Retina Display-Equipped iPad 3 to Launch in February?

[Sankersizzle]

GOD DAMMIT, I just ordered an iPad 2 today -_______-".

 

[jca666us]

Sounds good.

Although it should be noted that it WILL be slower than the iPad 2. It'll also take a fair while (1+ year) for most apps to get retina resolutions too for obvious reasons.

Edit: to the 26 people who down voted this, it will be slower because there is currently no faster CPU on offer to Apple than the existing A5. You're all making an assumption that the A6 will be ready, despite most sources saying it wont. You take an iPad 2 and slap a 'retina' screen on it and its got to do 4x the work...thats fact, not opinion.

There's no A6 until Apple announces one.

The ipad3 will smoke the current iPad.

 

[smulji]

Take a look at my updated post. You're assuming the A6 is ready, there are no indications to suggest it is.

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Your artwork is not 'in retina' for one thing 'retina display' is an Apple marketing term for a screen with a high pixel density, not some piece of technology.

You have art work at 320x480 for standard/older iPhone and iTouch models, and then 640x960 for your iPhone4(s) 'retina' display. Thats not the same as having 2048x1536, which is what the iPad retina display would be. So no, you're app isn't ready - you need to add another set of images in there 2x the size of your iPad images, otherwise they will look crummy on the new screen.

For small apps, sure its a days work. For games and apps with lots (i.e 1000+) of images, its a ball ache.

I should've made myself more clear. I'm not assuming the A6 is ready. I'm assuming that Apple will release the iPad 3 only when the A6 is ready. Again, assuming the A6 is based on the next-gen Cortex A15 CPU / Rogue GPU architecture, then we won't see the iPad 3 until summer earliest.

If this rumor is true & Apple releases iPad 3 in February, then I agree with you the iPad 3 will be nothing more than an iPad 2 + Retina Display + 1GB RAM + LTE. It will still retain the A5 processor but shrunk to 28nm or 32nm to improve battery performance.

 

[Bigchef89]

Ipizzle

You guys are awesome with your apple dedication, I'm on a ipad2 I love it so I'm not bashing, but one of the biggest consumer compromises just happened and you feel ok with something new from them? I love anything IT related so I'm not bios, but it seems all my stuff I got from apple was never really field tested I guess? iMac, bad screens hard drives oh and yeah for me I got the one with the messed up logic boards apple wouldn't recall and just throttled down the speeds. I'm pretty good with Linux I know not the same but has apple ever cared about drivers? My log files are like books, and apple told me don't worry that's normal. Business wise they are awesome, but they need to either stay on the phone/pad route or bring back the macs that I used to see that were 3 mortgage payments. And if you bought a iPad2 you didn't mess up this is my computer now I think it's awesome, minus the connections that are coming into it or the data it's sending haha, new screens scare me it didn't happen on my iMac but on this I'm starting to get that yellow tint.

 

[DroidRules]

Agreed. I don't know why you were downvoted. Making a product thicker is very un-Apple. Can you imagine if the engineering team came to Jobs and told him "yeah, just this one problem. The iPad 3 will be thicker than the iPad 2"?

Yeah, they might have a problem asking steve because he's dead..... time to stop asking what steve would do. IF it's thicker but offers better battery life isn't that a good trade off? I mean what are we talking 1-2 mm? If that is that big a deal to you and others that said don't make it thicker than you really have issues, and I don't mean with a thicker iPad 3.

I bought a one when the 2 came out for $300 so I'll prob buy the 3 unless I can get a 2 for the same price. Kids have pretty much taken over our iPad so need one for the adults lol. IF the 2 isn't discounted like the iPad was, I'll pick up the 3.

If Apple does make it thicker to accomadate a better battery to power the Retina display I DOUBT anybody is gonna mind. I mean come on people....and besides, we are talking friggin millimeters thicker. It's not like it's gonna be thick as a brick. Durp!

Guess I should of kept reading before I responded lol.

 

[zigzagg321]

I would not care if the 3 was thicker. If it needs to be thicker to better, so be it.

I know my gf is going to be pissed because she just bought an ipad2 the other day.

 

[jca666us]

Waste of processing power and battery. By increasing the resolution it is going to take more processing capacity devoted to the display and that's going to shorten battery life. I would rather have more processing power and more battery life.

Hmmmm...let's see - if the A6 is more capable and more power efficient, and the display consumes less power, which is rumored to be an IGZO display, then I don't see why battery life or processing power would be diminished at all.

