Repair Site Makes iPad 3 Prototype With Rumored Components

all that resolution and you can't even watch "certain films" on it?

Prototype? Where's the new processor?
my a$$.

Who needs all that resolution in such a small screen! Another marketing gimick for the clueless?

high res is perfect for pictures ,but not as useful in rest of the time -12 pixel font is not readable in iPhone(for me) .Display size and contrast matters more to me than pixel size.

You could argue that it is a retina display - because you tend to hold tablets further away than phones.

Remember, 'retina' can't be quantified as a specific PPI level for all devices. It's the level of PPI which is required for the pixels to not be distinguishable by the human eye at the average distance a normal user holds the device in question.

Compare an iPhone 4 display your best 1080p tablet display, if you cannot see the difference you are probably legally blind.

Where are you finding these unreadable fonts on the iPhone? As in, which application?

All the native apps on iPhone are designed to be readable at that size (the resolution is irrelevant because the iPhone can automatically upscale so they are the same size on any iPhone), and on websites you can very easily and quickly zoom in to any size you want?

Of course you can see the difference, but the tablet i also a LOT easier to read than the teeny tiny 3.5" iPhone screen.
There really is no reason for such a high res display in a device that has such a miniscule display area. 960x640 is really not a lot better than even the most average 4"+ phones these days, and doesn't come close to the top of the line phones and middle of the road tablets that can do proper HD.

Screw the tablets. I wanna see 4K resolution monitors.

Hold them at the same distance and the iphone 4 display is still easier to read and the difference is still very noticable.

Which 'top of the line phone' are you referring to which does proper HD?

I think the iPhone 4 display is far far superior in terms of clarity and sharpness to an 'average 4" phone'.

Comparing how easy it is to read on a tablet and a phone is not really about resolution - it's about size. Take two tablets, both the same size. One has 4x the number of pixels. Which one will be clearer? This is why the iPad 3 will be an improvement over the iPad 2 due to its higher resolution - it will be visibly clearer.

In that case, my NS has a retina display, 'cause one can not distinguish individual pixels from the average distance.... Hell, short of first gen screens, almost all phones have retina displays.
I can also read it in full daylight, something the non-s-Amoled screen users can not say. In my book, that beats any claims for high-res out there: "oh, your screen is gorgeous, too bad you have to run for shade to see it!". Yeah...
For the repair shop owners: prepare to be sued into oblivion by Apple's minions. They will find some legal grounds to do that. They sued God for rendering the forbidden fruit in the shape of an apple AND they have a patent for a basic geometric shape. This case should be piece of cake for them.

On most phones, I personally can make out the individual pixels - but not the iPhone 4S. Perhaps you have bad eyesight? The retina display is based on a person with normal eyesight - not you personally.

I have no idea why you are talking about a) phones or b) reading in daylight, since pretty much every phone lets you do that.

If we refer it back to the iPad - the screen gets brighter when the ambient light is brighter, and works perfectly well in daylight. Combine that with a higher resolution and you have an industry leading device (if they make it to these specs). The AMOLED screens have worse performance when the screen is at an angle, not so good if you want to watch something on your iPad with friends/family.

Guessing about Apple suing the repair shop is just trolling.

We're starting with the premise that the rumoured specs are true, and saying 'what if?'..

I don't think it's such a big stretch to say that if the iPad 3 has 4x the number of pixels that the quality of the screen will look better...

so the iphone 3 will have a > 1080x1920 display...
Maybe this will make 2560x1600 displays more poplar and less expensive! yeah right.

What films are you referring to?

lol, exactly. del35 is just trolling all things Apple again. Device is not even out yet and there is no side by side comparisons so he just wants to say something negative to get attention. We all know he is a closet Apple lover..... come on out del35 it is ok ;-)

He is talking about the well known fact that the IPad3's differentiation is supposed the "Retina" display. Don't have to work for Apple. Just have to read 1 or 2 of the thousands of tech sites out there. In order to support high resolution without making everything smaller you have to increase the pixel density. Makes everything much clearer, sharper and more vibrant. I am sure someone will do a comparison between the IPad3 and the competition.

