“Market researcher DisplaySearch said today that the average pixel density of tablets will surge next year,” Brooke Crothers reports for CNET.
“The forecast calls for the average resolution of tablet displays to grow to more than 200 pixels per inch (PPI) in the second quarter of 2012, according to David Hsieh, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch,” Crothers reports. “Currently, displays average just shy of 150 PPI. The transition to very-high-resolution 9.7-inch tablet displays will begin with a bang on the iPad 3’s 2048×1536 display likely due in the first quarter of next year. This is expected to have a PPI of 264, twice that of the iPad 2.”
Crothers reports, “DisplaySearch’s Richard Shim said Apple will pretty much eat up all supply of the 9.7-inch 2048×1536 displays. But Apple isn’t the whole story. Android tablet makers dominate the 10.1-inch display size and these will jump to resolutions of 1920×1200 at the high end, according to DisplaySearch.”
MacDailyNews Take: Or, in other words, Android’s “high end” tablets will yet again be inferior to Apple’s revolutionary iPad.
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
Like in real life 10,1 inch is too big.
Speak for yourself. I’ve never had any complaints. :-p
Yes, but were you pitching or catching.
Or a pull-hitter?
“Had” as in made complaints ..
Is there any OS running 10 inch tablets besides android? What an ignorant statement.
If AAPL is taking the bulk of the tablet market, and AMZN’s Fire and Kindlle are sucking the oxygen out of the rest of the market such that the PC makers are rumored to be exiting the tablet space, then how many 10″ displays do they really expect to sell?
“Richard Shim said Apple will pretty much eat up all supply of the 9.7-inch 2048×1536 displays.”
No they won’t. Apple will get them all, as Apple owns the equipment necessary to build those displays.
Obviously, Apple orders such display’s development in the first place, so, as it was with iPhone 4, it will be Apple’s exclusive for significant time.
Dear Santa,
I’d like my Christmas present in March or April, please. I’ve worked really hard and I’ve been a very good boy, so I’d like a an iPad 3. Thank you.
Signed,
ecrabb
Hello there little ecrabb, I ‘m sorry but my elves report a different story about your behaviour!
So I’m sorry, but in March you will be getting either a Playbook or a Dell Streak … Ho Ho Ho
Judas Priest, Santa – I wasn’t THAT bad!!! A little speeding, staying up too late playing games, swearing, and looking at women other than my wife a bit… But, seriously – A Playbook or Dell Streak??!?! I mean, it’s not like I murdered anybody!
Well, I suppose even the North Pole even has to cut back in these economic times, and I hear you can get some darn good deals on them. If that’s what it has to be. I can always put it on Craigslist and then go buy what I really want.
Signed,
ecrabb
Since there is no tablet market, but rather an iPad market… the original article should have read
“Apple’s iPad 3 to usher in pixel-dense iPads”
Damn, I’ll have to resize all my 1024 images to 2048.