“On November 10, 2011, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that may reveal some of the changes coming to the iPad 3’s backlighting system,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“This past Monday we learned that Apple is likely to modify LED back-light solutions for next-generation iPads,” Purcher reports. “Today’s patent may provide us with a more in-depth peek into where these modifications may be going. Some think that the iPad launching in Q1 2012 is really just a stepping stone to the iPad 3 that’s destined for a Q4 2012 release. Something like what the iPhone 4S is to the iPhone 5.”
Purcher reports, “In today’s patent, Apple discusses the use of one or two OLED backlighting units in a future iPad. Down the road, other devices adopting multiple OLED backlights may include such devices as the Cinema Display, MacBook Air and – if we hold our breath long enough, maybe an HDTV. For now however, the focus is definitely on a future version of the iPad.”
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The frigin iPad 3 will be so brilliant that it’ll be like my car brights. It’ll be better than a flashlight in the dark if the power goes out. It’ll guide lost ships home. And it’ll make games so damn real I’ll feel like in the damn game. Will we need shades just to be able to read? Okay, it sounds cool, I admit it. I love high quality displays. And Apple’s are really top notch.
Do not forget a searchlight for guide home lost planes and for those Hollywood galas!
People had better brace themselves for an iPad 2S instead of some quantum leap forward. But I’m sure the rumor mill will ratchet up the hype to unbelievable levels again.
At least outer enclosure will be hardly changed: Apple is not going to shrink iPad 2’s thickned 0.2 mm just to beat Samsung’s 8.6 mm thickness purely for PR value. Practically, it is not possible to notice difference in 0.2 mm of thickness.
Whether display will become Retina or not, it remains to be seen.
Inferring that people need to “brace themselves” for an upgrade, instead of some mythical “quantum leap forward”, is EXACTLY the kind of hype you pretend to be protesting.
I (and everyone I know that reads this kind of mindless drivel) am really getting sick of these lame attempts to disparage.
WhenTF in the history of the world has ANY company produced a “quantum leap forward” with every upgrade to a product, and done it every year over said product’s lifetime?
You and your ilk are rapidly losing traction (and credibility) with these thinly veiled attempts at spin. You just look silly.