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So what's the deal with the iPad? It deserves to have this great text fidelity (i.e. insane PPI) just as much as the iPhone. Is the 2nd generation iPad going t
by frou_dh 17y ago
So what's the deal with the iPad? It deserves to have this great text fidelity (i.e. insane PPI) just as much as the iPhone.
Is the 2nd generation iPad going to have a significantly better screen?
- javanix 17y agoProbably because it's far easier to scale up production on a smaller, 4th generation screen than it would be to scale up production on a larger, less established device.
- gfodor 17y ago$500
- DenisM 17y agoAlso, 10 hours of (promised) battery life. more pixels are not only mor expensive to switch, they are also more expensive to render the UI for.
- lukifer 17y agoI would happily pay more for an iPad HD (or whatever). I was (and still am) excited about it as an e-reader++, but print on the iPad looks merely adequate (ie, just like a laptop), not stunning, as I would have expected.
- jeremyw 17y agoThe larger sized your display and the denser your pixels, you're correspondingly fighting a sq cm pixel defect rate and drawing lower yields (^2) for each increase, with the obvious effect on price. This is why, at trade shows, you see huge screens with low resolution and tiny screens of stunning resolution. Further, every time a new technology comes along (e.g. AMOLED), you throw out many of the manufacturing techniques you've developed to increase pixel yields.
- Qz 17y agoObviously that will wait for the fourth generation...
- modeless 17y agoThe graphics hardware can't push enough pixels to render 60 FPS on a high dpi display of that size. Also, more RAM would be required. More RAM and faster graphics => more expensive with shorter battery life.