Retina Display? Really, Apple?

This "feature" of the upcoming iPhone4 is way overrated. All that was done was they doubled the horizontal and vertical pixel count of the previous iPhone. This resulted in a display that has 4x the resolution of the previous iPhone. That is, 960x640.

While this is impressive, it's not as magical as Apple makes it sounds. Most smartphones for the past couple of years have had WVGA screens (800x480). You'd be hard-pressed to find someone with eyesight good enough to perceive individual pixels on WVGA displays.

The increase in display resolution was not a surprising move by Apple. The previous resolution was quite pitiful. But only Apple can come up with a term such as "Retina display" as if it's some sort of new tech.

It's not! All they did was improved the screen resolution while maintaining the same 3.5inch screen size! The sad thing is that people will believe in this "Retina display" technology. When they go into a store and ask a sales about a non-Apple product, they'll say "Does this have a Retina display?"

OMFG...

Edit: This is in regards to the 1st commenter. I understand why they're calling it the "Retina display" but I don't understand why they have to call it anything at all. It's not new tech. It's not like we've gotten to the point where we just couldn't increase pixel density any further. Other than price and practicality, there was nothing to stop people from creating a display with 300+ dpi pixel density. Back in 2007, the Toshiba Protege G900 was released with a pixel density of 313dpi.

Conclusion: I praise Apple for releasing a commercial device with 326dpi pixel density. But I despise them for flaunting it as if it's something new that they invented.

(Are we going to have to come up with a new term everytime someone increases the pixel density beyond 326 going forward?)