{"id":640,"date":"2008-11-16T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=640"},"modified":"2010-07-19T01:18:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T06:18:38","slug":"moogly-p0wns-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"moogly pwns the iPhone!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a chance last night to play with my friend Beth Matuszek&#8217;s iPhone, while she played with my G1.  I&#8217;ve been blogging that I think the G1 is serious competition for the iPhone,  but I must say I expected the iPhone to look better than the G1 when Beth and I did side-to-side testing of parallel functions, like browsing the Instapundit blog page.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t. In theory the G1 and iPhone have the same resolution, but the cruel truth is that the G1&#8217;s display is superior &#8211; stronger luminance contrasts, better colors, generally crisper.  It&#8217;s not a subtle difference, it really jumped out at both of us.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the shocking part, though. Beth has a first-generation iPhone that&#8217;s about a year old; some of the above differences might be simple phosphor decay.  The shocking part is that Android does font rasterization and anti-aliasing better.  The difference is really noticeable on small fonts; compared to the G1 the iPhone has an obtrusive case of jaggies.  Hello?  <em>Hello?<\/em> Apple?  You&#8217;re supposed to be the world-beaters at this sort of thing; what have you been smoking lately?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Mystery partly and perhaps entirely solved.  The physical sizes of the G1 and iPhone display are different.  The iPhone&#8217;s is substantially larger, which means it has lower DPI. At the same font size in millimeters, therefore, the edges of a font glyph on the iPhone are doomed to look grainier unless the antialiasing is really dramatically better &#8212; which apparently it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a chance last night to play with my friend Beth Matuszek&#8217;s iPhone, while she played with my G1. I&#8217;ve been blogging that I think the G1 is serious competition for the iPhone, but I must say I expected the iPhone to look better than the G1 when Beth and I did side-to-side testing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=640\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">moogly pwns the iPhone!?!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}