Report: iPad 3 to get Retina Displays Supplied by Sharp

264ppi isnt retina >.<
silly marketing terms!

264 ppi is rentia, why? b/c it is magical and apple say so...


LOL

Yeah 264 doesn't seem like a real Retina display. But I guess that sort of thing could happen in the post Jobs era of Apple. Like a 4 inch iPhone with the same resolution yet still a "retina display".

And the 720p Android phones are not "on the Horizon" you could buy a 720p 341 ppi HTC Rezound off Amazon for 1 penny last week!

What dumbass analyst came up with the new resolution? There's no way Apple would QUADROUPE the resolution of the display. If they up the size, it will be to 1440x900 or similar, nothing higher. Anyone who suggests apple will move to such a resolution a 10" device should be laughed out of a job.

"Retina display" is exciting to me
I wish they'd get this pixel density on the desktop, I'd throw down the $$$

i want a sub 700$ 2560x1600 thats quality

What's next Apple? Release iGlasses to read the text on those screens? lol..
Just kidding, I don't really know how that resolution will look on such a small device. I mean my monitor is 22" and I thought 1080 was good enough. :\

^Sorry 24"

Report: iPad3 will be priced at one million dollars for the magical retina display.

I'm really glad apple is pushing high resolution screens on small devices, they look great and they are forcing other manufacturers to also create devices with high resolution screens. Granted the whole retina thing is a marketing gimmick in this instance, a screen that size with that resolution will look great. Hopefully we will start seeing super high pixel density computer displays that will be, hopefully, affordable.

Joytech22: The text and everything else will still be the same physical size, it is now just composed of 4x as many pixels reducing blurriness and/or aliasing.

Also everyone, keep in mind that while 264ppi is less than the iPhone, the iPad is designed to be viewed from further away, so the image quality should be about the same. Apple will need one heck of a GPU to allow Infinity Blade II to run on that at 2048*1536...

Imagine that - a 9.7" tablet screen with resolution higher than high-end laptops. I remember when people said the Retina Display of the iPhone 4 wouldn't be very noticeable when compared to a 3GS - boy were they wrong. You'd have to be blind not to notice how much sharper things look on an iPhone 4, especially text. I can't imagine how good it would look on an iPad sized screen.

All the haters are trying to minimize the simple fact that the GPU in the A5 runs rings around everything out there (except for Tegra 3) by saying stupid things like "what do you need that kind of graphics power in a phone for".

Well, now you know - it's to drive this display in the next iPad.

It will always be an oversized iTouch that doesn't run a real OS or run real software. I'll be getting a W8 tablet next year so while the iSheep will be playing Angry Birds in a higher resolution I'll be getting stuff done running real software.

the more pixels per inch the better. When they get to 500ppi they can start making multi viewer glasses free 3D displays. 4 viewers times 2 eyeballs per viewer equals 8 times the pixels required.

What are you talking about, you putz? The 10.1v has 1280x800 resolution which is NOT FULL HD. FULL HD is 1920x1080. The iPad 3 will be the only tablet capable of displaying FULL HD.

Holy shit, man. That was painful to read.

Computer screens [b]really[/b] need to come out with 4048 by 2K already.

We're waiting.

There goes the battery life down the drain.

That's great news and basically exactly what I was hoping for in the next iPad. Given iPad's bigger screen as compared to iPhone, I think lower than phone pixel density is appropriate and will definitely be a huge improvement over the current tablet stock, including the current iPad.

Apple hater's response to the company putting the highest resolution screen of any tablet maker into their next tablet model is also predictable. You guys called Apple users iSheep, then shut your eyes and refuse to give credit where credit is due.

I challenge you to find one mainstream productivity task which you CAN'T do on an iPad or iPhone. It's unbelievably naive and misinformed to think that there is anything lacking in the productivity side on iPhones / iPads - you clearly just don't have a clue.

"Retina display" is the dumbest marketing notion ever! IMO. First of all the retina is part of the human sight. It captures the image. It doesn't generate it. And the display is on the opposite site. If they say: we have built in a camera with a retina sensor, that would make sense. But "retina display" that's a bullshit!

BTW... do you know that the resolution of the retina is about 4000x4000 (if I'm not mistaken). So Apple's "Retina crap" is not by far of a retina quality.

And even if "retina display" would make any sense. What does it mean? 200dpi, 300dpi, 5000dpi, 100000dpi?

The retina term is intended to represent the resolution, taking into account distance from the eye, at which the retina is unable to distinguish individual pixels, and instead sees a smooth curve.

For a mobile phone, which you hold relatively close to your eyes, the DPI required for the retina not to distinguish pixels is about 300 DPI.

For tablets, since you hold them a bit further back, it's probably around 250 DPI.

The reason this is consistent with your stated retina resolution of 4000 x 4000 is that the iPad or the iPhone don't take up your whole eyesight. If you hold your phone in front of you, it is probably only about 1/50th of your entire field of vision - so it doesn't have to be the full 4,000 x 4,000 on its own.

Hope this helps :-)

And even if it is just a marketing gimmick, that does not make a solid product any weaker.

That resolution is FAR higher than my 24" 1920x1200 display.

And yet, most low/mid-range laptops are still getting crappy 15.6" 1366x768 TN screens... unsuitable even for a movie (as they really distort colors depending on viewing angle).

I hope all this push for betters screens in tablets, brings us serious improvements in computers as well.

Sure thing chief. So what kind of real work would you be doing on your W8 tablet?

I'm betting, Angry Birds, checking facebook and gmail, a bit of porn, more angry birds and checking up on Jersey Shore. Cause those are things that no tablet can do... today.

I'm hoping for a device that I can actually program and debug for on the device itself.

So what content will be displayed at that resolution?

Currently the majority of HD video is 1920x1080, so the extra pixels are a bit of a waste

Displaying photos at that resolution is only 3 and a bit MP, so the pics from the 5MP camera are not enough pixels

I suppose the extra resolution will allow more screen top icons?

Also, and this is the real rub, that resolution is still 4:3 aspect ratio, where is the widescreen aspect that almost every modern video is filmed in, including TV shows, sure the screen will still show the video but either with black bars, cropping or crazy-stretching.

Apple says "Think Different", it's not too late to make the iPad a different aspect ratio, max it out at 1080P and still deliver a major improvement

Microsoft Office

No shit, Retina level on the desktop will change monitors. OSX has now and I believe Windows 8 will have resolution independence which basically means that High resolution does not have to change to size of the icons. Basically just increase the pixel density and make desktop/icon size adjustable through granular user preferences.