Apple to have Retina Display on the 2012 edition of iPad

The new iPad had been surrounded by a number of speculations and Retina Display had been one of them. However, there is a reason for such beefed up speculation because iPad line is the only one that lacks a RD. One of the best electronic gadgets in the world has been lacking one of the most mesmerizing features that the human kind has laid its eyes on.

Dr. Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate, the world’s leading display and display tuning company, when interview, was the least bit surprised. Soneira wrote: “The next generation iPad will quadruple the number of screen pixels with a resolution of 2048×1536.” This in turn, will indeed give the iPad 3 a Retina Display [because it] does not require the same pixels per inch (ppi) as the iPhone 4 Retina Display because it is typically held much further away from the eye, whose visual sharpness is based on angular resolution rather than linear ppi resolution. The iPad is typically held 15-18 inches away as opposed to the iPhone 4’s 12-15 inches. As a result, to meet the 300 ppi Retina Display specification made by Steve Jobs at WWDC for the iPhone 4, an iPad Retina Display would need only 240 ppi. So an iPad Retina Display could start anywhere above 1862×1397 pixels.”

Still, we don’t have the exact information about who is the vendor of the retina displays. Previously, Sharp had been the vendor but as Apple and the Japanese company have parted ways no one has any idea who will be manufacturing the panels. Soneira speculates, “Sharp is rumored as a supplier for the iPad 3 Retina Display. Sharp’s IGZO is a technology for producing the thin film transistor (TFT) Active Matrix in a display – just like Low Temperature Polysilicon, which is the technology it is competing against in the current iPhone 4. So IGZO could be used to make an IPS display, which has the best Viewing Angles (but they aren’t the often quoted 170+ degrees). My guess is that if Apple uses IGZO it will be IPS because Apple is unlikely to backpedal on Viewing Angle performance.”

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