sensor chip is a matrix of 1, 000-by-1, 000 pixels or more.
Bigger pixels also emit more current, allowing their signal to swamp the electrical noise in the system.
The key thing is the size of the sensor, not the millions of pixels on your plate.
This new mobility gives us license to create new and better apps and advertising best-suited to smartphone pixels.
It's a 3.8-inch transflective display with a resolution of 480 pixels by 320 pixels and with 65, 000 colors.
Like the lander, the Pathfinder would not be much larger than two pixels in the most resolute images.
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With pixels on a screen, everyone in the room sees the same dot of white, red or blue.
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