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

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InvisibleSHIELD. Scratch Proof your iPhone 4!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.”

Full article here.

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.”

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Manny S.” and “Jax44” for the heads up.]

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  3. I prefer no SD card reader. The Dock Connector does everything!
    Keep it simple.

    Why doesn’t Apple make the Camera Kit with ONE adaptor instead of two? I’ve seen a Chinese Dock Connector adaptor that has an SD card slot AND USB port in one. It would be even better if it could charge at the same time!

    I’d like Stereo Speakers! Hell, there’s room for it!

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  4. God you people are stupid.

    “…even if it hurts the margin”
    Apple is a Company. They need to make a profit.

    The things that are coming out of your keyboards. JUST PAY $40 FOR A FREAKING DONGLE. IDIOTS.

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  5. I want a 7″ solid state media deivce to play movies and music, with an sd card slot for movies and wifi so it can get netflix. I want to give it to my kids to keep them occupied on trips. I want to pay $100 for this device. It needs to be durable unlike the the cheap android plastic tablets available. Basically just a diskless version of the dvd players we’ve had for the car for years.

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  7. @ Robertdia

    Apple hardly ever announces new product releases in advance, because doing so will cause many potential customers to wait (for the new model) instead of buying now. The one notable exception was for the original iPhone, which was announced and demonstrated almost six months before release date. But that was perfectly fine, because it was Apple’s first phone, so there was no existing product to disrupt. All it did was freeze sales of competing products for six months and build up demand for iPhone.

    > Apple has not made note of anything like this.

    What would be no “fun.” ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” /> All we got are rumors, leaks from “sources familiar with the situation,” and pure speculation. My guess for release date is last week of March or first week of April, depending on whether Apple wants the first big week of sales to fall into this quarter’s numbers or next quarter’s numbers. Last time, Apple announced and demo’ed iPad a few weeks (more than one month) before release date; that won’t happen this time.

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  8. @lukeskymac…clarify please by ‘apple simply doesn’t work that way’. You mean putting lesser quality screens in it’s consumer and/or entry level machines? Or having subsidized mobile computing devices? ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />

    What I’d like to know is what AT&T will do to the data plans for unsubsidized 1st gen 3g ipads if a subsidized version comes out. If the new 3g version is subsidized, and you have to pay $500 plus twice or thrice for the data plan, I could see a whole lot of v1 folks sitting this version out no matter what it has. If AT&T jacks the unsubsidized rate plan to match, I can see a whole lot of unhappy mobile users….

    …I’m really hoping the subsidized rumor is wrong. But if Apple, and especially the telecoms, see an opportunity to squeeze more cash out of consumers don’t delude yourself into thinking that they’d pass on it.

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