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Samsung 2560x1600 Tablet LCD Paves Way for iPad Retina Display

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My guess goes for an iPad Pro; in addition toi iPad 2. Better display with a better price aka higher price.
The actual GPU might be already enough to drive the beast. Didn't I read it's 9 times performance of ipad1 ? Should be enough to control "only" four times the amount of pixel.
 
tubbymac said:
I wonder how the Apple vs Samsung lawsuit will affect this. Samsung could just hold this technology for their own tablets out of spite.
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They could hold them or they can actually sell them by putting them in iPads...
 
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"For what it's worth at least two analysts have predicted that the iPad 3 will indeed get a pixel-doubled Retina display."

It's worth 2 cents, and you're probably still getting ripped off.
 
dethmaShine said:
No its not fine.

iPad is supposed to be good at certain tasks:

email - movies - photos - book reading
[-jobs]

2 of these 4 basic tasks require a high quality display. I am not saying that the current display is useless, but if you think that the iPad provides a good reading experience for book/magazine readers and other text oriented apps, then you are mistaken. In my opinion, iPad NEEDS a good, high resolution display which makes the text clearer and easier to read.

Again, not saying that the current iPad is useless in that regard, but it isn't useful either.

[iPad 1st gen here]
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The current screen is more then fine for reading books and magazines.
 
GarethR said:
Surprised there has been so little mention that this display uses the horrid PenTile technology which means not only is the quoted resolution not the panel's true pixel resolution, but it also defeats one the the prime benefits of a retina display in having sharper text.

Whilst I've love to see a retina display on the iPad, I'll take a lower res, but colour accurate IPS display before an over contrasted AMOLED screen using PenTile any day of the week.
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Its a PenTile RGBW screen unlike the PenTile RGBG, so image quality should be higher and it will be have higher luminance at lower power consumption.
 
Lotso said:
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Well, I bet Apple wishes they bumped the resolution on the iPad 2 instead of waiting for the 3.
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You would lose that bet!

1) It isn't available for a while and when it does become available will it be affordable at the prices Apple wants to sell the ipad for?

2) A little bit of thinking would also reveal that Apple would not have sales of apr. 3 BILLION dollars. (About 4.6 million x apr. $ 600 rounded up)

And that's only for one quarter.
 
alexexexex said:
Yeah, and Apple should have released the iPhone 4 in 2006 not 2010. What were they thinking!

and don't get me started on the terrible decision NOT to release the 27" iMac in 1995! It would have killed back then!

;)
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I am still upset that they didn't start out in 1984 with the 27" imac.

They fooled me into buying a 9 inch b/w box with floppies, no HD, no modem, no internet connection and only MacWrite and MacPaint.
No camera and worse of all OSX was missing too.

2,400 dollars no freebies, like imagewriter etc.

Thank god Microsoft launched Multiplan at that time.
 
Engadget is reporting about the Samsung panel, but also that LG will be showing "a full line-up" of "ultra-high resolution" Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching (AH-IPS) products, including 3.5-, 4.5-, 7-, 9.7, 55-, and 84-inch panels, with a "greater number of pixels than the PPI that can be recognized by the human eye at a typical distance".

If that 9.7" panel is 2048x1536, we know where it is heading.
 
These probably still won't be available in large quantities, especially at the quantities that Apple demands.

By the time iPad 3 rolls around they should be able to get the quantities they need to meet demand.
 
guzhogi said:
Question: how many of those people saying that love this on an iPad say that because they want to use a better resolution screen, and how many just want to say "Ooh! It's new!"
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This is getting irritating.
We own both iPhone4s and iPads, and would like to see iPhone4 resolution on the iPads BECAUSE IT IS CLEARLY BETTER. That doesn't mean we can't make do with less on our iPads, we bought and use them, remember? But we know what we talk about, and we know what we want. Feel free to disagree, but unless you use both, you aren't exactly in a better position to judge the differences, nor how it would affect daily usage.
 
appleguy123 said:
It would be a tough decision. Not because I'm in love with Apple products, but because I have so much money invested in iPad apps.
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Display resolution isn't a selling point for me when the OS on the tablet is Honeycomb. I've used a Xoom, and let me tell you, no thanks! I'll be sticking with an iPad here.
 
