Sharp shows screen with 2560×1600 pixels for small high-end smartphones

The Japanese manufacturer Sharp has shown a 4.1″ screen with a resolution of 2560×1600 pixels. Manufacturers can use the display for small high-end smartphones. The highest resolution around that screen diagonal so far is the 1136×640 screen of the iPhone 5 -series.

The screen should be able to appear in smartphones in 2016, says the Japanese site Nikkei. The screen is an igzo LCD that Sharp made with ltps. The display has 736 pixels per inch: the screen with the highest pixel density is from the Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A with 575 pixels per inch, although that screen does not have three, but two sub-pixels per pixel. The LCD with the highest pixel density of a device that appeared on the market is the 5.5 “screen of, among others, the LG G3, with almost 538 pixels per inch.

Sharp’s display enables high-resolution smartphones in a small size for the first time. On the diagonal of the Sharp screen, 4.1″, no other screens with high resolutions can be found: there is a full-HD display at 4.5″ that is in use in a Japanese device.

It is unknown whether manufacturers will actually use the screen in smartphones. Sharp is one of the best-known suppliers of displays for smartphones. The manufacturer is also working on a 4k display for smartphones with approximately the same pixel density. It will be 6″ tall.