Dr Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies separates the best smartphone, tablet, HDTV and multimedia displays from the worst with his Display Technology Shoot-Out series. So there’s no one more qualified to tell you if that new iPad retina lives up to the hype.
Cramming a QXGA display with a resolution of 2048×1526 into a device as small as the iPad might seem like an impressive accomplishment. But Forth Dimension Displays have managed to squeeze that same number of pixels into a display that’s smaller than an inch.
The new iPad is here. Apple’s new tablet computer has arrived, and its ultra-sharp 2048×1536 retina display is enough to set it apart from anyone else. It’s almost like looking at a glossy magazine page.
Chris Koerner was curious about what the oft-rumoured resolution of the iPad 3′s Retina Display would look like compared to previous iOS devices, so he whipped up a little image that compared each devices’ resolution against each other. The 2048×1536 screen would dwarf everything.
Cheerful Apple spokesman aficionado John Gruber talks about four tweets that, according to him, “may” indicate an incoming Apple hardware upgrade, perhaps the introduction of new Retina Display-level Macs or displays. Given his intimately wet relationship with Apple, you better listen up to his “wishful thinking”.
Not content to limit its crazy dpis to iPhone 4 and iMac, Apple has baked support for “HiDPI display modes” into OS X Lion:
