in your inability to be reasonable, you forgot
4) You bought an iPad mini because it works for you and don't really care if the next revision has a retina display because that wasn't important to you.
which is the category i fall under.
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in your inability to be reasonable, you forgot
4) You bought an iPad mini because it works for you and don't really care if the next revision has a retina display because that wasn't important to you.
which is the category i fall under.
The can't. There is no way to scale existing apps to different resolutions. Anything else than a 2x (or 4x) scaling is impossible (well, it's technically possible but it would look terrible). Why do you think did they do the iPhone 5 the way they did? They wanted to make the screen bigger but they could not increase the resolution in both directions.
At some point when production capacity will be available, Apple will move to some flavor of OLED , e.g. AMOLED. OLED has no backlight so it can be thinner, plus on average content brightness it is more power efficient: perfect for mobile devices.
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My wife would much prefer an ipad mini under the tree next week than a rumor of an ipad mini retina coming who knows when. Not sure how you even wrap a rumor.
Not possible?
I am not a technician.
But please can someone explain, how it is possible that apple can get a 1136x640 in a small and thin device like an iPod touch or an iPhone 5 with bettter SOC and more memory and a very small battery? And gsm electronics(iPhone 5).
And this wouldn't t be possible in a device that is 3,5 x the size(roughly) than this new iPod touch or iPhone 5?
Why would this be impossible?
The battery could also be 3,5 x the size of an iPhone or iPod touch.
If you 4 iPod touches together, they will still work, the screens will not work as one unit, but you get the same footprint as an ipad mini with 4 LEDs , 4 a5 or a6 chips, microphones, etc. and this is possible.( not practical and i just state this as an example)
An oppo 5 with a 5 inch 1920x1080p screen is possible right now. So an 8 inch 2048x1536 isn' t?
I think it is possible. It is just expensive and difficult to manufacture. But technically impossible?
No it isn't ......
I am not a technician.
But please can someone explain, how it is possible that apple can get a 1136x640 in a small and thin device like an iPod touch or an iPhone 5 with bettter SOC and more memory and a very small battery? And gsm electronics(iPhone 5).
And this wouldn't t be possible in a device that is 3,5 x the size(roughly) than this new iPod touch or iPhone 5?
Why would this be impossible?
The battery could also be 3,5 x the size of an iPhone or iPod touch.
If you 4 iPod touches together, they will still work, the screens will not work as one unit, but you get the same footprint as an ipad mini with 4 LEDs , 4 a5 or a6 chips, microphones, etc. and this is possible.( not practical and i just state this as an example)
An oppo 5 with a 5 inch 1920x1080p screen is possible right now. So an 8 inch 2048x1536 isn' t?
I think it is possible. It is just expensive and difficult to manufacture. But technically impossible?
No it isn't ......
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The size of the screen is the very reason why it's so difficult. The backlight in the iPad mini is substantially more powerful than that in the iPhone 4S/5. That means a lot more heat and power consumption. If you look at the display backlight power draw at max brightness and battery capacity of some iDevices you can see why it will be difficult:
iPhone 4S: 0.42 Whr / 6 Whr battery
iPhone 5: ~0.75 Whr / 6 Whr battery
iPad 2: 2.7 Whr / 25 Whr battery
iPad mini: 2.3 Whr / 16 Whr battery
iPad 3: 7 Whr / 42.5 Whr battery
Adding a Retina display on an iPad mini would cause power consumption to shoot up to ~6 Whr, and heat output would become much greater as well. And that's with only a 16 Whr battery. To have similar battery life as it does now it would need a ~40 Whr battery, and at best you could cram a 25 Whr battery in there.
The only way Retina is going to happen on the mini, is if they find a way to reduce power consumption for the display by a substantial amount. Drop it down to ~3.5 Whr and put battery capacity at 25 Whr and that might be okay. Still be a bit heavier and hotter, but it'll be all right.
True dat. Any person that reviews the iPad mini and says the display is good enough, don't worry about it will probably be one of the first to get a retina mini when it gets released.
..and in all of that,where have I said anything will become useless? Try answering without using the word imply and stick to fact
Well Im sorry you spend at least $330 on an iPad thats not worth its value. Also an A5 chip with 512MB of Ram is asking for the same fate as the iPad 1.
You say you don't care now, but be honest with us, there's a part of you that wishes your mini had a retina display. Also, when the retina mini comes out, I know you'll wish you could upgrade (or maybe you will). I understand the size/portability/comfort won you over and you didn't want to wait another year for a proper retina display...if it even takes that long for a retina mini to surface. I'm having this iPad 3 feeling with the first gen iPad mini. I like the mini, but after playing with one at the Apple store for an hour, I couldn't see myself using/owning one without a retina display. I have to wait.
I don't generally trust tech reviewers anymore. Most get their device buys subsidized and don't have to pay out of pocket like the rest of us. Thus they can 'afford' to 'buy' every latest interation of a device to come out. It colors their thinking on long term 3 to 5+ year use considerations.
That is what I have been waiting for, then once retina is on the iPad Mini, order me up a Black 32 GB WiFi please.
And do Nexus 7 has 270,000 Apps designed for it? It is part of Apple marketing PR but it is also the truth. Android maker optimize the hardware design. They bring out device with various resolution and form factor. It work great for some app but terrible for others. And if you are an app developer, you would to change all your image for different display resolution and form factor to make them look good. It is an impossible situation for app developers, so they put out a few versions of their images and just do auto expand for the rest of device resolution. And you end up with a lot of complaint about apps that looks terrible in some device. Apple decide to optimize app experience and make sure their device has only a few variation of display resolution and size to make app design easier. And users end up with more consistent app experience. At the end, users have to decide if the native device experience is more important their app experience.
Exactly! I agree totally! What would be the point of releasing another iPad mini, 6 to 9 months down the track, if it doesnt have any new features.
A lot of people want Retina. Retina should simply be the standard across all devices. If there is a higher standard out there then people are going to want that standard. Why should they/we settle from sub standard!
So if/when Apple release the first Apple TV is it going to be a CRT screen?? LOL
Or CFL back lit LCD?? lol
Or even worse, will it be black and white TV with a colour version planned for the third gen?? Heheheh.
I'm happy to part with my money to buy an iPad Mini, even though I don't really need one. But I wont buy one when I know Apple can give it better specks.
But once the app is Retina based, the GUI is drawn at native resolution and images are scaled. Take the "scaling" options on the Retina MacBooks and how easily they added a smaller one. They could easily do something like 1.5x (see my earlier post) and just scale down elements from iPad Retina apps. 2D scaling down is pretty cheap to do in hardware... You just really don't want to go higher resolutions.