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Re:The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display by lewispb on Thursday September 11, 2014 @03:51AM (#8301366)
Actually no. The more pixels the screen has the more energy it requires to drive those pixels and so worse battery life. So by having a lower resolution screen and scaling down to fit that screen battery life is improved.
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Re:The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display by ardacinar on Thursday September 11, 2014 @04:22AM (#8301451)
The alternative talked about here is not having the physical screen resolution of 2208x1242 but rather just rendering at 1080p without scaling down.
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