Designing for Iphone

[Dave]

Hi Guys,

Has anyone designed for iPhones here before?

I think the res was 320px wide by xxx px

ANyway, I designed the graphics, yet when they were uploaded onto the phone, the 320 pixel wide graphic was tiny on the screen, any ideas why? It was like it was scaled down by the phone for some reason.

I'm only designing the graphics, we have a developer putting it together, did she do something wrong somewhere or should i make the graphic bigger?

[Templarian]

You have to compensate for DPI. Everything should look large on a normal monitor.

This is way more apparent for the new 800x480, or even 320x480 Palm Pre screen which have a higher DPI.

You should be testing your graphics on the same DPI to get an idea. Also the iPhone's screen is 320x480

[jimhere]

I just noticed Templarian's icon and footer. I guess he knows his Palm resolution.

[Dave]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes the iPhone is 320x480 , I have designed a graphic 320 wide, but when tested on the iphone it appears like 100 pixels wide.

Why would that be?

[Templarian]

Oh, you must be just scaling it. Double check your code. And if this is for the browser, double check the scale factor.

[Dave]

Cool, thank you :)