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Apple to Announce Second-Generation iPad Within 3-4 Weeks?

Retina Display is a marketing term, NOT a finite resolution.

The next display WILL have a retina display, and it has NOT COMPARABLE to do with the iPhone version.
 
1280x1024 sounds do-able.

EDIT: whoops, I meant 1280x960. I mixed it up with my old fullscreen monitor.
 
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Correction on the last paragraph. It says "Rumors of a new iPod announcement", should probably say iPad.

Anyways, I'm really looking forward to the next iPad.
 
Kevin Rose, looking for attention (as always).

The smart man will not wager on a Kevin Rose Apple prediction.
 
liavman said:
I agree. It will be suicidal for iPad sales to announce a V2 product in early Feb and make it available in March.

We will see the usual macrumors reports of dwindling inventories of iPad everywhere and then SJ's grand announcement of iPad 2 with immediate availability.
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There is a return window so some pre-announcement is warranted along with some discount on the first gen iPad. The discount part I don't see as much though.
 
rickdollar said:
"2560 x 1920 pixels as would be required"
This is why anybody who says the iPad will have a Retina display is a moron.
Not gonna happen for quite some time. That would be amazing, though.
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You know a lot of people thought that 960x640 was impossible on the iPhone as-well.
 
I'm going to need a bigger monitor if I'm going to write apps for a screen of that resolution.
 
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I can see Apple announcing iPad v2 in the next couple of weeks. CES has just closed it's doors and the hottest new product of the show is tablet computers of various dimensions running Android or Blackberry software.
What better way to steal their thunder and to influence perspective buyers? Intro a new Ipad v2!
 
Could be possible

At that resolution, the GPU's framebuffer would be 150MB. (2560x1920x32 bits per byte) / 2048. You'd have to bump up the shared RAM at least to 1GB and have a bus line of 70Gbit/s to achieve reasonal framerate.

Actually, PowerVR SGX 543MP4 can achieve 4Gpixels/s in fillrate so it could be possible.
 
I could see them announcing it before the iPhone 4 release on Verizon if there's going to be an iOS update to talk about. I could also see them announcing it immediately after the Verizon iPhone release to say "Already we've moved X million iPhones to Verizon subscribers."

rickdollar said:
"2560 x 1920 pixels as would be required"
This is why anybody who says the iPad will have a Retina display is a moron.
Not gonna happen for quite some time. That would be amazing, though.
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The iPad 2 will have a resolution that is, at a minimum, HD capable. Best guess based on the ratio of the iPad is 1280x960. It will almost surely be called "retina."

The problem is that the naysayers aren't thinking this through--there's no requirement that the iPad 2 have a 2560x1920 display to be called "retina." Retina can be whatever Apple wants it to be, since retina is meaningless marketing speak. And since the viewing distance of an iPad is much greater than the viewing distance of an iPhone (allowing a lower resolution display to achieve the same "retina" effect), they would be perfectly within their right to call it retina despite not delivering a 2560x1920 pixel display.

This is probably the source of the confusion from the sources. Apple will have a "retina" display on the iPad 2. It will not be 2560x1920, but it will be at least HD capable.
 
URFloorMatt said:
I could see them announcing it before the iPhone 4 release on Verizon if there's going to be an iOS update to talk about. I could also see them announcing it immediately after the Verizon iPhone release to say "Already we've moved X million iPhones to Verizon subscribers."



The iPad 2 will have a resolution that is, at a minimum, HD capable. Best guess based on the ratio of the iPad is 1280x960. It will almost surely be called "retina."

The problem is that the naysayers aren't thinking this through--there's no requirement that the iPad 2 have a 2560x1920 display to be called "retina." Retina can be whatever Apple wants it to be, since retina is meaningless marketing speak. And since the viewing distance of an iPad is much greater than the viewing distance of an iPhone (allowing a lower resolution display to achieve the same "retina" effect), they would be perfectly within their right to call it retina despite not delivering a 2560x1920 pixel display.

This is probably the source of the confusion from the sources. Apple will have a "retina" display on the iPad 2. It will not be 2560x1920, but it will be at least HD capable.
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Actually even though i would agree with you, I highly doubt they'll call anything less then 300 ppi a retina display.
 
GroundLoop said:
Then you should also remember that they were not available until a few months later. It was announced early because it was a new product and developers needed time to create new ipad apps. That is no longer the case with the iPad2.

Expect an announcement no earlier than march.
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Agreed. Once Apple gets rolling their release schedule is pretty regular.

Also, despite wishful thinking, I doubt Apple will be upping the screen resolution so soon. Apple doesn't just change screen every time a new resolution is available. In fact they usually pretty slow and don't update till they are behind, then go for a big jump.

I also don't expect dual core. No hurry on this one.

I expect cameras, more ram, faster processor, and more on the software side.
 
Bytor65 said:
Agreed. Once Apple gets rolling their release schedule is pretty regular.

Also, despite wishful thinking, I doubt Apple will be upping the screen resolution so soon. Apple doesn't just change screen every time a new resolution is available. In fact they usually pretty slow and don't update till they are behind, then go for a big jump.

I also don't expect dual core. No hurry on this one.

I expect cameras, more ram, faster processor, and more on the software side.
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I hope your wrong about the no dual core, in fact if anything that should be the number 1 feature then screen res. If its single core im definitely not buying.
 
I'm betting the entire Verizon announcement next Tuesday is just the iPad 2... if Verizon will get the iPhone this year, it will be at WWDC in June. It fits with the refresh cycles.
 
I'm not betting on a higher res just yet. To me, it would seem very un-Apple if they only used 1024x768 on one generation of the iPad. It would put developers in an awkward situation having to support something with a relatively small (and shrinking) user base compared to v2.

That, and Apple always adds features you REALLY want a year later than requested. **looking at the cameras on my iPod Touch**
 
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This rumor sounds like a load of crap, both on the timing and details. But I'd be super happy with a 1600x1200 display, and even 1280x960 would be a big improvement. The iPad doesn't need to be a "retina" display as defined by Apple with the iPhone, but it definitely can benefit from a resolution bump. Also would like to see a little less light leakage for better contrast (the black levels on the iPad are just "OK").
 
pilotgi said:
If the only features mentioned are the display and cameras, I wonder if that means we will not see a dual core iPad. Seems silly to me not to offer a dual core version.
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What will dual core allow me to do that an existing iPad (or a new iPad with a single core running at higher frequency or with higher IPC due, for example, to out-of-order issue) can't do? As a user, how would I even know the difference?

slicecom said:
I don't see Apple going with a non exponential resolution. All old apps would be blurry. I think they will wait until the iPad 3 to up the resolution, and make it twice that of the existing one.
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I don't think that word means what you think it means.

NewYorkRanger said:
Retina Display is a marketing term, NOT a finite resolution.

The next display WILL have a retina display, and it has NOT COMPARABLE to do with the iPhone version.
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Precisely. An iPad is held further from one's face than an iPhone, hence a dot pitch small enough to result in a retina's inability to resolve individual pixels need not be as small as with an iPhone.
 
it will be Verizon iPad CDMI/WiFi + iPad 4G/WiFi with 3G compatible, iPad Wi-Fi only line will be dropped, you heard it here first! New iPhone 5 released this summer for all telcos around the world incl. verizon.
 
Everybody on Earth that follows a bit Apple iOS devices evolution knows that the next generation iPad will have a higher resolution display and 2 cameras...not a big scoop here. And also, it will have a gyroscope and at least the same power under the hood (CPU and memory) as the iPhone 4.

My prediction wil be more around sync services. I believe the iPad 2 introduction will also see the introduction of cloud syncing from Apple. This big new server farm has to be used for something.
 
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cmaier said:
What will dual core allow me to do that an existing iPad (or a new iPad with a single core running at higher frequency or with higher IPC due, for example, to out-of-order issue) can't do? As a user, how would I even know the difference?
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But it helps nerds sleep at night knowing they have as many cores as their buddies Android tablet. Otherwise they would live in fear of the merciless, uni-core tauning. :D
 
Front Page said:
Rumors of a new iPod announcement come as Verizon is reportedly set to announce next Tuesday that it will begin offering the iPhone, with several reports pointing to an early February date for availability. It is unknown when the second-generation iPad would become unavailable under the scenario of a February 1st introduction, although many observers assume it will be close to the late March-early April timeframe of the original iPad.
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Last paragraph typo? 5th word iPod suppose to be iPad?
 
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