EntropyQ3 said:
This is getting irritating.
We own both iPhone4s and iPads, and would like to see iPhone4 resolution on the iPads BECAUSE IT IS CLEARLY BETTER. That doesn't mean we can't make do with less on our iPads, we bought and use them, remember? But we know what we talk about, and we know what we want. Feel free to disagree, but unless you use both, you aren't exactly in a better position to judge the differences, nor how it would affect daily usage.
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Just saying that if an iPad comes out with the higher resolution screen, some people posting here seem like they'll spend more time bragging about how they have a higher specced iPad than actually using it. Not saying you, personally, will, but other people seem (I repeat: SEEM) to.
 
EntropyQ3 said:
This is getting irritating.
We own both iPhone4s and iPads, and would like to see iPhone4 resolution on the iPads BECAUSE IT IS CLEARLY BETTER. That doesn't mean we can't make do with less on our iPads, we bought and use them, remember? But we know what we talk about, and we know what we want. Feel free to disagree, but unless you use both, you aren't exactly in a better position to judge the differences, nor how it would affect daily usage.
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I've owned every iPhone, and iPad 1, and now iPad 2. I can honestly say that the display resolution isn't as much a selling point, as is the faster processor, and extra ram. A better display would be excellent but certainly not a deal breaker for me.
 
Jelite said:
Notice how nobody gives a toss about OLED now Retina became the new buzz word.
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Leave it to Apple to push out made up buzz words that have subjective definitions over true technology that has very tangible benefits. ;)

At least OLED actually means something. Retina just means "Hey, it has dense enough pixels that at this subjective "normal" viewing distance you can't distinguish them!"

No to mention OLED and "Retina" aren't talking about the same concept at all...
 
Hal Jordan said:
Gotta love how isheep love to justify retina display on the iphone and how its not needed on the ipad. We all know very well if the ipad2 came with retina display, isheep would be singing from the mountain tops. Absolutely no shame. :confused:
Just give credit where credit is due. Good grief.
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I think you take it wrong. Of course, we'd all love a 300ppi display. It rocks on the iPhone 4. But as an iPad2 owner, it's not like the iPad suffers not having it. It looks as good as my MBP. More is of course better. Who wouldn't sing from the mountain tops with a Retina Display on the iPad?
 
Hal Jordan said:
Exactly what I've been saying. Samsung are true innovators. Super Amoled Plus, PLS, 64 gigabit flash chips using 20nm processes with 400Mbps transfer rate, and the list of truly devastating innovation goes on. Apple can only dream of such true innovations. And Apple is suing Samsung for copying? How pitiful. Samsung has more important things to do like working on the next great innovation that Apple will beg to use in one of their so called "magical" and "innovative" idevices.
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So explain to me then why the entire mobile industry was brought to it's knees by the success of the iPhone, and why every mobile phone company is scrambling to come up with a viable competitor? Also when you finish, please explain to me why the entire mobile, and now pc industry is scrambling frantically to come up with an answer to the iPad? Apple might not manufacture the parts, but it's obvious where the real innovation is here.
 
Popeye206 said:
I think you take it wrong. Of course, we'd all love a 300ppi display. It rocks on the iPhone 4. But as an iPad2 owner, it's not like the iPad suffers not having it. It looks as good as my MBP. More is of course better. Who wouldn't sing from the mountain tops with a Retina Display on the iPad?
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I do generally feel that font rendering isn't as good on the iPad as on my Macbook, maybe with the more powerful CPU/GPU they can improve that with iOS 5.

The current iOS font rendering does however look great on the iPhone 4.
 
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