Lab Tests: Display – iPhone 3GS
It came with a 3.5-inches TFT capacitive touchscreen display, resolution of 320 x 480 pixels (~165 ppi pixel density). While tiny at today’s scale, it was considered as-sharp and color poppin’ in 2009. This could display 16M colors using multi-touch gestures; pinch-to-zoom and swipe interactions were smoother than they had ever been up to that point.
Brightness levels in lab tests reached about 480 nits, so certainly readable enough outdoors that you can take the tiny little projector outside (though direct sunlight causes glare reflecting off the glossy glass.) Resisted the above example for its era, but it couldn’t escape looking pretty grey next to a modern OLED panel when showing blacks. The viewing angles were decent, though some colour shift was noticeable when the phone is tilted.
The iPhone 3GS display also includes an oleophobic (finger-oil-repelling) coating to minimize fingerprint smudge, a very nice change versus the much more greasy-feeling iPhone 3G, and touch responsiveness was great along with the speedier processor—the screen felt really quite fluid for swiping, tapping… you know what we mean.
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