Oh dear!!!!....
is this the OMG of technology?

....rumors ,biased articles,adverts,faked pictures....

Give me an AMOLED screen over this thing any day. For what I would use a tablet for, I'd much rather have truer blacks, better color replication, less power consumption and lower resolution.

Another revolutionary product from apple that just adds the functions from the last model you paid for in the first place, the isheep will be forever trying to keep up will their credit card balance

Apple haters I come to believe not only have no life but no clue as well. Sounds like they are stuck in the 1080p is as good as it gets world to me. I game at 2560 x 1600 res on my desktop and if they can come up with a res that high or close to it on a 9.7 inch screen and be usable I say more power to them.

for me, I have used the iphone 4 and also the HP touchpad, and I can say for sure that video looks better on the HP touchpad even though the ppi is much lower (9.7 inch IPS screen running at 1024x768)

The color quality and calibration is just much better in terms of video quality, (it is closer to a decent HDTV than the iphone 4 is (though both are very far from the color quality of a decent HDTV )

At the average distance you hold a tablet, you wont notice the pixels much especially when watching video.

For me with the iphone 4, I can still see the pixels clearly so to me is is not true retina, but it does make text look very good (when properly zoomed to easier to read levels)

While I don't that a display of 2048x1536 is needed, I would love to have a tablet with it, an if possible I would like a 9.7 inch tablet with a 4K resolution display. It is good to have ample resolution for your content as it allows for a more functional display

For example, if the ipad 3 gets this display, you will be able to zoom-fit most desktop OS under RDP on the ipad screen without having to scroll and still see everything clearly.

Photos will get a more high quality printout look (especially if the view angles remain good)

And it wont really have any downsides because the resolution can be lowered. If a game cant run at 2048x1536, then you can run it at 1024x768 with no problem

It is good to have the resolution there if needed and i hope that someday this will make a move to the desktop PC market. I want a 22 inch 4K display or possibly a 30 inch 8K display.

You said you have used the IPhone 4 (which sounds like you do not own one) and also the HP Touchpad. I have both the IPhone 4 and the HP Touchpad with both WebOS and Cyanogenmod 7 dual booted on it. I have to say, looking at both rights in front of me that what you’re saying is a complete and total lie. No offense but you clearly did not compare both devices side by side at the same time. Also, you are comparing a 3.5inch screen to a 9.7inch screen. If you really did at one point use each one you are probably just enjoying watching a movie on the larger screen which is total understandable. I sense that you are making up the stuff about seeing pixels though. That definitely did not happen unless you had a counterfeit IPhone 4 or something. Also, there is no way to calibrate the Touchpads screen and video playback is only accomplished through the use of a player like Kalimsoft or something.

I am sorry, no offense if you are seeing pixilation on the IPhone 4 screen during video playback it is probably the video itself. On a 3.5 inch screen at 326ppi you have to look through a microscope to see the pixels. The Touchpad has 132 ppi spread out on a 9.7 inch screen.

4K resolution on a 9.7inch display is worthless. You will see no benefit and will probably lay waste to your battery life. Much in the same way that 1080p is pretty much useless for anything less than a 40inch displays. No really way to see the benefit on that screen size. The Retina resolution is not what makes Retina what it is, it is the PPI.

Your way out there with these 4k and 8k displays at the sizes you mentioned.. The day may come when they are available but the unless the PPI is greatly increased and the image sizes go through the roof to support the resolution it will be completely worthless. Do you have any idea how much storage it takes to store a 1 hour film at 4k resolution? We are talking about 4096×3072 resolution here. Let’s not even get into 8k which is basically 4320 progressive. There is a reason why the 4k TV examples are always shown on massive TV’s.