"The [2.8"] display truly looks larger than you might guess. The QVGA resolution stays the same and is adequate for providing great picture quality. ". It may seem like this statement is from another century, but it's just under 10 years old - from our very own Nokia N95 8GB review. And you can kinda see where we were coming from - the average screen in 2007 was 2.3" in diagonal and had less than 84,582 pixels at 171ppi density. And it got us curious so we decided to dig through our database and see how screens evolved through the years. We picked the 50 most popular phones for each year...
Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/counterclockwise_increasing_the_resolution-news-26065.php
