Why do more and more tablets give up the screen ratio of 16:9?
Recently, I found an interesting phenomenon: now more and more tablet computers are giving up the ratio of 16:9. Apple's iPad has always been 4:3, which goes without saying, but now many Android tablets have started to use 4:3 screens.
After Xiaomi released the 4:3 Xiaomi tablet, Nokia also released the 4:3 Nokia N 1 (labeling machine). Both tablets have the same resolution as the iPad, which is 2048x 1536. Is this just a coincidence? In fact, things are far from simple.
First, 16:9 is not the real golden ratio.
Before saying everything, it is necessary to correct a long-rumored saying that 16:9 is not the real golden ratio, but a slogan shouted by merchants to save costs. For the same 8-inch screen, 16:9 saves 13% of materials compared with 4:3, and 16: 10 saves 6%.
Because the limit field of vision of human eyes is a rectangle similar to 16:9, businesses are speculating on this concept. The aesthetic golden ratio is 1.6 18 or 0.6 18. Compared with 16:9, in fact 16: 10 is the closest to the golden ratio.
On the other hand, the ratio of 16: 10 is the most comfortable for human eyes, because16:10 ≈15: 9 has a shorter visual field than 16:9, so it is unnecessary for human eyes. On the contrary, 16:9 is equivalent to squeezing the limit of eye attention. Watching the screen for a long time is very tiring, and friends who use the computer for a long time should feel it.
Second, what screen ratio is the most suitable?
What is the most suitable proportion of flat plates? In fact, this should be discussed in different situations. If you like to play games and watch videos, 16:9 screen is full and has no black edges, so it looks very comfortable. If you like reading and looking at web pages, then 4:3 is more suitable, because this display area is large.
If you play games and watch web pages at the same time, the Android tablet must be 16: 10, because many Android applications, especially game applications, are 16:9, and the 4:3 screen makes the picture very distorted. 16: 10 has the greater advantage that there are fewer black edges when watching movies, and the horizontal screen height is not too narrow when watching web pages.
It is precisely for this reason that almost all Win8 tablets and Win8/Android dual-system tablets now use 16: 10 screen, and the resolution is generally 1280x800, 1920x 1200. Because this ratio can take into account a variety of needs such as playing games, watching movies, vertical screen reading, and web browsing.
Third, the 4:3 ratio of Android tablet is the point of no return.
Flat panel is different from mobile phone, and the screen ratio has a great influence on the whole panel, which is wider at 4:3 and longer at 16:9. Back to the beginning of the article, many Android tablets have begun to learn from Apple's 4:3 screen, but is this really good?
Before answering this question, let's look at a case. Millet flat adopts the ratio of 4:3. Although the marketing is sufficient and Xiaomi has many fans, it has been tepid since its listing. In a company's sales list, glory tablet (16: 10), which was hardly advertised before, once ranked in the top three, and the sales volume of Xiaomi tablet was devastated. This is not a small rumor, but an ironclad fact.
It is true that the 4:3 screen has a larger visual area and is more suitable for business users. For example, when many enterprises project PPT, the display ratio is basically 4:3. The software interface on Windows is also based on the 4: 3 standard screen.
But the problem is that the Android tablet is neither a Windows computer nor a 4:3 software, and the chances of making PPT on the Android tablet and then projecting it are even slim. On the contrary, because of the ratio of 4:3, the screen width is very wide, which is inconvenient to hold with one hand.
Apple's iPad is 4:3, but thanks to the good software ecosystem of the appstore, there is basically no need to worry about software problems. On the other hand, Android has almost no software designed for Android tablets. If it weren't for the openness and software compatibility of the Android platform, the Android tablet would probably end up like Windows RT
Therefore, it is very undesirable for Android tablet manufacturers to blindly imitate Apple iPad to engage in 4:3, which is also the reason for the bleak sales of Xiaomi tablet. Because 16:9 and 16: 10 are close to mobile phones, the good news is that more and more softwares are adapting to Apad. If you insist on pushing the 4:3 screen at this time, it is a dead end.