Galaxy S5 and other Samsung phones will have 560 ppi displays next year launches

Think the 441 ppi display on the Galaxy S4 is pretty stunning? Just wait until next year when Samsung plans to dazzle (and possibly confuse) your retinas with incredible 560 ppi WQHD panels. The 2560×1440 displays that Samsung says are on the way will pack nearly as many pixels (3.6 million vs. 4 million) into your smartphone as Apple managed to fit into the new MacBook Pro. Obviously the effect is slightly different at 13 or 15 inches than it will be in the 5-inch range. What’s perhaps even more amazing is that Samsung also told the audience at its 2013 Analyst Day that it plans on shipping 4K displays in their phones by 2015. That’s right. In less than two years the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note 5 will have twice the resolution of today’s 1080p models.

Looking back, though, it’s really just the way smartphones have been trending for the last couple of years. The Galaxy S2 arrived in the spring of 2011 with a humble 4-inch, 480×800 pixel display. The evolution to today’s 1080p displays was actually a slightly bigger leap than what’s coming. And while Samsung didn’t make any specific promises about flexible displays they did take the time to point out that they own 33% of all flexible display-related patents. In total, Samsung has around 10,000 display patents in its portfolio. Also coming next year from Samsung: 64-bit Exynos processors. They’ll play a very important role, too, since pushing all those extra pixels is going to require a decent amount of computing power.