It’s a known fact that the first thing our eyes notice when we see anything initially is how beautiful or pleasing to eyes the particular thing is or how brilliantly colored the subject may be. This is due to the fact that the human eyes can perceive and differentiate an almost limitless number of colors in “approximately 15 million variable-resolution pixels per eye”. A staggering number indeed but this simply translates that our eyes can see all the colors of the rainbow, all the beautiful things and more (if you’re not colorblind, that is).
The engineers at Apple are well aware of this fact so it’s a no brainer for them to fully utilize this inherent human quality to come up with the most advance LCD display panel for the upcoming iPad 3.
Long before the iPad 2 was released, ardent fans of Apple’s premier tablet have been longing to feast their eyes on the luscious visuals which Apple initially made available on the iPhone 4 via the Retina Display. With a resolution of 960 x 640 pixels at a 3.5-inch screen dimension, this is the optimum resolution the human eye can perceive. So, when the iPad 2 came out sans a Retina Display, a lot of fans were irked and felt cheated that Apple chose to withold from them what they felt should have been the main selling feature of the iPad 2. But now we all know that the iPad 2 came out without the much-wanted Retina Display because, as Apple explained, the technology back then was just not totally available (yet).
Now comes the annual cycle at the Cupertino Company when the adoring masses are eagerly awaiting the announcement of the next iteration of the iPad, which could probably be called the iPad 3 (duh?!) and it seems that we will finally get what we’ve all been pining for : a Retina Display.
Our friends at this MacRumors were able to get their hands on an LCD panel which purportedly will be used for the iPad 3. Not only were they able to get the LCD Display, they even went out of their way to literally have the panel examined under a powerful microscope to give us the comparative image presented above.
Physically, the acquired panel was the same dimension as that of the first two iPad’s measuring 9.7-inch diagonally but what differentiates this new one is, as the microscope examination revealed, it has double the resolution when compared to the iPad 2. This means that the new panel will indeed have a Retinal Display with a full resoultion of 2048×1536 pixels, exactly double that of the first two iPads which has a resolution of only 1024×768 pixels.
“Extrapolating out, the iPad 3 screen should carry a full resolution of 2048×1536, exactly twice the linear resolution of the iPad 1 and iPad 2 which is 1024×768. Such a screen should be able to display much sharper images as compared to the previous generation iPads.” – From MacRumors
Aside from this good news, and if we’re all that lucky, we may also get a new A6 processor, improved cameras and a longer lasting battery on the iPad 3 as we initially reported to you recently.
Of course we here at Appleslut will always keep you posted on anything and eveything Apple so always stay in touch.
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