Apple’s next-gen iPad may feature 2048 × 1536 super high resolution Retina display

15 years ago

Responding to reports of Apple’s next gen iPad’s screen being “super high resolution,” Daring Fireballs’ John Gruber writes, “If the screen is higher resolution, my money is on the same physical size, at 2048 × 1536 resolution. It’s not about reaching some arbitrary pixels-per-inch resolution, but about being exactly double the pixel dimensions of the existing iPad, so that the math for scaling the UI works out. Just like the iPhone 4 — quadruple the pixels in the same physical space. That many pixels on an iPad, though, would require a lot more RAM and one hell of a mobile video card. I hope it’s true, because it’d be beautiful, but I’ll believe it when I see it.”

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Electonista reports, “A handful of discoveries on Saturday may have all but confirmed suspicions of a new iPad with a Retina Display. Both Arizona State University researcher Rafeed Chaudhury and mobile app writer Steve Troughton-Smith found images in both the current iBooks 1.2 and its 1.1 predecessor showing background and bookmark images that fit a “2X” iPad resolution that doesn’t exist before. The wood tile image (below) is 1,536 pixels wide, twice the width of the iPad’s screen, and by extension points to a 2048×1536 display on the future Apple tablet.”