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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
Kevin Rose: iPad 2 announced in "next 3-4 weeks" -PC Magazine
Retina display (as Apple currently defines it) seems hard to believe. If the iPhone 4 is 960×640 on a 3.5" screen, wouldn't a similar pixel density on a 9.7" screen be ridiculously high resolution? (There should be math here, but I'm too lazy) I'm not saying they can't make a 2560x1920 or whatever resolution screen, but wouldn't it require more than a system-on-a-chip type graphics processor?
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Retina display is Apple's way of saying the pixels are too small to see with the naked eye. The resolution wouldn't have to end up being anything insane to fit their loose definition - getting up around 300dpi would be close enough to fit their description.
If Apple is in fact bumping screen resolution on the iPad, I don't fully understand their strategy. They have 3 screen resolutions now, the 3gs, the iPhone4, and the iPad, but iOS doesn't have any kind of resolution independence, nor is resolution independence all that useful for designing touch oriented interfaces on these widely differing platforms. So I think it would be huge headache for developers to have to support yet another platform in terms of screen size. (also it's not even screen size that's different, all three platforms have different aspect ratios)
It's also almost at the point where having a 4th spec gets confusing for the consumer, when Bob's iPad2 has an app, but they can't get it for their 1st gen iPad, etc.
Mostly, though, I'm hoping the iPad2 doesn't diverge wildly from the iPad1 since I paid a lot of money to be an early adopter, and would like to be at the leading edge for a while longer before I spend more cash
I don't want to be using a device that can't run all the apps that are coming out.