Tech explained: Here's how the iPhone 6's new, bigger screen will improve user experience

Without a doubt, the most important new features of the just-announced iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are their large displays. The more regularly-sized iPhone 6 will come with a 4.7" panel, while the significantly larger iPhone 6 Plus will feature a massive, 5.5" screen. But as you might have guessed, that's not all there is to these new displays. Apple has practically improved each and every aspect of its IPS LCD screens, not only on the hardware level, but also in terms of integrating them better with the iOS experience through some smart software features. Let take a deeper look at the various ways that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus' screens are going to improve user experience!

Size and resolution

First things first, the most obvious benefit users are going to get from having a larger screen on their iPhones is that all content will appear bigger and more comfortable to view. iOS, the mobile operating system powering all iPhones and iPads, is designed in a smart way, so that text and other small design elements appear large enough on mobile devices' relatively small screen sizes. But of course, having a larger display on your iPhone will make things even easier to read (the jump from 4" to 4.7" is quite substantial, let alone from 4" to the iPhone 6 Plus' 5.5 inches). Not only that, multimedia content like video and games will also be way more immersive on the bigger screens of the new iPhones, so if mobile gaming is your forte, or you tend to watch a lot of video, chances are the iPhone 6 will significantly enhance your experience.

Since display size has gone up with iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, a bump in resolution was also needed, in order to preserve the legibility and clarity if the displayed image. While the iPhone 5 and 5s had screen resolutions of 640 x 1136 pixels, the iPhone 6 brings those numbers to 750 x 1334 pixels, preserving the same pixel density of 326 ppi (pixels per inch). Meanwhile, the iPhone 6 Plus has an even higher resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels, delivering a pixel density of 401 ppi, meaning that things appearing on the screen will look even sharper and clearer on Apple's phablet. There isn't going to be much of a visible difference between the iPhone 6's 326 ppi and the iPhone 6 Plus' 401 ppi in terms of screen clarity - one will be able to see things a bit more clearly on the iPhone 6 Plus, if they examine the screen very closely and carefully, but that's rarely the case when it comes to real-life, normal usage.