This rumour was started when someone was poking around the SDK and found images in the Twitter.framework that have a retina-like resolution of 1536×2048. This is far from a confirmation, but we have seen that resolution tossed around before.
Apple may be secretive about a retina display, but its rival and supplier Samsung is embracing the technology. The Korean company recently introduced a retina display for tablets with a 2560×1600 resolution and it looks fantastic. [Techunwrapped via MacRumors]
villainsoft
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 1:54 PMThats fine, just make sure it has enough ram to cope with it. The Ipad2 has barely enough to support high resolution image editing with multiple layers.
ozoneocean
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 2:14 PM“retina” is the new noob word for display sizes, trumping both “megapixel” and “HD”.
Ant
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 4:18 PM“Retina” has nothing to do with display size. It’s a marketing term to do with pixel density.
Steve
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 2:21 PMAHhahaha. I love it when someone says something smartass before realising how dumb it sounds.
‘Retina’ has nothing to do with size, it’s a copyrighted term Apple uses for 300+ ppi displays. When used in any context, it’s just a generic term for comparable pixel-dense displays.
Mark
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 2:27 PMIf only they’d quit shovelling that 4:3 boxy inhuman aspect ratio. So Apple, why aren’t your laptop and desktop screens 4:3??? It’s not 1994 anymore.
It may have been the cheapest way to do it when you first released… and now have locked your devs into 4:3, but upping the res and having old apps stretched to fit is going to look shit anyway. Admit that you got it wrong and just wear that fact that people are going to shout “fragmentation” for 6 months then get on with it. They will do it anyway, you might as well correct a fundimental design error while you’re at it.
olearymo
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 9:36 AMYou don’t use laptops and desktops in portrait orientation, dude. Think about it.
Try using a Xoom or similar 16:9 tablet in portrait. It kinda sucks.
Steve
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 2:23 PMThe honeycomb tablets are used primarily in landscape mode. It’s just a nice benefit that it’s the industry standard 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio.