Retina display and cam resolution irt ipad update

[RedPlanet]

Just fiddling with the resolution figures of retina display:
sized to ipad 10 inch screen this is 5mega pixels (2700*1800), which is the resolution of the iPhone 4 back camera... in my view no coincidence. would be nice to see such resolution on update of iPad.

NB Sized to my 24 inch iMac this would be a whopping 6600*4400 pixels which is 30 mp in camera terms. Even a Nikon D3x or canons D1 flagship would not have enough resolution to fill such a screen... (I would like to see the day that such screens are available: 5 years? 10 years?)

jw

 

[Chaszmyr]

Why would you think it's anything more than a coincidence? The iPhone's camera and the iPad's screen really have nothing at all to do with each other.

 

[RobNor]

That sort of resolution on the ipad may be possible but at the moment prohibitably expensive.I would also imagine that a much more power processor would be required to run an ipad with that screen resolution as smoothly as the current one

 

[Jaro65]

That sort of resolution on the ipad may be possible but at the moment prohibitably expensive.I would also imagine that a much more power processor would be required to run an ipad with that screen resolution as smoothly as the current one

Though we'll most likely be there in a year or two.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

Technology improves and that's why we have updates. I wouldn't doubt the next iPad will have higher resolution and a front facing camera. 2nd generation iPad will be everything it should have been in the first place.