 

[Detlev_73]

I would not care if the 3 was thicker. If it needs to be thicker to better, so be it.

I know my gf is going to be pissed because she just bought an ipad2 the other day.

Didn't you tell her that you are a MR member? Surely you must have mentioned the ongoing developments in the last few months.

 

[iChrist]

Sounds good.

Although it should be noted that it WILL be slower than the iPad 2. It'll also take a fair while (1+ year) for most apps to get retina resolutions too for obvious reasons.

Edit: to the 26 people who down voted this, it will be slower because there is currently no faster CPU on offer to Apple than the existing A5. You're all making an assumption that the A6 will be ready, despite most sources saying it wont. You take an iPad 2 and slap a 'retina' screen on it and its got to do 4x the work...thats fact, not opinion.

Wow, troll can't imagine that Apple will address this simple issue and have chip ready. Go home, we know you from your troll posts.


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GOD DAMMIT, I just ordered an iPad 2 today -_______-".

Ha. Ipad2 is same as ipad1. Why wait so long to get one? Why wait till end of product cycle?

Strange.

 

[smulji]

If history is anything to go by, going from the iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4, there was a bit of a performance hit, at least from a GPU perspective but battery life on the iPhone 4 was much better even with the Retina Display.

So having a Retina Display is no guarantee of worsening battery life. Performance, yes, but again that's assuming Apple sticks with the A5 processor.

 

[happyslayer]

Yay, just sold my iPad2 a little over 7 hours ago! Bought a Kindle Fire to hold me over till iPad3. Very nice! I do hope it's really February.

 

[macgeof]

Things I'd like to see in the iPad 3: Better primary camera with 1080P video. A more of a rectangular design. A built in projector. A built in FM radio, or FM transmitter. The option to use Flash ( We should have the option to use or not to use it )...

Sorry, but Flash on mobile is now on its way out...

http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html

Even if Apple changed their stance, Adobe is pulling mobile Flash Player development, so this just ain't gonna happen

 

[torbjoern]

I would not care if the 3 was thicker. If it needs to be thicker to better, so be it.

I know my gf is going to be pissed because she just bought an ipad2 the other day.

That iPad she bought will still be the same after the update. If retina display is that important to her, she shouldn't have bought the iPad 2.

 

[Jensend]

but it is entirely another story to be able to run a resolution of 2048x1536 on a 10 inch display. To give it some perspective, Apple's 27 inch displays run at 2560x1440 and requires a fairly powerful discrete graphics chip to do so.

The 30" cinema display came out in 2004, and video cards could support two of them.

The iPad 3 will only need to support about one third the resolution that desktops chips from 8 years ago could....

3D gaming will be tough, sure... even the Playstation 3 and XBox 360 only run games such as the Modern Warfare series at 1024 x 600.

 

[mrxak]

I'm new to the whole retina display, only just got it with my new 4S. I am never going back to larger pixel screens on my mobile devices. Never. This thing has spoiled me. Big screens for computers, fine, but I won't be buying any iPad until it has retina. So, hopefully the new one has it. Hopefully also it's lighter and cheaper than the previous models.

If it's all three things, I won't be able to resist. If it's only one or two, I may be waiting for the iPad 4.

 

[torbjoern]

I am never going back to larger pixel screens on my mobile devices. Never. This thing has spoiled me. Big screens for computers, fine, but I won't be buying any iPad until it has retina.

I used to think likewise, but IMO the iPad 2 has a very good display despite its pixel size. I'm hoping to get one for Christmas.

 

[mrklaw]

I want an A6 with 1GB ram. Retina display for kindle app, zinio etc, but letting games choose to run in ipad 1 resolutoin (1024x768) scaled up, to allow them to be even faster and more gorgeous

 

[Lesser Evets]

At this time it is all dependent on the A6 chip's release and development. When the A6 is ready to produce, the iPad3 is ready to roll. February might be a reveal, but I doubt the iPad3 will sell until April or later.

 

[mrklaw]

I think we need to give Apple more credit that they will do more than just slapping a high-res display on an existing ipad and marketing it as is. Once they realise it will run more slowly (as claimed by the 2nd poster), I am sure they will find a way to get around this (I don't know how, not being tech-inclined). The end result should not be any slower than the existing ipad2.

'shouldn't be any slower than ipad 2' isn't a very catchy marketing slogan

Although its possible they push retina this gen, and power next gen (ipad 4), that would be personally disappointing for me as I'm more interested in games than the kind of print type media that would benefit from retina.

 

[usptact]

February? Then it will be released in March.