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		lewispb on Sept 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display 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.

ardacinar on Sept 11, 2014 [–]

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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