Comments on: iPad 2 to have 2048×1536 resolution?

By: fhantompain

fhantompain — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:54:57 +0000

Well, I’m gonna wait till ipad 3 comes with retina display =]. after u, lads

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:55:18 +0000

Actually I think the quality of the screen now is already great! I’m looking much more forward to the camera’s

By: Bone_Apart216

Bone_Apart216 — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:14:04 +0000

thanks for clearing that one up, now I can shut my a-hole cousin up for his apple worship. He loves that thing more than me I guarantee.

By: aquaman22

aquaman22 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:34:58 +0000

why wouldn’t they have the “Retina Display” on the new iPad?? that makes no sense, it’s suppose to be next generation technology and they’re all about proving themselves as the best. I have an iPhone 4, and a macbook pro, I’m not interested in the iPad as its the same as an iphone just bigger.

By: rak33n

rak33n — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:20:29 +0000

we will find out at apple confrence and the ios 5 will be announced

By: LZIM

LZIM — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:17:45 +0000

Apple’s part of the market wouldn’t be fragmented by a lower dpi on iPad2 than a straight up scale up of the iPhone’s retina display. The big question is what applications need to have a higher resolution for an Apple tablet, when none are blockbusters so far. I still don’t really understand what the core iPad2 market is, and no competing phone makers are making their tablets with higher DPI (to exceed photo print), probably also for a lack of demand. And it doesn’t seem like the aspect ratio is changing [for iPad 2] so wide screen movies are out (1200 pixels resolution and higher is out), HD IPTV over wireless is out for the same reason. Apps and games remain, none need high resolution due to performance limitations. All would need more processing performance than iPad 2 could possibly provide and remain affordable and cool running. Also iPad 2 having a smaller screensize than iMac, with a higher resolution it would make iMac the DPI underdog (as ludicrous as that sounds given their already very high resolution compared to the average PC, nevermind a mobile device).

The only reason to expect iPad 2 to have a higher DPI is that it is held at the same distance as the phone, but not necessarily. You hold your phone closer while you can hold your iPad or tablet like a book or magazine. Anything higher than 200 DPI would still be overkill.