Its biggest feature is the screen, which is even more detailed than the 4K display that is the standard for very high resolution screens.
In a recent report, brokerage firm Macquarie said it expected HTC to focus on superphones, with high resolution screens and fast processors, for the high-end, while offering more stylish mid- and low-end models to non-US markets.
Luckey insists that today, the various necessary ingredients are available and affordable: high-powered miniature computing, highly detailed 3-D synthetic environments, high resolution screens, and high-precision motion tracking.
They also have big, high resolution screens, and mice.
Touchscreens, combined with high resolution screens with very high pixel-per-inch counts, have conspired to give device users very different expectations around what software should feel like in use.
Adobe's Touch Workspaces are new UI tools for Illustrator and Photoshop that were introduced in the CC 2014 update of those applications, providing a friendly interface for touch devices with high resolution screens, like the Microsoft Surface Pro 3.
A device with high resolution screen but without high-resolution GPU and OS capabilities is like a soldier driving a powerful tank but using a sword to fight.
Dell's latest ultrabook is squarely aimed at Apple's MacBook Pro with a better-than-retina high resolution screen and aluminium body – a Windows MacBook killer.
