Next iPad with Smaller Bezel, Flat Back, and Wide-Range Speaker?

[Minimoose 360]

you're gonna have to wait some years for that buddy. retina display is just a marketing term for 960x640 resolution on a 3.5 inch screen.

apportioning 960x640 to 10 inches is impossible with current technology.

THANK YOU!

It's a friggin smoke-and-mirrors marketing term.

I see users on this forum rampantly applying the term to other devices, it's appalling. I even saw someone use it to express a fantasy of a higher resolution MacBook screen...

 

[QuarterSwede]

THANK YOU!

It's a friggin smoke-and-mirrors marketing term.

I see users on this forum rampantly applying the term to other devices, it's appalling. I even saw someone use it to express a fantasy of a higher resolution MacBook screen...

While I agree technically, retina can be used to mean any display that has a 300dpi or higher screen. Not that I agree it should be used in that way.

 

[Roessnakhan]

Oh you sexy thing. I'd tap..I mean buy that

You can tap it - after you buy it. ;-)

 

[Jack97]

You guys have it all wrong.
That is not an iPad 2. If you look at the size of the connector and closeness to the speakers and to the edges it clearly cannot be iPad 2.

Based on the size of the connector that is definitely iPad Mini.

It is only an artists impression! *duh*

 

[doctor-don]

So the bezel is being shrunk less than a tenth of an inch on each side? Why / How is this newsworthy?

 

[URFloorMatt]

While I agree technically, retina can be used to mean any display that has a 300dpi or higher screen. Not that I agree it should be used in that way.

It shouldn't be, since the "retina effect" is as much a function of viewing distance as dpi. And since the iPad has a viewing distance closer to a notebook than an iPhone, the dpi need not be nearly as high to produce the same effect.

That's the fundamental flaw in the "iPad can't have a 'retina' display" argument. It can't have a 300 dpi display, but it doesn't need one to produce the same viewing experience.

 

[fabianjj]

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what's up with apple's obsession with ginormous bezels? the iphone, ipad, and new macbook air bezel's are rather large and unsightly. ugh. and please make a 7" ipad.

Well, the iPad's are for a reason. Would iOS do a good job differentiating between incidental bezel touching and intentional touching?

I certainly agree about the Air though. I really hope that at some point it will get the same glass screen with black edges seen in most of the other notebooks. And its bezel is huge: way bigger than my 15" TiBook had ten years ago.

I remember some apple patents a while back to make the bezel touch sensitive, maybe they will implement that to differentiate intentional and unintentional touches