We’ve been speculating about the details of the new iPad 2 for weeks now – everything from SD Card Slots, Mini DisplayPort’s and now a iPad 2 Retina Display.
More evidence of a iPad Retina Display has come our way and this time it has been outed by a .PNG file located in iBooks 1.2.
A lot of rumors are flying round that the new iPad 2 would come with super high resolution and around 4 times the graphic performance of the iPad.
Well, the thought that the iPad 2 with a 2048 x 1536 is starting to sound less and less like the crazy dream of naive fanboys.
We have more evidence - a .png file has been found in the iBooks 1.2 sources files, dubbed Wood Tile@2x.png. It's sized at 1536 x 800, while the old file was 768×400 - that 2 times in each direction, or 4 times the pixels, for anyone who's counting. Proof? Not really, but we would want to believe.
So can we expect the iPad 2 with a SD Card Slot, Mini DisplayPort and a brand spanking new retina display? We certainly hope so, add these together and you’ve got something that is a serious upgrade from the original iPad – we can only pray these rumours become true.
Via Mac Rumors
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3 thoughts on “iPad 2 Retina Display Outed By iBooks PNG file ?”
Wrong!
A Retina display is a display with 326 pixels per inch.
The iPad screen is 7.75″ x 5.75″.
The old resolution was 1024 × 768
1024/7.75 = 132
768/5.78 = 132
this relates to the official PPI as stated by Apple.
New resolution is stated at being 2048 x 1536
2048/7.75 = 264
1536/5.78 = 265
For a true Retina display the new display would have to be around 2526×1884.
So although it’s not far under the 300ppi that Apple states that a human eye can see, it’s still short so not a true Retina display.
Will I be getting one?
Hell yeah.
totally agree ! Not as good Retina but not far off. And you know if it does materialise it will be called a ‘Retina’ irrelevant of the ppi.
Anyway, who said the retina display is associated with a specific amount of ppi? – it’s a marketing term, the ppi can go up and down depending screen size. All screens pixels gradually get stretched as screens increase in size. So an exact replica over 7.5″ wouldn’t be feasible. Just look at the new 27 iMac 2560
If Apple are going to give us a ipad 2 so early it has to be substantially better. A ‘S’ version wouldn’t cut it.
Their no way it’s not coming with a better res in my opinion- said this over the at electric pig and got shot down straight away – they reckon it will be the same res – certainly not Retina level.
I’ve got the pad and probably would want the new one – but on a journo’s wage this is hard. But throw in 1080p or near to it and it would be hard for me to say no.
Luckily I only went for the cheapest iPad 16GB and no Wi-Fi paid 420. In retrospect you’ll need minimum 32GB – started to see apps well over 1GB – a far cry from Angry Birds.
Add in video and music and 16 GB isn’t near enough, the new for 32 GB will be as much as £600 I think, maybe more. That a hell of a lot of money.
Need to find a buyer for the old one as the feb unveil happens. :)
With regards to your numbers, your right, when I said “Retina” I meant that it would on par with regards to size ‘super high res’ something to get excited about – no one knows the ppi, it’s all hearsay – I agree it probably won’t be as sharp, but it’s a lot better than the current one.
Well, pixels don’t get stretched, they just space them out more.
A pixel has to be square or graphics would look odd and if the square pixel was stretched then it would decrease the number of vertical pixel possible on the screen.
Apple originally stated that the human retina couldn’t discern anything higher than 300ppi and I would guess they went for 326ppi on the iPhone4 because it was the nearest sensible resolution for that particular screen size.
If I got a 24″ 300ppi screen and cut it down to 12″, it would still be 300ppi.
If I cut it down to 1″ or even half an inch, the screen would still be 300ppi.
It’s like driving at 60 miles an hour. Even though you haven’t driven 60 miles or driven for an hour, you can still drive at 60 miles an hour.
The physical size of the screen is only a small part of PPI, mainly it’s about the native resolution that they fit in that space.
Apple have the technology to make 326ppi screens and the overall size is only limited to the substrate size they are printed on. 326ppi iPad screens would be no problem at all. However, bigger screens of higher PPI cost more money.
A true iPad retina display would just be like placing 4x iPhone4 screens together.
Problem with that is the iPhone is more expensive than most of the iPads in their range so it wouldn’t make financial sense for them to go overboard on the iPad2 screen. However, they do need a substantial update to sell the new iPad.
So, a 2x resolution is more likely and I hope they don’t attempt to tout it as a Retina display or there’ll be thousands of idiotically anal number crunchers like myself kicking up a fuss. At least I like Apple products. It’s the anti Apple bloggers (i.e. people who can’t afford Apple products) who get hold of this sort of stuff and just won’t leave you alone. (see antennas and alarms).
I can see an increase to at least full HD and then almost certainly an update to Apple TV 2 to 1080P to match it.
Bring on the iPad2, I’m ready for it.