iPad With Retina Display Needed?

[GnillGnoll]

iPad is 130ishdpi, but to technically be considered a retina display (which is RELATIVE to the avg distance from the user's face) it would only need to be about 200dpi, minimum resolution of 1482x1112 if the iPad is an average of 18 inches from the face.

That's a big if. Also I'm not sure it's the average that matters. I do use my iPad at ~12" distance from time to time, and obviously that's when the lack if pixel density becomes most annoying.

 

[dtlee1974]

An iPad with a retina display is very similar to a lifelike fembot that looks like Natalie Portman.....It would sure be nice but isn't technically possible...but you know someone, somewhere is working their nerd ass off to make it happen.

 

[Hunts121]

that was the first thing I noticed when I opened my iPad 2, how much better the iPhone 4's screen is. I mean don't get me wrong the iPad has a high quality screen but the iPhone is simply in a whole different class as far as sharpness and clarity. I think it'd be tough to do that with an iPad sized screen cheaply at this time.

 

[gdeputy]

NO. simply.... NO.

iPad would NOT need to do 2048..

iPad is 130ishdpi, but to technically be considered a retina display (which is RELATIVE to the avg distance from the user's face) it would only need to be about 200dpi, minimum resolution of 1482x1112 if the iPad is an average of 18 inches from the face.
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A resolution of 1600x1200 would be 206dpi MORE than qualifying it as a retina display.

Doubling the current resolution is a bogus and overly expensive notion

Apple's apps WILL NOT scale correctly unless they double the resolution. If they want it to look like iPhone>iPad apps, then yeah, they can use a different resolution, but that makes it painstakingly hard for dev's to update current apps and splits the app market. Doubt apple is interested in that.

So yes, lower res would be retina quality, but it would fragment the current app market.

Then why does my phone have a retina display?

Because your phone is using a low res display that is just very small? the display is small and cheap, thats the truth, its just very very small so it has a great pixel density.

The iPad has a better resolution than the iPhone, it just lacks the PPI because of it's size.

So, in closing, I doubt apple will use a strange resolution that will make all previous apps look like crap

AND

your iPhone doesn't have an incredible display, it just has a nice PPI.