My point was that the aspect ratio was taken into consideration more than the panel's diagonal measurement in inches (the # piggie has a hard on about).
It's trivial really....
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My point was that the aspect ratio was taken into consideration more than the panel's diagonal measurement in inches (the # piggie has a hard on about).
It's trivial really....
It is just a size, okay, it is completely random. Nobody has an iPad in his hand and thinks "Why can't it be 10 inches instead of 9.7?". Inch is not like an absolute length unit or something. Someone just needed a 9.7 inch display once, and so Samsung started producing it. And some Designer at Apple thought that this size is just perfect, and so they ordered a few million.
And by the way, people here in Germany are not wondering why their TV has a diagonal size of 106.7 cm. They know, that it is that way, because some idiots overseas are still using completely obscure units for everything. Maybe 9.7 inches are just exactly 100 korean meters. Who knows, who cares.
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As I mentioned in another post, this is not an IGZO part. IGZO will be in iPad 4, mark my words
I rebuke that statement by the authority and the power of Jesus' name!
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Negative!
It's higher-resolution screen or nothing; every else will be gravy. Priorities must be set right!
Lol you made me cry laughing, I was saying the same thing when I saw the iPad 3 home button, i was like oh boy, a home button!
I would agree and say that it is for manufacturing/engineering reasons. Perhaps the pixel size for 9.7 vs. 10 is for one reason or another easier to manufacture, or more common...
Blind guess
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Ah, excellent, the screen looks even more reflective than the iPad 2's. It's not like I wanted to ever use it outside or indoors between the hours of 8am and 6pm anyway.
Typical cycle... all these leaks come out and the forums get all wound up and predict the next [insert device here] will have all the bells and whistles. Let's temper our expectations just this once and assume modest updates.
Or not.... BRING ON RETINA, Siri, LTE, Improved Cams, A6, and Double the RAM!!!
Or not.... BRING ON RETINA, Siri, LTE, Improved Cams, A6, and Double the RAM!!!
A matte layer isn't the only way to deal with reflections. In fact that solution is pretty much obsolete. Nowadays manufacturers are far more likely to apply some type of anti-reflective coating to an otherwise normal "glossy" display. This reduces reflections while keeping the display smooth, and also without muting colors (something conventional matte displays suffer from).
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I expect that it came mostly from Pythagoras' theorum (the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides).
When the designers are setting up their computer aided design files to see if everything will fit in a given volume then the diagonal screen measurement is not of any interest whatsoever, it will be the width, height and depth of total panel component that needs to be entered into the model to determine how much volume it will take up in the case. Also note that the panel assembly will not stop exactly at the corner pixels of the screen, there must be some structure around it to allow it to be mounted, to hold the connectors and backlight, to give it some rigidity, etc. I suspect that if you looked at the overall structure then some round number in mm would be there somewhere on the height, width, or maybe even spacing between the corner mounting holes for the assembly to be bolted to a case.
At this point the designer is done but the marketeers now need to have some way of telling the user how big the screen is so the diagonal screen size is calculated mathematically. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the screen isn't even 9.7", that's just a rounded number that's close enough to use for for a user spec sheet, the actual size is quite possibly an even more random number like 9.7078154", that square rooting required by Pythagoras' theorum can create some messy numbers.
- Julian
This is so true
Like Woody Allen used to say about a certain restaurant at a resort in the Catskills,
The food here is terrible and in such small portions.
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As I mentioned in another post, this is not an IGZO part. IGZO will be in iPad 4, mark my words
I am marking your words right now
Where should I send the I told you so?
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You're good,
But what was the asterisk for?
I think iPad 3 will be like this:
1. Higher resolution display, presumably 2048*1536 pixels
2. A6 processor:
...- Either a quad core 1 GHz processor or a dual core processor clocked between 1 GHz and 2 GHz
...- 1 GB of RAM
...- Improved graphical power
...- Perhaps a fifth (or third) core for low-power actions (like in Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime) [smaller chance]
3. $100 price cut, 16 GB model dropped, 32 GB: $499, 64 GB: $599, new 128 GB: $699
4. Improved front facing camera, FaceTime HD
5. Improved back facing camera (otherwise pictures will be very pixelated when looking at the high resolution display)
6. Bluetooth 4.0
7. GLONASS support in cellular network model
8. Only one cellular network model supporting both GSM and CDMA
9 Similar or better battery life
Now, all the things named above will certainly be added to the third generation iPad. However, there are also some smaller things of which I am not certain at this moment:
1. LTE support
2. Small design changes
3. Camera flash (seems unlikely, but hey, you never know...)
Hopefully, Apple will also add a feature no one is really expecting.
Inspiration
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4:3 aspect ratio with the bezel etc they wanted to use came out to 9.7"
Would make no sense if the iPad 3 got Siri and not the iPad 2 considering the 4S is actually less powerful than the iPad 2.
You see I still don't go along with most peoples thoughts here that Apple planned the size of the device and got a screen and 9.7" was the size they needed to fit.
I believe (as I think only two others here were right) the device was build around the screen.
Any idiot (even my company) can machine out Aluminium, any size, glass is easy to cut.
A video panel and the way it's made will the vastly the controlling factor.